[Foundation-l] iPhone Application

Thu Jun 12 16:56:43 UTC 2008

The big problem with editing Wikis on an iPhone is that when you are in the
edit screen, it is essentially impossible to scroll through a large block of
text (I'm not talking about the main page where you can just finger scroll
through it, but after you hit edit, and the text appears in your edit
window). The iPhone's typing interface does not support scrolling,
unfortunately. An iPhone store app, however, potentially gets around this
problem.

-Dan
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Martin Pascal <pmartin at linterweb.com>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> we could help you.
>
> We have a solution wich could put wikipedia articles on mobile phone :
> http://wikiwix.mobi it s just a first step.
>
> We could make it for any project of the fondation and all the language.
>
> We could extract some information to put like this :
> http://wikiwix.com/?timeline=true&lang=en
>
>
> Cordialement
> Martin Pascal
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>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Deni Symonds" <symode09 at hotmail.com>
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 6:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone Application
>
>
> > you can access the net from the iphone but you can also access ebay yet,
> > they have developed an app. This is because, they know when you have apps
> > specifically designed for their site instead of a browser, you can do far
> > more, more efficiently and easier.
> >
> > and like I was saying before, we have nothing to loose.
> >
> > browncat
> >
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:12:15 +0200
> >> From: sterkebak at gmail.com
> >> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone Application
> >>
> >> but can't the iphone just access wikipedia or other project's via wap
> >> or gprs? all other phones can do that also.
> >>
> >> greatzz
> >> huib
> >>
> >> 2008/6/12, Deni Symonds <symode09 at hotmail.com>:
> >> > Well, because a vast majority of all web access on cell phones, and
> >> > because
> >> > of the massive market, I think we definately should.... one of the
> aims
> >> > of
> >> > Wikimedia is to get free educational media onto as many mediums as
> >> > possible.
> >> > We have nothing to loose and therefore I believe we should take a
> >> > serious
> >> > attempt at it.
> >> >
> >> > browncat
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:49:21 +0200
> >> >> From: sterkebak at gmail.com
> >> >> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> >> >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] iPhone Application
> >> >>
> >> >> hello,
> >> >>
> >> >> am i wrong but it is already possible to look at wikipedia with a
> >> >> mobilephone?
> >> >>
> >> >> or do we need a diferent application for the iphone?
> >> >>
> >> >> greatzz,
> >> >> huib
> >> >>
> >> >> 2008/6/12, Deni Symonds <symode09 at hotmail.com>:
> >> >> > Hey everyone!
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > I was just wondering how you think we could try and get an iPhone
> >> >> > application developed. I think the best way would be
> >> >> > to hold a competition and, then try and get apple to donate a
> >> >> > macbook
> >> >> > or iPod touch or something to the winner. Apple has incorporated
> >> >> > Wikipedia's incorporation into OSX in the past and I think it would
> >> >> > have
> >> >> > a
> >> >> > similar position with the iPhone. What do you think?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > cheers
> >> >> >
> >> >> > brown_cat
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
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Dan Rosenthal