Reading/Mobile Friendly Content/Project Status

About
This page is designed to keep stakeholders updated on the status of efforts to make Wikipedia content more mobile friendly. This process was borne of cross-team discussions within the WMF in order to understand the problem (with a few known, interested parties asked to attend), but there is no reason this process or programs within it should be limited to WMFers. One of the bullet points here is to work more closely with community on this moving forward.
 * Purpose, agenda and notes:  https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mobile_friendly_content
 * Some demoed issues: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j2kBb7WAaEyjMs9o2ulZpdfJAYzsrrDptxpbK8virAc/edit#slide=id.p

Current Status
Overall:
 * 1) We are going to focus on general template styling capabilities (rather than specific issues like tables, media and hovers) by allowing and promoting device-level styling in templates.
 * 2) This is not immediately in conflict with semantic markup--as that can't possibly cover all of the use cases.  This will cover all and then semantic can cover high-profile instances like infobxes.
 * 3) Using template styles, we are going to focus on specific issue like "signpost" first and fix it and then learn from that (as oppose to starting with broad approaches or broad research)

Next steps:
 * Template Css update - community is doing this, we help ensure it gets merged/deployed  (Jon R to own helping shepherd)
 * Best practices and documentation (Nirzar to own)
 * Programmatic outreach (Toby and Moushira)
 * Down the line: Add a preview that generates awareness (Trevor to own). It is possible that a preview might fit well into other plans
 * Monthly meetings with optional attendees to continue for now, primarily as a check-in

May 12th, 2016
Present: Toby, Gergo, Trevor, Josh, Dmitry, Bernd, Jon K, Jon R, Moushira, Adam, DJ, Nirzar

Just following up on last week's meeting on mobile content presentation. We quickly reviewed the results of last meeting and jumped right into decision-making. Awesome.

The usual links:
 * Purpose, agenda and notes:  https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mobile_friendly_content
 * Some demoed issues:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j2kBb7WAaEyjMs9o2ulZpdfJAYzsrrDptxpbK8virAc/edit#slide=id.p

Overall:
 * 1) We are going to focus on general template styling capabilities (rather than specific issues like tables and hovers) by allowing and promoting device-level styling in templates.
 * 2) This is not immediately in conflict with semantic markup--as that can't possibly cover all of the use cases.  This will cover all and then semantic can cover high-profile instances like infobxes.
 * 3) Using template styles, we are going to focus on specific issue like "signpost" first and fix it and then learn from that (as oppose to starting with broad approaches or broad research)

Next steps:
 * Template Css update - community is doing this, we help ensure it gets merged/deployed  (Jon R to own helping shepherd)
 * Best practices and documentation (Nirzar to own)
 * Programmatic outreach (Toby and Moushira)
 * Meeting set up with CE 5/26
 * Down the line: Add a preview that generates awareness (Trevor to own). It is possible that a preview might fit well into other plans
 * Monthly meetings with optional attendees to continue for now, primarily as a check-in

Misc

Since the meeting, 2 things have come up:
 * 1) The DJ posted this in our meeting notes:  Post meeting Idea:  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T483#2289858  by DJ
 * 2) Josh raised the ideas that we should think of this the way that governments and NGO's approach public health initiatives where the technical solution is really just the beginning and the real challenge is culture change, since we lack mandate or manpower for anything else.  An excerpt of the analogy below:

April 7th, 2016
Present: Toby, Gergo, Trevor, Marius, Dmitry, Bernd, Jon K, Jon R, Moushira, Adam

Thanks to those of you who made it to the meeting on Thursday to discuss how content is displayed on mobile. For those who didn't our meeting notes are here: The purpose was to identify the problems impacting mobile presentation of content, to identify the possible solution set and to surface any disagreements. We seemed to feel that the solution set seemed to represent what the group had come up with to date, but that we should really talk to key stakeoholders (editors and template editors) before moving forward.
 * Purpose, Agenda and notes:  https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/mobile_friendly_content
 * Some demoed issues, please add more:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1j2kBb7WAaEyjMs9o2ulZpdfJAYzsrrDptxpbK8virAc/edit#slide=id.p

The next steps, as identified in the meeting, are:


 * Map out problems and solutions for digestions and post them on Mediawiki (JK to coordinate)
 * Expand discussion/research
 * editor engagement (Moushira and JK), template-editor engagement, tech discussion
 * reader research
 * Logistics
 * Meet in a month (decide then if we want more monthly) (JK to setup)