Wikimedia Mobile engineering

The Wikimedia Foundation Mobile and Special Projects engineering team is managed by Tomasz Finc and is part of the larger Wikimedia Engineering team. The best way to keep up to date with the team is to check its roadmap or the project updates below.

Current projects

Project	Description	Project lead & team	Status
Wikimedia Apps	[edit] Wikimedia Mobile Applications for iOS, Android, and new platforms	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Yuvi Panda, Jon Robson, Phil Chang & Brion Vibber	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-16) Patrick started work on upgrading the Wikipedia aps to the latest PhoneGap release
Wiki Loves Monuments App	[edit] A mobile app dedicated to Wiki Loves Monuments, targeting the WLM contest in September 2012	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Brion Vibber, Yuvi Panda, Arthur Richards, Phil Chang, Lindsey Smith	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-18) The initial mock-ups were revised based on team input and we are preparing to hand-off the primary app development to Yuvi.
Wikipedia Zero	[edit] Free and zero rated access to Wikipedia through our partners	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Patrick Reilly & Asher	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-02) Patrick has continued to work with Dan about launch related zero issues
Mobile Nav	[edit] A design for optimizing the experience of Wikipedia on mobile devices, in particular within a mobile web browser	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Patrick Reilly, Phil Chang, Brandon Harris, Heather Walls, Brion Vibber, Yuvi Panda, Jon Robson	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-18) Migration of the prototype went to the mobile geo Labs instance this week, and will be deployed to the beta site on Monday. Initial second steps of navigation are functional.
Improved Mobile Device Detection	[edit] Work with the Apache Device Map project to provide a rich set data set of mobile UA's	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Patrick, Tomasz, Diederik	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-14) Patrick and Diederik agreed on setting up a test instance for preliminary data collection
Mobile default for sibling projects	[edit] Migrating our sibling projects to default to their own mobile interfaces	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Arthur, Patrick, Asher	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-23) Arthur filed the relevant RT tickets and Max quickly made the core changes for implementing redirection. Phil started researching best ways of reaching out to the projects that we'll be migration
Mobile support in MediaWiki core	[edit] Building native mobile-device support in MediaWiki by porting critical components of Extension:MobileFrontend to core and building additional functionality as needed.	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Arthur Richards, Patrick Reilly, Max Semenik	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-23) Max added improved, modular device detection support to MW core (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/8350/) and Arthur's updates to HTMLForm are awaiting approval and merging to core (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/6636/)
Mobile QA	[edit] Creating a QA infrastructure for all of our mobile efforts	[edit] Tomasz Finc	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-01) We've narrowed down our candidate list and are doing final interviews.
J2ME App	[edit] An app designed for use on features phones (primarily Nokia Series 40) that enables efficient reading of Wikipedia	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Patrick Reilly, Phil Chang	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-14) We've finalized on a vendor and are completing the contract
Mobile Contact us	[edit] A revised contact us form aimed at mobile devices	[edit] Tomasz Finc & Phil Chang, Arthur Richrds & Jon Robson	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-23) Arthur finished his changes to contact us and we've deployed the first version to production. We'll be collecting feedback over the next week to figure out what other features to add.

On Hold

Project	Description	Project lead & team	Status
GeoData Storage & API	[edit] An extension that allows you to store, retrieve, and quickly query GPS related information from MediaWiki	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Max Semenik	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-03-31) Further development is now pending testing to see how well it works with our apps
Open Street Map	[edit] All things related to OpenStreetMap, Wikimedia, and mobile	[edit] Tomasz Finc,	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-01) All hardware orders have been made and we are blocked on it arriving
Wikipedia over SMS & USSD	[edit] Accessing Wikipedia over SMS & USSD using Vumi	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Patrick Reilly, Max Semenik	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-04-monthly) Patrick Reilly wrapped up work packaging Vumi and we're just waiting on the operations team to install the production system. Next, we'll invite users to test it over Jabber, while we work with our various partners to connect it to mobile phone networks. This will wrap up our initial implementation of this project.
Mobile Photo Upload	[edit] A simple mechanism for users to upload photos from mobile devices, either directly to Commons or via a Wikipedia article or other front-end to Commons	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Patrick Reilly, Phil Chang, Brandon Harris, Heather Walls, Lindsey Smith	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-09) Created a WLM specific project page for uploads. We'll be concentrating all photo upload there for the next three months. After the WLM experiment we'll revisit how we approach uploads within MediaWiki itself

Recently completed projects

Project	Description	Project lead & team	Status
Mobile Frontend	[edit] A PHP extension providing a mobile view for any MediaWiki site	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Patrick Reilly, Phil Chang	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-05-03) We'll no longer be updating this project as all general work on MobileFrontend is complete. All further activity will be in sub project pages like our core migration
UCOSP Spring 2012: Wiktionary mobile app	[edit] Students work on a Wiktionary app for mobile phones.	[edit] Dlemieux, Pfhayes, Shea clare, & Tonyc, Tomasz Finc, Yuvi Panda, Sumana Harihareswara, & Amgine	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-04-monthly) Wiktionary Mobile RC2 is available for download, and we're looking for beta testers for this release candidate. Team members are scattering for the summer term; some will be able to continue work on the Android app, while others are beginning to plan an iOS edition. The project will be featured at the Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education on May 4–5, 2012, in Vancouver, with team members participating in a panel for the Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects.
2011 Wikimedia fundraiser	[edit] Engineering support and development for the 2011 fundraiser of the Wikimedia Foundation	[edit] Tomasz Finc, Arthur Richards, Ryan Kaldari, Katie Horn, James Alexander, Jeff Green, Jeremy Postlethwaite	[edit] [add new] Status: (2012-01-31) After meeting the budget goals, the 2011 Fundraiser was wrapped up in early January, after which the team participated in a two-day retrospective. Work began on the Fundraiser 2011 cleanup, including the addition of recurring donation and auditing support for GlobalCollect. A two-day inception was held for preliminary planning of the 2012 Fundraiser.