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Working at Nokia as MeeGo advocate and interested in contributing to the Wikimedia projects on Mobile stuff. A first mission could be to push the development of a Qt Quick app for MeeGo and Symbian devices.

Some lousy thoughts while I put some order in this page:

w:Help:Mobile_access shows an interesting table of no less than 36 Wikipedia based apps for the iPhone. Some excellent (like Wikihood, which is the one the friend that lent me an iPhone uses all the time, pretty cool), some probably less impressive. But *none* of them able to edit or (apparently) bring any significant contribution to the Wikimedia projects other than hits and traffic.

So, I believe that our future Qt app for Wikipedia should actually concentrate on what is more likely to benefit the Wikipedia project and what is also less likely that third party developers will focus on: contributions.

We need to have a prioritized list of simple features, implying one hand use and simple or no typing. A first attempt:


 * "Share this" like WikiNews does.
 * Watch an article - simple way to get readers progressively involved.
 * Patrol a new article - could be suggested by the app.
 * Geotag an article - maybe there is a way to offer suggestions.
 * Assess the relevance / importance of an article - app could suggest
 * Upload and embed a picture to a page - implementation might be tricky.
 * Add a comment in the discussion page - rather than applying templates directly.
 * Let SuggestBot to suggest me a mobile task - (with some fine tuning of the bot this could be a stand-alone mobile app in itself)
 * Spellchecking - highly automated, engine tbd.

Something against vandalism would be nice? Although the implementation might be tricky since there is not 100% automatic cure.

Same about categorization, notability and dead-end pages. Fixing them right is not simple and mobile, casual edits can cause more pain than healing.

More features could be extracted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_backlog

There is also low level hanging fruit in the Community Portal: learn more about Wikipedia, Things to do, RSS feed of The Signpost...

Out of Wikipedia, Wikinews feed + rating looks also like a perfect match.

I have more ideas, but I rather focus the scope and concentrate on the implementation of top 3 features to start with.