Signpost Mobile App

The following document describes the design for the Signpost Mobile App.

Rationale
The Signpost is a weekly newsletter from English Wikipedia which is a nice way to keep up to dated on the happenings on enwiki (and sometimes on wikipedia as a whole). However, according to stats, the Signpost gets about 10,000 front page views a month, with about 1,000 talk page subscriptions. The current signpost is also pretty hard to discover on mobile, and the layout is not exactly easy to read. Building a dedicated app to this makes it easier for people to read the signpost when they've 10 minutes waiting for the metro (or 8 hours when sitting bored in class), and also helps introduce it to a wider audience who haven't encountered it before.

Status & Schedule
User:Yuvipanda is working on this in his free time. Expects this to be in beta by middle of August.

App Developement
The app is Android-only (at least for now), and will be developed as a native app (Java) instead of PhoneGap. A scraper based API service (eek!) is also being developed so that the app can talk to a rationalized proper RESTish API for content instead of having to scrape wiki html itself.