We haven't yet thought much about what's the best initial view, but
possibilities include:
Other ideas about relevant articles to display to anticipate user
interests:
- Most read articles by other users recently (to try to surface info
related to recent events)
- Nearby articles
- Watched articles (from watchilst or user read history) that have been
updated recently.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback Oliver! We've heard this issue before and it's
> definitely something to consider.
>
> Note that we're going to start a *complete* overhaul of the Wikipedia
> reader app in a few weeks, so we'll be wanting user feedback like this for
> our design planning!
>
> A faster app launch experience is definitely something we want in the new
> app. We'll be separating many of the user interface components like the
> search bar out of the web view, which should let the search fire up and be
> working much quicker, without waiting on the full web view to initialize
> and render a page.
We haven't yet thought much about what's the best initial view, but
possibilities include:
> * default to the main page (like the current app)
> * show the last-viewed article (like using the web browser)
> * show a quick recently-viewed-stuff list
> * ???
>
> Whether it ends up selectable or not, we definitely want to make sure it's
> *fast* -- the ideal is that you don't care what it loaded up because you
> don't have to wait any extra for it. :)
>
> -- brion
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Oliver Zhu <ollie.zhu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mobile List
>>
>> One of my biggest gripes about the app is the fact that I need to load
>> the front page onto my phone when I open the app up. In my scenario, I will
>> usually pull up the Wikipedia app to look up some facts to settle a
>> friendly discussion; all of my friends who use the app use it similarly.
>>
>> Since I never use the app to *browse* Wikipedia like I do when I'm at
>> home at my desktop computer, there's no use in loading the front page. In
>> fact, it's pretty frustrating when the text I'm typing in the search bar
>> lags, or gets reset as I'm typing my entry, and I'm forced to wait for
the
>> front page to load first. It sort of defeats the purpose of having quick
>> access to Wikipedia, since the alternative would be to open up a browser
>> and go to
wikipedia.org or flip through Google search entries.
>>
>> (I'm using Version 3.3.1 on an iPhone 4 with iOS 7 if that's relevant.)
>>
>> I was curious if there has ever been discussion about adding a setting
>> that would allow the user to see the search bar only instead of the front
>> page when she opens the app.
>>
>> I've already posted about this idea on the Mobile/2013 strategy planning
>> page, but I'm not sure how deep into the idea list people are reading:
>>
>>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/2013_strategy_planning#Option_to_only…
>>
>> Apologies if this is not the appropriate forum to discuss this kind of
>> issue. I just subscribed to this list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Oliver Zhu
>>
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