I was wondering if there has been any analysis on the types of
browsers that users use to access MediaWiki sites. I've been working
on the MobileFrontend extension and am keen to understand the audience
better. I've had a look around the internet but it's a big place and
I've not found anything yet. :)
In particular I was interested if there is any evidence that certain
people in certain countries use Wikipedia's/other mediawiki instance
mobile site on desktop computers due to the lower page size/load and
what browsers they use to do this.
Grateful for any light that can be shed on this subject.
Thanks in advance!
Jon
--
Jon Robson
Heya everyone!
Since the rollout of our official Wikipedia Android application, we've
been working on providing the same experience for our iOS users. Were
happy to announce that we've polished off our beta enough for you to
try a total reboot of our iOS app.
For those that just want to get going download it from here, drag into
iTunes, and sync.
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/iOS/Wikipedia-3.1beta1.ipa (MD5
4b0c309753cde4da3f4516d4a4952773)
NOTE: If you haven't given us your UDID then this IPA will NOT work
for you. We need to have your IPA before we build a new version in
order for it to work. If your try the IPA and find that it wont
install then follow these instructions and then send us your UDID
http://www.innerfence.com/howto/find-iphone-unique-device-identifier-udid
Load it up on your iOS devices (iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad) and use
it as you normally would. Features you should particularly test are:
1. Lack of crashes! This is our most requested feature from the
current app in the market, and we are glad to oblige. The new app does
not crash when you look at it the wrong way. Please try various ways
of crashing the app, and report your success/failure to do so to us!
2. Search suggestions and full text search. Start typing a few
characters, and pick out an article from the list of suggestions
provided. You can also tap the search button to perform a full text
search over all of wikipedia.
3. Saved pages. You can save pages when online and read them later
when you are offline. Try it in different combinations and with
different sized articles.
4. Read article in other language. This feature lets you read the
article you are currently viewing in other languages. Try it out for
multiple languages, with different connectivity states and check for
any inconsistent states.
5. Did You Mean? search suggestions when searching. Type in a few
misspelt words when searching, and wait for the app to suggest
spelling corrections
6. Nearby Me feature shows you points of interest near you that have
WIkipedia Articles! Try it out with GPS available and without, in
different parts of the world with different languages.
7. Tapping co-ordinates in any article (eg. article on San Francisco)
shows a map view with articles around that article. Explore this
functionality across many geographic regions and languages!
8. Access Wikipedia in your native language. Use the settings menu to
change your content language, and then try doing everything else here.
Should provide the same seamless experience in any language.
9. Share page functionality is broken for now. Next beta!
10. Generally play around with the app, explore new features! There is
an easter egg somewhere too, so see if you can find it :)
General Feedback
@http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaMobileiOSFeedback
(edit away).
There are bound to be bugs but don't think that someone else will file
them for you. If you don't file it then chances are that we won't
know it's an issue - so file away at
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikipedia%20App.
If you're not sure of whether it's a bug or not, then come join us on
#wikimedia-mobile (freenode) and we'll sort it out.
--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Hello everyone!
Off the really great success of Wikipedia V1.0 for Android
(http://bit.ly/xvoPrR ) and its impressive roll out
(http://bit.ly/A5mva7) the mobile team is now moving full speed with
V1.1
For those that just want to get started you can download the new build
from here:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/Wikipedia-v1.1-beta1.apk
(http://bit.ly/zpNLyF)
We've been reading feedback as quickly as we get it and numerous
features have bubbled up to the top for our next major release.
With V1.1 we've added :
- Integration with QuickSearch in Android
- Open Wikipedia links from other apps in the Wikipedia App (URL Intents)
- OSM replaced Google Maps for nearby view (using MapQuest tiles)
- Added Did You Mean? to search results
- Moved to jQuery off Zepto
- Touching co-ordinates inside articles shows map overlay
- Full text search
- Added 'Clear History'
- Added 'Clear Saved Pages'
- Localized a few messages that were missing
- Enable app to be saved to SD card
- Major code-refactor, still needs more love :)
- Improved tablet experience
- Move to using Hogan.js for templating
- Fixed a lot of tiny bugs!
