Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Larger suggestions/Native Wiktionary mobile application

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Native Wiktionary mobile application

Problem: While wiktionary is very needed on smartphones, there is no application for it
Proposed solution: Create native phone application (iPhone and Android)
Who would benefit: Smartphone users
More comments: Wikipedia app is pretty successful, and Wiktionary can be also handy. In some sense it may be even more useful.
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Skirienko (talk) 08:16, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Sadly, it is in the list of never happen. I support your views, but I think the board of WMF do not even now what a Wiktionary is, who are the readers or contributors, its potentialities. Noé (talk) 11:26, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I understand your feelings, @Noé. The reason why this idea is on the list you pointed at is strictly related to Community Tech. This team is not able to build (and later, maintain) such big projects. However, having this need in writing yet another time is valuable! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 20:59, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This is the same as Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Wiktionary/Wiktionnaire_pour_smartphone. --Izno (talk) 02:48, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed, we can't afford to create and maintain a mobile app from scratch, much less two, but this is a great idea and deserves attention so I'm moving it to our Larger suggestions category. Thanks for participating in the survey, MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 00:10, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This is IMO unlikely to happen as long as Wiktionary is wikitext-based. Trying to use wikitext as a database is a huge development burden and makes almost anything beyond just displaying the pages infeasible. A transition to Lexeme would make this a realistic project (although probably still too large for Community Tech). --Tgr (talk) 01:07, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
It doesn't has to have any "magical" beahivour. Most webapps are glorified webpages after all. --Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 19:40, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support Expressing interest even if it's not doable in this survey. Eviolite (talk) 02:08, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Texttramp (talk) 03:41, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JopkeB (talk) 07:37, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 18:34, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support TheInternetGnome (talk) 08:56, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ignacio Rodríguez (talk) 19:39, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Syced (talk) 10:52, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arturoborrero (talk) 13:44, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ninepointturn (talk) 16:55, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:53, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Exilexi (talk) 18:12, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support I think this would be a good reason to focuse on lexicographical data on Wikidata. --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 06:02, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 20:20, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Bikepunk2 (talk) 22:45, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Languageseeker (talk) 04:50, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jl sg (talk) 09:04, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]