Comments on: Announcing the Official Wikipedia Android App http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-android-app/ News from the Wikimedia Foundation and about the Wikimedia movement Fri, 24 May 2013 00:39:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6-beta2-24176 By: Tomasz http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-android-app/comment-page-1/#comment-91698 Tomasz Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:00:51 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=9256#comment-91698 @Jonathan Stark: There was an community debate wether we should bother at all. Long and short of it was that our users deserve to have a choice of a great Wikipedia browsing experience that is add free and supports basic features on their Android devices. People ware paying to not have to see ads and to have basic features like saving an article to their phone. We thought this was a bit silly given that you don’t have to pay anything to do this on a desktop when browsing Wikipedia.

Alongside this there are numerous carriers that we work with who are eager to install an official app on devices that they release.

Lastly it lets us prototype, test, and experiment much faster then our normal MediaWiki pipeline allows. Plus its just fun to experiment with.

We should have some stats on app vs mobile web traffic in a couple of weeks.

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]]> By: Jonathan Stark http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-android-app/comment-page-1/#comment-78428 Jonathan Stark Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:43:20 +0000 http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=9256#comment-78428 Congrats on the release! And I applaud your use of open web technologies + PhoneGap (now called Apache Cordova, I’m told).

I’m curious whether there was an internal debate over whether to develop an app store app at all and what the reasoning was. I assume it was a question of discovery but it’d be interesting to know.

Also wondering what effect all those native app download have had on your mobile traffic, in particular whether it’s all incremental or has canabalized your mobile web traffic at all.

Cheers!
j

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