Up-to-date changes can now be found at
https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile/blob/master/CHANGELOG
While we still have a ways to go before V1.1 is ready for the market,
we really need your help in testing our beta versions. We're targeting
them as mostly feature complete and reasonably stable, but in no way
100% bug free. We need you to tell us where the app is crashing,
misbehaving, and in general providing a poor user experience. Expect
that across our alpha, beta, release candidate cycle, that your
feedback can significantly alter the features that we've added.
Test this extensively and file bugs under
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia%20Mobile.
Hammer on these builds mercilessly so that we can get all the kinks
out before our next major market release.
Key points to test for this version
* Test the quick search box integration. Tap the 'G' to show all of
your data providers. Tap the config icon at the top right of the new
window. Scroll to the bottom of the 'Searchable items' menu and check
'Wikipedia' . Search for 'San Francisco' and/or any other term. Try
the same with multiple languages. You may have to turn off Web
searches until you train your phone to surface Wikipedia results more
prominently.
* Open the native web browser. Load google.com. Search for 'San
Francisco'. Tap the result that points to our mobile site. The app
should pop up an intent menu. Choose 'Wikipedia' as the default app.
* Switch your phone to a language that is written Right to Left. Use
the application as you normally would, and report anything that is not
what you would expect. We now have nascent RTL UI support, and need
all the testing we can possibly get
* Tap near by in the App. Navigate around the map and select whatever
pins you might see. Tap a pin to go to the article detail page
* Search for 'Mumbai' in the App search bar. Go to the article. Scroll
to the bottom of the info box. Tap the GPS coordinate. You should then
see a map with geographically related articles
* Search for 'Charile Sava' in the App search bar. Note that no
relevant match shows up. Tap the magnifying glass to the a full text
search and note that 'Ann curtis' comes up
* Search for 'San Francisko' . Note that the app catches the
misspelling and offers up 'San Francisco' as a spelling correction.
Tap the spelling correction to go to the article
* In the app tap menu, history, and top right X button to clear your
browsing history
* In the app tap menu, saved pages, and top right X button to clear
your saved pages
* Starting from the home screen tap menu, manage apps, scroll to
'Wikipedia'. Tap move to USB storage.
* All of our test cases from V1.0 - http://bit.ly/vpbhQe
* .. and whatever else you may want try out
General Feedback @
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaMobileAndroidFeedba…
(edit away) .
There are bound to be bugs but don't think that someone will file them
for you. If you don't file it then chances are that we won't know it's
an issue. If you're not sure of whether it's a bug or not, then come
join us on #wikimedia-mobile (freenode) and we'll sort it out.
I took the liberty and built out this new structure under
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikipedia%20App
We now have real components, versions, and milestones. One thing thats
missing is to clean up the template for filing a new bug in order for it to
show only mobile OS's. I've filed a bug for that here
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34668
I also noticed that there was a significant amount of bugs (ex. 30389) that
were moved into mobile apps that should have not. hexmode is cleaning those
up now.
--tomasz
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Mark A. Hershberger <
mhershberger(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> [Feel free to fwd this to the list since I can't send to it even though
> I am subscribed. If this magically shows up on the list, then, of
> course, ignore this bit.]
>
> Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> writes:
>
> > Rather then this approach why not doing it as
> >
> > Product: Wikipedia App
> > Component: Near by/Bookmarks/Generic
> >
> > Product: Wiktionary App
> > Component: Word of the day/Distint feature/etc
>
> If you give me a list of components, I can do that, I didn't have a list
> to use, though.
>
> If you give me a list of components I can move set it up and move it
> over for you. I'll put everything in a "General" component and let you
> guys sort out the bugs as needed.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark.
>
> --
> Mark A. Hershberger
> Bugmeister
> Wikimedia Foundation
> mah(a)wikimedia.org
>
Hello everyone!
Off the really great success of Wikipedia V1.0 for Android
(http://bit.ly/xvoPrR ) and its impressive roll out
(http://bit.ly/A5mva7) the mobile team is now moving full speed with
V1.1. We've already released an alpha and a beta, and today are
putting out another beta release.
