Submissions/Wikimedia Mobile
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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2011. |
- Review no.
140
- Title of the submission
Wikimedia Projects on Mobile Devices
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
Presentation
- Author of the submission
Tomasz Finc
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
- Country of origin
USA
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Wikimedia Foundation
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
It's time for the Wikimedia projects to get serious about having a strong presence on mobile devices. This includes features phones, smart phones, tablets , etc. There are huge swaths of people in the world who might not have a direct connection to the internet but do have a cell phone that has some amount of data. Their should be no reason why they shouldn't have Wikipedia and our sister projects available to them in a mobile friendly format.
As a community we decided that we need to focus some of the foundations efforts on mobile and I'd love to give an update on what we've been doing.
We'll be discussing:
- The beginnings of the new mobile technical infrastructures
- Bringing contributions to mobile
- What we've learned from our on the ground research
- What we've learned as a community about mobile
- .. and more
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
Collaboration/Infrastructure
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Likely not
- Slides or further information (optional)
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