Hello all

A new update (v.1.4.0) of the Wikisource Reader mobile application https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cis_india.wsreader is now released for Android users at the Google Play Store.

Here are the updates:

Bugs resolved:

- T409626 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409626: - The labels of the languages in the language screens were not displayed properly in different locales. - T413429 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413429: - The names of the authors were not displayed in interface languages - T409405 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409405: - The strings and icons at the top icons were overlapping with each other - T409625 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409625: - The icon denoting year of publication was confusing - T413861 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413861: - Locales were duplicate and different for different users. - T413562 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413562: - Slash screen logo of Wikisource was not ideal

New features:

- T409624 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409624: - Use interactive progress bar at the bottom of the book reading screen - T408285 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408285: - Refresh or update a book without deleting and downloading again - T414563 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414563: - Thumbnails are now visible in the library section. - T406245 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406245: - More bibliographic metadata is displayed in the book details screen

Other relevant updates:

- You can translate the interface of the app in your language from here: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:Wikisource_Reader - We are also working on analytics of book search and download, the first look of which is recently made live here https://wsindex.toolforge.org/analytics/ - Technical documentation for both the app and the API is being created here https://cis-india.github.io/wikisource-reader-app/documentation.html and will be improved gardually - You can report existing bugs or request for new features related to the app in this Phabricator workboard https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/8233/query/all/ - T408915 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408915: Epubs generated for Bangla and French Wikisource projects had unwanted lines due to recent Parsoid updates, which negatively affected the books in the app for these two languages. It has been disabled temporarily for Proofreadpage extension to use Parsoid, which has resolved this issue for now. - We faced an issue recently to update the list of books. After investigation, we have decided to filter out those Wikidata items, which contain more than one P1957 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957 like this one https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19489053 (i.e. more than one editions clumped together in one item). When they will be split in separate items following the correct data model, they will be automatically displayed on the app, as usual.

We sincerely thank Levy Muguro https://levymuguro.hashnode.dev/new-outreachy-intern, a full stack developer from Kenya, who is behind majority of our recent updates as part of his internship at the Outreachy. His Outreachy contributions can be tracked from here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405593 .

Regards, Sai Phanindra and Bodhisattwa (both as volunteer capacity)