Wikimedia Mobile engineering/Features

This page is intended as a whiteboard for collecting feature ideas and taking a first step at organizing them.

Imminent:
 * Search suggestions (19956) – developed by a user, will be released soon
 * Inter-wiki language links (19834) – main request from new mobile gateway feedback

India and Brazil research:
 * Summaries
 * More media
 * Editing
 * Language detection
 * Handset detection (already implemented)

Internal grab bag:
 * Article rating as entry into annotation and editing
 * Annotation, private or public, separate from discussions and as entry into editing
 * Citation entry by photo of book - see brainstorm page
 * Articles near me missing photos, and photo upload
 * Add GPS coordinates within a location-related category, link up with desktop to refine
 * Curating photos
 * Enlarge/reduce text easily (such as by number keys), with reflow
 * Dynamic header/search width to fit multiple screens
 * Voice input search, aka Apple demo (possibly no work required)

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile_site_rewrite/Testing


 * Move “Mobile View” to top
 * Reduce line-height
 * Keys for navigation
 * Content lists non-touch
 * Thumbnail to screen width, or inline if screen is more than 300 pixels wide
 * Mobile editing UI
 * Change table.metadata to metadata

Bugzilla


 * Give projects the opportunity to add mobile specific JS/CSS 	22659	high


 * Add geolocation functionality to MobileFrontend to support Articles near me 	19920	high


 * Font sizes preference for Wikipedia Mobile	19921	high


 * "Find" function for Wikipedia Mobile 	20146	medium


 * Support language variants (different language interfaces - same wikipedia) 	21806	medium


 * Reformatting of Portals (multiple columns formatting too wide)	22187	high


 * Display the categories 	22660	not sure


 * Log in and "watched articles" list in Wikipedia Mobile 	24387	medium


 * Dynamic fonts support in mobile gateway 	28515	high - India


 * Option to permanently see mobile frontend from PC render 	29503 	low


 * Support for collapsed infoboxes and tables in Mobile 	29504	difficult


 * Distinguish external links from internal links. 	30831	medium


 * Random button for Wikisource 	30902	low


 * Cleanup duplicate CSS for mobile devices 	31050	medium (good idea)


 * Did you mean corrections for search 	29560	high


 * Wikipedia.org should detect mobile browser and locale	28815	medium (if not already implemented)


 * Links to page history don't surface actual revisions 	29387 not sure


 * Keep home-random menu expanded after clicking random 	30842 medium


 * Add "e-mail to friends" functionality to MobileFrontend (prefill email)	24359	high – how about SMS