Fyi, mobile team :)
@tomasz: If you would like to see this on your desktop: It's available as a Beta Feature called "Hovercards", see: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards
And on mobile in alpha mode: Tap the hamburger menu (3 lines on the top left), click settings and enable the beta mode. Save and do it again and enable experimental mode now. After that you can swipe on an internal link from left to right (or vice versa) and you see a preview :)
Thanks for your great Feedback!
Best,
Florian
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Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Showing article information on tap in Wikipedia mobile app (a thank you)
Hi!
So I'm just going through the latest Wikimedia Foundation quarterly report, and I stumbled on a short passage that mentions a feature of the mobile Wikipedia app that I really, really enjoy using.
The ability to view a link preview when clicking on an article link inside the app is just fantastic. Not only does it save time when you only need to quickly look up a fact, but the way that the app does it is elegant and fast.
I'm using the alpha version of the app on an Android 5.1 smartphone, and the report says it's also in the beta version, but I do hope it will be added to the stable app too :-)
So, to cut a long story short: a huge thank you and please-keep-it-up to the mobile team for implementing this handy little feature :-)
--
Tomasz
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Hi Mobilizers,
1. Do you think it would make sense to develop a Wikipedia app for Kindle,
or to encourage Amazon to do so or financially sponsor its development?
2. Same questions for Windows and Microsoft, especially considering the
Windows 10 launch.
Thanks,
Pine
Dear fellow Android devs,
A quick heads-up that we've updated the folder structure in our Android app
repo to follow Gradle standard structure.[1] This should help get new
Android developers get up to speed with our app code a bit quicker.
It's best to clone the Git repo to a new folder and do a fresh import into
Android Studio. Be mindful of any git stashes or local branches you might
have in your old Git clone. The app hacking guide has been updated to
reflect the new structure.[2]
Cheers,
Bernd
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/229075
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…
moving to mobile-l, and cc Search & Discovery.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:38 PM
Subject: "Morelike" suggestions - the results are in!
To: Internal communication for WMF Reading team <
reading-wmf(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
For the last few weeks, we've had an A/B test in the Android app where we
measure user engagement with the "read more" suggestions that we show at
the bottom of each article. We display three suggestions for further
reading, based on either (A) a plain full-text search query based on the
title of the current article, or (B) a query using the "morelike" feature
in CirrusSearch.
And the winner is... (perhaps not entirely surprisingly) "morelike"! Users
who saw suggestions based on "morelike" were over 20% more likely to click
on one of the suggestions.
Here's a quick analysis and chart of the data from the last 10 days:
*https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BFsrAcPgexQyNVemmJ3k3IX5rtPvJ_5vdYOyGgS5R6Y/edit?usp=sharing
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BFsrAcPgexQyNVemmJ3k3IX5rtPvJ_5vdYO…>*
-Dmitry
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The Android team[0] is perfectly happy to announce a new Wikipedia
Android app beta release, v2.0.107-beta-2015-08-03[1]. In 499
characters[2], this revision contains the following enhancements:
* New! List of tabs is saved when the app closes for any reason
* New! Table-of-contents button hides itself when not scrolling
* New! Material design enhancements to navigation pane, user messages,
and other UI elements
* New! More places to press-and-hold to open in a new tab: Search!
Nearby! Similar pages! Read More!
* Newly opened tabs now appear behind the active tab
* Neutral toned splash background keeps app launches subtle in dark mode
* Full user roll-out of improved suggested articles
Make it better! Read our getting started guide[3]. We cannot wait for
your contributions!
-The Wikimedia Android team
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team#Android_App
[1] Rolling out at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta
[2] A complete list of changes is available at
http://git.wikimedia.org/commits/apps%2Fandroid%2Fwikipedia/beta%2F2.0.106-…
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…