Mobile-l September 2012

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Fwd: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App
by Philip Chang 14 Sep '12

14 Sep '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM Subject: Mobile site banner to promote the WLM App To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear WLM Members, As of yesterday, a banner promoting the WLM Android App has appeared on all pages of the WIkipedia mobile site and the sister projects, on Android devices only. This banner can be closed easily by the user, and won't appear again until the user clears the data of his/her browser. To summarize, the banner: - appears on the mobile site only - appears on Android devices only - appears on all pages in all languages - can be closed easily and persistently - is being localized - links to the app on Google Play We are tracking downloads of the app to see what impact this makes. To all of you who considered putting the banner on your WIkipedia main page, this removes the need for making the manual change. I believe there were no cases where this was actually done, but if it was, the banner would appear twice on the main page, so the manual version can be removed. Thank you for your support. Phil -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810 -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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Fwd: Camera users - the Android app is for you!
by Philip Chang 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:41 PM Subject: Camera users - the Android app is for you! To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition < wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Greetings WLM Members, Version 1.2.3 of the WLM Android App is on Google Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm>and here <http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk>. We have made some improvements and in particular, there is an important enhancement related to camera photos. Yes, camera photos. Please let me explain. The app is a great way to find monuments, but many participants in WLM use cameras to take the photos they will submit to the contest. It is great to submit mobile photos to the contest as well, but cameras generally offer better quality and control. So why not upload mobile photos as placeholders, to make camera submissions easier? The following blog post, which will be published tomorrow, explains how this works. Using the Wiki Loves Monuments App as a travel log<http://blog.wikimedia.org/?p=17406> Posted by Philip Chang <http://blog.wikimedia.org/author/pchang/> on September 10th, 2012 The Wiki Loves Monuments Android App<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm> is a great way to take photos and upload them to Wikimedia Commons during the world’s largest photo contest<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/08/29/kicking-off-wiki-loves-monuments-2012/> throughout September. But what if you are shooting with a camera and don’t see yourself taking too many photos with your mobile phone? You can now use the app as a convenient travel log and make it much easier to organize your photos when processing and uploading them at home. Here’s how you use the app as a travel log. As you walk around finding monuments nearby to shoot with your camera, use the app on your phone to find the monuments and take a picture of them to upload, either on the road or when you get home. Back on your computer, your uploaded mobile photos will be a convenient record of all the monuments you visited, sitting on Commons under “My uploads.” As an added bonus, every mobile upload you add to Commons will include a link to the Special Upload Wizard that automatically allows you to upload and categorize more photos of that monument based on its campaign and reference number. This is similar to clicking the “upload photo” button on the monument lists in Wikipedia, but it is right there in your travel log. <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png> A screenshot of the new travel log feature associated with WLM app photos uploaded to Commons. To see your travel log and use this feature, you must login at commons.wikimedia.org <http://blog.wikimedia.org/commons.wikimedia.org> and click on “My uploads” at the top. Click on the name of any uploaded photo and the file page of that photo will open. Scroll down and below the description you will see the link, “Upload more photos of this monument.” The travel log can help you in two ways: 1. you will see a sequential list of the monuments you visited, which helps in identifying the monuments taken on your camera 2. you can submit the photos from your camera for each monument directly from the travel log The latest app, version 1.2.3, has been published in the Google Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm> store and that version has this new feature. Please update the app if you downloaded it before and do not have auto-updates turned on. If you have good ideas about photo uploads in general, or improvements next year, feel free to post feedback<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedb…> or send email <mobile-feedback-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>. You may also download the app here<http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.3.apk>, or on the F-Droid market<http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=wiki%20loves%20monuments&fdi…> . We appreciate your support. Happy uploading! *Phil Chang, Product Manager, Mobile* - Copyright notes: "Upload more photos"<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_more_photos.png> by Philinje <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Philinje>, under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode>, from Wikimedia Commons -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810 -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Mobile Feedback] Wikipedia
by Philip Chang 06 Sep '12

