Hello all,
This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia
Foundation for August 2018.
Feedback and questions are encouraged.
==Discussions==
=== Apps===
* The Android team has been hard at work on a limited beta test of a
subset of echo notifications in the app, designed to encourage repeat
contributions. [0] Check out the full update on our |project page. [1]
* iOS released a major redesign of the app's Explore feed, adding the
ability to customize the content on your home screen and make it
easier to mix content from across languages. [2] A small follow-up bug
fix update will be released early next week. iOS also made progress on
design research on Wikitext editing: Watch our project page for
updates soon.[3]
=== Web ===
* Web team have begun compiling a list of common problems that they
wrestle with trying to make our content mobile friendly. The end
result is
Recommendations for mobile friendly articles. [4] These are
recommendations not guidelines and some are more feasible/easy to
change then others. We ask that you raise awareness and contribute to
the talk page with any questions, suggestions you have.
*Web has updated the Advanced mobile contributions project page and
shared outcomes from Wikimania interviews. [4]
* We are close to running an A/B test for mobile friendly page issues
- you can get a sneak preview on our staging instance which will
present the new treatment 50% of the time. [5]
=== Reading Infrastructure ===
* Maps
** Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued)
** Added Stretch testing instance (deployment-maps04) to the Beta Cluster
** Upgrading node-mapnik to 3.7.2 (mapnik 3.0.20)
** Posted the August 14, 2018 update on Status of map styles [6]
** Start regenerating low-zoom levels monthly
** Improving tooling for invalidating cached map tiles
*Services
** Ran Android announcement for the new multi-language search and feed
issue in multiple languages
** PCS media endpoint:
*** Updated to be ready for <audio> tags (Previously Parsoid used
<video> tags for audio)
*** Added language code for descriptions and artists
** PCS mobile-html endpoint:
*** Made some improvements in the presentation of the content, but
still more to come
*** Making change to CSS in page library to fix an infobox issue, also
present in the native apps due to infobox collapsing. [7] [8]
** REST Mobile endpoints have been removed from non-Wikipedia projects
(T201103#4490994) [9] (Platform team)
* Other
** (with MediaWiki Platform team) Added support for skin-specific
selector to TemplateStyles
=== New Readers ===
* New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [10]
[0]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features#17_August_2018
[2]
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions
[5]
https://reading-web-staging.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Pharmacovigilance…
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/Status_of_map_styles
[7]
https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-page-library/pull/158
[8]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201381
[9]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201103#4490994
[10]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates
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Yours,
Chris Koerner
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation