Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Larger suggestions/Wikinews mobile app
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Wikinews mobile app
- Problem: Wikipedia has also launched a mobile app, which also allows a lot of people to use the app to read articles, and since it's a news medium, it's possible that more of our audience can reach it. Some people do prefer to use apps to read news.
- Proposed solution: Start and create a mobile app.
- Who would benefit: The Wikinews community and readers
- More comments: Mobile apps are a good vehicle for reading. People in many different regions are used to reading news articles using mobile apps, which may be easier to design as news websites than encyclopedias. We can also send SMS notifications through mobile applications.
- Phabricator tickets:
- Proposer: Kitabc12345 (talk) 12:20, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
- @Kitabc12345: Developing a mobile app would be out of scope for Community Tech. However, moving it into larger suggestions so people can still vote on it and we can get an idea what the support for this is. Thanks for participating. DWalden (WMF) (talk) 15:23, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
- Maybe this is dumplicate to my proposal. Hehua (talk) 02:53, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
- See my response at Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Larger suggestions/Develop mobile versions for projects like Wikivoyage app#Discussion —(ping on reply)—CX Zoom (A/अ/অ) (let's talk|contribs) 08:36, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
Voting
- Support HoHo3143 (talk) 02:27, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support EpicPupper (talk) 05:39, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Apps for non-Wikipedia projects, please! NMaia (talk) 06:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support AirbusA220 (talk) 07:23, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Muted Red Tulip (talk) 10:14, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support I see this as an idea to improve the existing app, to improve it as a newsreader. Plaga med (talk) 11:48, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Shizhao (talk) 13:59, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 17:50, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support --NGC 54 (talk|contribs) 01:41, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Fvtvr3r (talk) 13:49, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support PtolemyXV (talk) 18:55, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Chetao (talk) 08:31, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Leo067 (talk) 08:40, 13 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Doktor Züm (talk) 07:14, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Aishik Rehman (talk) 08:59, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support IMHO Wikinews needs to be Great and Elegant looking on larger mobile phones and tablets ASAP if it is to make any impact with newer users Zblace (talk) 11:13, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Lousyd (talk) 18:57, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Cryorett (talk) 13:12, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Mbrickn (talk) 03:27, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support β16 - (talk) 14:33, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support MichaelRostom (talk) 23:38, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Qxyz123 (talk) 04:37, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support cyrfaw (talk) 18:10, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Thingofme (talk) 01:59, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
- Support Althair (talk) 04:14, 23 February 2023 (UTC)