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About local content in Android App
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Description

-about Wikipedia Project
-how to contribute

First filed at: https://github.com/nitobi/Wikipedia/issues/13


Version: 1.0.0 (Android)
Severity: normal

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Reference
bz31456

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:52 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz31456.
  • Bug 31658 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

herman.wong wrote:

Is there a page or standard blurb that should be used for the about and the how to contribute?

This seems like the best "about" page for now http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:About&useformat=mobile. We don't have a mobile contribution page because you can't contribute on mobile devices yet :(

herman.wong wrote:

https://github.com/nitobi/Wikipedia/commit/e08725bad4d227324361b8cd06c91da5311ea509

-added a command to load the about page in the menu.
-also modified the click handler for the W icon so that it returns the user to the Wikipedia main page.

As a user I'd tend to expect the app's "About" menu item to bring up information about the app itself...

(In reply to comment #5)

As a user I'd tend to expect the app's "About" menu item to bring up
information about the app itself...

Mmm. Me too

Having an "About {{sitename}}" wouldn't be a bad idea (ie what's been done here) as an extra