Talk:Emerging strategic priorities/ESP 1 key questions/What form factors and platforms should Wikimedia consider in a highly mobile-use population?

What should we do to ensure our materials are available to the growing number of people who access the internet only through mobile devices? #reach

Still the Bandwidth is very expensive in India ..GPRS or ISP connections,and speed is the second factor , the dominant platforms is Java enabled mobiles,(smart phones,netbooks and noteboooks )often used ..so the design of the system to work in low band width and the speed is more suitable for India .. सरोज कुमार ढकाल 16:49, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Light-weight, text-only edition. More intelligent caching. ****Podcast-type user-to-user sharing****

अभय नातू 02:31, 2 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not only for mobile access, but simply for rural access, provide a way to access with low bandwidth seems necessary. Image's and animation's volume should be reduced, even if this occurs quality lost. The W3C has recommandations for web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 2.0) and, consequently, mobile web best pratices (MWBP 1.0)... an AAA level seems realistic to me. -- Eric Schreiner ^(talk) 12:48, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You can instruct your browser to load images only on demand; isn't that sufficient? --Fasten 14:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The reasons that lead someone to navigate wiki articles are of different natures: just chek something, deepen a topic, or try to understand some reference, and so on. Between no image at all, and heavy images or animations, is there no solutions ? Furthermore on devices with small screen, having or not some zooming capabilities, high definition isn't useful. Don't forget that, for many people, mobile phone is the unique way to access web content. -- Eric Schreiner ^(talk) 16:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Practically everybody. --Fasten 17:10, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

What use has educational content on a mobile phone? I wouldn't want to read Wikipedia articles even on a small netbook. What difference is there if you read Wikipedia on a large laptop screen using a mobile network? --Fasten 14:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, maybe for the "mobile users", well I recommend the factors 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 --Fasten 15:01, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Probably availability of wiktionary on mobile will help a lot in multilingual country ilke India at all levels and specialy so to all translators can contribute online dictionary will be a good Idea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahitgar (talk • contribs) --Fasten 09:25, 29 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]