For those that just want to get started you can download the new build
from here:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WikipediaMobile-v1.1beta2.apk
(http://bit.ly/xzTOa0)
With V1.1 we've added :
- Integration with QuickSearch in Android
- Open Wikipedia links from other apps in the Wikipedia App (URL Intents)
- OpenStreetMaps replaced Google Maps for nearby view (using MapQuest tiles)
- Added Did You Mean? to search results
- Moved to jQuery off Zepto (mostly)
- Touching co-ordinates inside articles shows map overlay
- Full text search
- Added 'Clear History'
- Added 'Clear Saved Pages'
- Localized a few messages that were missing
- Enable app to be saved to SD card
- Major code-refactor, still needs more love :)
- Improved tablet experience
- Move to using Hogan.js for templating
- Fixed a lot of tiny bugs!
Since the last beta we've specifically done work on:
- Android 4.0 fixes for the Map
- Map usability fixes
- Fixes nearby me issues in non-english locales
- About page now lists contributors
Up-to-date changes can now be found at
https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile/blob/master/CHANGELOG
We're targeting our betas as mostly feature complete and reasonably
stable, but in no way
100% bug free. We need you to tell us where the app is crashing,
misbehaving, and in general providing a poor user experience. Expect
that across our alpha, beta, release candidate cycle your
feedback can significantly alter the features that we've added.
Test this extensively and file bugs under
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mobile%20Apps
Hammer on these builds mercilessly so that we can get all the kinks
out before our next major market release.
Key points to test for this version
* Test the quick search box integration. Tap the 'G' to show all of
your data providers. Tap the config icon at the top right of the new
window. Scroll to the bottom of the 'Searchable items' menu and check
'Wikipedia' . Search for 'San Francisco' and/or any other term. Try
the same with multiple languages. You may have to turn off Web
searches until you train your phone to surface Wikipedia results more
prominently.
* Open the native web browser. Load google.com. Search for 'San
Francisco'. Tap the result that points to our mobile site. The app
should pop up an intent menu. Choose 'Wikipedia' as the default app.
* Switch your phone to a language that is written Right to Left. Use
the application as you normally would, and report anything that is not
what you would expect. We now have nascent RTL UI support, and need
all the testing we can possibly get
* Tap near by in the App. Navigate around the map and select whatever
pins you might see. Tap a pin to go to the article detail page
* Search for 'Mumbai' in the App search bar. Go to the article. Scroll
to the bottom of the info box. Tap the GPS coordinate. You should then
see a map with geographically related articles
* Search for 'Charile Sava' in the App search bar. Note that no
relevant match shows up. Tap the magnifying glass to the a full text
search and note that 'Ann curtis' comes up
* Search for 'San Francisko' . Note that the app catches the
misspelling and offers up 'San Francisco' as a spelling correction.
Tap the spelling correction to go to the article
* In the app tap menu, history, and top right X button to clear your
browsing history
* In the app tap menu, saved pages, and top right X button to clear
your saved pages
* Starting from the home screen tap menu, manage apps, scroll to
'Wikipedia'. Tap move to USB storage.
* All of our test cases from V1.0 - http://bit.ly/vpbhQe
* .. and whatever else you may want try out
Since the last beta, we've specifically fixed bugs related to non
english languages and Nearby Me feature, and fixes for Android 4.0.
Specific testing on those issues would be great!
General Feedback @
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaMobileAndroidFeedba…
(edit away) .
There are bound to be bugs but don't think that someone will file them
for you. If you don't file it then chances are that we won't know it's
an issue. If you're not sure of whether it's a bug or not, then come
join us on #wikimedia-mobile (freenode) and we'll sort it out.
--
Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Cross posting to reach a larger audience.
We've gotten word from the Global Development group that a lot of our
partners are asking for an official Symbian S40 J2ME app for
Wikipedia. Before talking to any potential development houses I wanted
to reach out to both of these lists to see if anyone has a lead on any
open source developers who would want to contract for a project like
this and/or volunteer with us.
The feature set would be fairly basic including but not limited to
* Reading articles
* Bookmarks
* History
* Interwiki links
Now developing for J2ME is a beast unto itself as Derk-Jan
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32700#c1 points out but
the potential install base of these phones is still fairly large
making it a good strategic goal. We'd love to do this in PhoneGap but
its support starts at S60 and not S40.
I see two Symbian based apps here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Mobile_access#Symbian_applications
but their both just for offline reading
Curious to hear peoples thought/experiences.
--tomasz