Last modified: 2012-02-24 02:52:06 UTC
The app has a menu item called About which currently links to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:About. However, the actual name of that page is different in different languages, and so it can cause the About disambiguation page appear in a particular language - for example, in Serbian, Macedonian, Croatian, Russian and Bulgarian. In Polish, it causes a 404 error - for some reason disambiguation is not called, and even more strangely, there is a Wikipedia:About page in Polish. A better way to implement this is to navigate the inter-wiki link for a particular language. In the case where there is none, we need a graphic stating the page does not exist. The text of that error page could read: "Sorry, there is no About page in this language. Click here to read the page in English?"
No question mark at the end of the message, i.e., "Click here to read the page in English."
There is no equivalent of Wikipedia:About in a *lot* of languages (see Interwiki of en:Wikipedia:About). I think we should skip Wikipedia:About here, and just have an 'about the app' screen, *not* 'about Wikipedia'.
*** Bug 32914 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We are turning this into a standard "app about." Here is the language to show: Put app icon at top Version 1.0 Wikimedia Foundation logo Creative Commons License info? EULA?
Here is what the page should say and look like: Wikipedia icon Version 1.0 Wikimedia Foundation logo This application is copyright (C) Wikimedia Foundation and contributing developers. This application is free software under the GNU General Public License. You are welcome to distribute and modify it under certain conditions. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html for details. The source code is available at: https://github.com/Wikimedia/WikipediaMobile
Created attachment 9817 [details] Page layout Here is a layout option.
Created attachment 9818 [details] WMF logo PNG of the WMF logo
(In reply to comment #5) > Wikimedia Foundation logo > > This application is copyright (C) Wikimedia Foundation and > contributing developers. I don't think this would be appropriate. Is this kind of language ever used anywhere on Wikimedia projects? > This application is free software under the GNU General Public > License. You are welcome to distribute and modify it under certain > conditions. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html > for details. The source code is available at: > https://github.com/Wikimedia/WikipediaMobile I don't really understand this. The whole point of rewriting the mobile site was to (a) get it off Ruby; (b) get it back into the normal code repo/normal code review; and (c) be less Wikipedia-specific. Has the second goal been completely abandoned? Isn't most of the code in SVN now? Regarding the third goal, the most recent author seems to have dramatically missed the mark. I'm glad someone's finally noticing that the entire extension is Wikipedia-specific, but I think there really ought to be a tracking bug. Broadly, the entire project should be re-considered, but that's not really a topic for Bugzilla/this bug.
@MZMcBride: This is for the Wikipedia Mobile app, not for the MobileFrontend Extension.
(In reply to comment #9) > @MZMcBride: This is for the Wikipedia Mobile app, not for the MobileFrontend > Extension. Well, fair enough. A bit confusing, though.
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > @MZMcBride: This is for the Wikipedia Mobile app, not for the MobileFrontend > > Extension. > > Well, fair enough. > > A bit confusing, though. This is what we have as the description for bugs filed here : 'Wikipedia mobile Android application - https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile' Let us know if we can make it any more clear.
(In reply to comment #11) > This is what we have as the description for bugs filed here : > > 'Wikipedia mobile Android application - > https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile' > > Let us know if we can make it any more clear. The entire Wikimedia mobile project makes absolutely no sense to me. It seems to regularly include hiring outside contractors who build Wikipedia-specific apps and code that's eventually determined to be less than ideal and then the project is restarted. I didn't realize Wikimedia was officially supporting an Android app. Or that Patrick Reilly was working on such. That was my confusion.
Have sent a pull request. Need to finalize proper Icon to use.
