Hi, Wiktionary and mobile communities!
This is the undergrad team who's writing a Wiktionary app, based on the
existing Wikipedia Android app. We're in the early phases right now and
are aiming to have an app ready to use by April.
We're currently listing and assigning features and tracking bugs on this
wiki page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiktionary_Mobile_App_Feature_List
We're in the process of getting a Bugzilla component, but until then,
please post your feature requests on that page.
If you'd like to have a look or try it out, our repository for the
project is currently at:
https://github.com/pfhayes/WiktionaryMobile
though that may change.
All the best,
UCOSP Team:
Tony Cheng, University of Toronto
Shealen Clare, University of British Columbia
Patrick Hayes, University of Waterloo
Dale Lemieux, University of Waterloo
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UCOSP_Spring_2012
To say that we've been happy about the roll
out<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-andr…>of
our new Wikipedia Android
app <https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wikipedia> would be an
understatement.
In just over two weeks time we've:
* Had *827,236* total installs of our app
* Become the *#1 search result* for 'Wikipedia' in the market
* Held the* #1 trending spo*t in the whole Google Android market for our
first week
* Held both the* #4 & #5 spot in top free Books and Reference*
* Made it onto the *top 100 free apps* in the Android market
* Maintained a *4.5/5 star* review
* Held a consistent *87% install retention rate*
And that doesn't even include our non EN numbers.
For a new app these are some truly impressive numbers and Yuvi, Brion, and
the rest of the mobile team deserve all sorts of great credit for pulling
this off. They've made our reviewers truly happy
Here are some of my favorite comments:
"Great Ad-free, therefore awesome."
"Très bien Fait le job et fonctionne sans problème sur Galaxy Nexus."
"Por fin la oficial Esta muy bien y sin ningun fallo (samsung galaxy ace)"
"Plaisir libriste Nous l'attendions tous bien que ce ne soit pas sur une
plate-forme Libre comme il se doit ! Topissime et plus pratique que de
faire une recherche Web avec le SearchAgent le temps que firefox se
lance... Merci !"
"Super. Dzięki tej aplikacji mogę łatwo zmieniać język artykułu, czego
brakowało mi w ich stronie minionej."
"Brilliant! As someone who uses wikipedia in multiple languages, the ease
of the Read in... feature is fantastic. Thank you,wikipedia!
"Works great Looks great and works smoothly!"
But we certainly had our fair share of criticisms for a nasty launch bug
that held on to the GSM radio even after you left the app and certain
missing Android niceties like the Quick Search Box and URL intents. We
fixed the first quickly and have iterated on the others to where an alpha
release for them will show up shortly.
We had also long wondered if people were going to use our near by
functionality. Thankfully with new stats from geonames we can easily see
that were getting over 20,000 req/day (http://bit.ly/wUVHAI) for just our
map functions. Soon we'll have even more stats about how many users are
accessing our sites through the Android app.
There is still a lot to
do<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/roadmap>but i'm
pretty happy with our first dedicated push into the Android
eco-system. Next stop, fixing up our iOS app to do the same.
--tomasz
Greetings all,
We'd like to push a new minor version of our iOS Wikipedia app and
need your help testing. This update fixes our URL handling and allows
us to keep our current age restriction in the Apple App Store
For those that just want to get going download it from here
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/iOS/WikipediaMobile-V2.2.2-RC1.ipa (MD5
758ab55011a042da1f8f8fe5bbe88c75)
NOTE: If you haven't given me your UDID then this IPA will NOT work
for you. I need to have your IPA before we build a new version in
order for it work. If your try the IPA and find that it wont install
then follow these instructions to send me your UDID and I will build a
new version.
http://www.innerfence.com/howto/find-iphone-unique-device-identifier-udid
Things to try
* Search for 'bing' . Scroll to the bottom of the info box . Tap
bing.com. A window should pop up asking you to open the link in a
browser <-- this is new
* Previous test cases :
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2011-December/005277.html
* .. and whatever else you can think off
Feedback page is here @
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/WikipediaMobileiOSFeedback
(edit away)
As before 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 wont
know its an issue. If your not sure of wether its a bug or not then
come join us on #wikimedia-mobile (freenode) and we'll sort it out.
thanks!
--tomasz
I can raise a bug later (currently typing on my mobile) but it wild be good
if our Android app could offer "find [text] on page", as the native browser
does.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
Not sure if I'm doing this right, I've never used a mailing list before.
Sorry if I'm screwing something up.
I was referred here by Mr. Sumana Harihareswara, who asked me to share some
mockups I'd sent the mobile support team. I made the mockups to suggest
how the Android version of the Wikipedia app could be adjusted to more
closely follow design guidelines and improve usability.
You can find the mockup, details, some of my reasoning for the changes, and
the source PSD files on my talk page:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Nalorcs
To be clear, I'm not an app developer nor in any way associated with the
Android project.
Thanks