To give the widgets a better chance of discovery for new downloaders and people who don't have auto-updates turned on, could the Description and, for the release introducing the widget, the What's New metadata fields reference the widgets? I was thinking it might be interesting to silently have them in place to see what the uptake is, and then follow that with explicitly calling them out later to see what the impact might be.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Yeah, the problem with widgets is that they're not very discoverable.  A more worthwhile effort might be to integrate better with Google Now, so that our content would be exposed whenever the user performs any kind of search from the device.



On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 4:56 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry@wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 19 February 2015 at 14:15, Tomasz Finc <tfinc@wikimedia.org> wrote:
How difficult would it be to allow the feature article widget to be
resizable so that we can showcase a snippet of text and an image?

I'm glad you like the widgets!

Before investing any more resources into widgets, we'll need to see how much they're used relative to our other features. We suspect that they will not be used much, but chose to prioritise getting them out because Dmitry already had a proof of concept patch ready which just needed some minor design polishing.

Dan

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