06 Sep '12

Yes, it is public and open source. https://github.com/Wikimedia/WikipediaMobile We are on IRC Freenode, #wikimedia-mobile if you have questions. Thanks for your offer to help. We are in the middle of two major projects and some of your ideas might make their way into the second project, but we are short-handed. I am also CC'ing our mobile mailing list, since it's a good forum to discuss ideas like yours. I already added three bugs and made a note on the Feature Corral. Please note your OS and device in these bugs, if you can. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40013 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40014 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40015 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/features#User_feedback To sign up for mobile-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l Thanks. Phil On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Wow, nice turn-around time! I didn’t expect such a quick reply. > > Say, is this thing developed publicly? I might be able to give a hand > with some bug fixing at some point. > > — Bogdan Butnaru > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Philip Chang <pchang(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > > Hi, thanks for this excellent feedback. > > > > We'll raise some bugs and keep in mind the enhancement about the initial > > page, which is an idea we have been considering. > > > > Phil > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Bogdan Butnaru <bogdanb(a)gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> I'm having trouble using the "save page" function. The pages are saved, > >> but it's pretty much impossible to use them when not connected to the > >> Internet: > >> > >> First, if I start the application while disconnected, the app is stuck > >> trying to load the home page, and it doesn't allow me to open the list > of > >> saved pages. (Actually, AFAIK it's impossible to open the menu at all > until > >> the first page loads, which is really annoying even when connected.) > >> > >> Second, even if I'm looking at a saved page while the connection drops, > if > >> I click on a link to something not saved (which can happen by accident) > >> it'll again get stuck, not even the back button works. > >> > >> It really needs to be more resilient to connectivity issues, as it > stands > >> it's almost less useful for reading the wiki than a browser. > >> > >> Independently of those bugs, it would be nice to have the option not to > >> load the homepage by default. A search box and the list of saved pages > would > >> be much faster. > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Mobile-feedback-l mailing list > >> Mobile-feedback-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-feedback-l > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Phil Inje Chang > > Product Manager, Mobile > > Wikimedia Foundation > > 415-812-0854 m > > 415-882-7982 x 6810 > > > -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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WLM Android App v1.2.2
by Philip Chang 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Greetings All, We have updated the app on Google Play<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.wlm>with some important fixes and enhancements. Here is a separate download link: *http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.2.apk*<http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/WLM-v1.2.2.apk> Changes in this version: * Dynamically load campaign data - picks up campaign config changes without requiring a new version of the app * Camera and location features marked as optional to increase device compatibility * Localisation updates * Increased accuracy when communicating with GPS satellites * Disables 'Cancel upload' button when it is too late to cancel * Bigger touch areas for checkboxes * Moves {{Uploaded with WLM Mobile}} template to the source field on file page * Translated country name on monument page * Fixed admin level display * Strip bold/italic apostrophe markup from wikitext fields * 'Back' after upload no longer returns you to upload progress * Consistent photo upload comments * Cache monuments in certain situations to reduce API calls * Monument pin clustering disabled when zoomed in * Lossless image compression The app is now also available of the FOSS market, F-droid, at: *http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.wikipedia.wlm*<http://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.wikipedia.wlm> We are working on more fixes and enhancements, including a handy way to upload more photos on Commons. This will make any mobile upload a convenient placeholder for desktop uploads. Please let us know if you have any issues by email or on the feedback page<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Feedb…> . We have a new page for help with monument data issues: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_mobile_application/Data… Phil -- Phil Inje Chang Product Manager, Mobile Wikimedia Foundation 415-812-0854 m 415-882-7982 x 6810

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Motorola Defy+ not redirected to mobile version
by Jakob Unterwurzacher 05 Sep '12

05 Sep '12

Dear list, I have the Motorola Defy+ aka MB526 smartphone. Shouldn't it be redirected to the mobile version? (It is not) The user agent is: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.6; de-at; MB526 Build/4.5.1-134_DFP-231) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1" Thanks, Jakob

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