Mobile-l October 2013

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Browser statistics for mobile
by Juliusz Gonera 15 Nov '13

15 Nov '13

Since our current Squid stats [1] don't look very accurate or precise, I decided to generate something myself based on the logs we have. I analyzed a week's worth of logs, from 2013-06-10 to 2013-06-16. I generated three sets of data: * minor: browsers grouped by their minor version, e.g. all Androids 4.2 go together, all Safaris 5.1, etc. * major: browsers grouped by their major version, e.g. all Androids 4 go together, all Safaris 5, etc. * vendor: browsers grouped by their name only, e.g. all Androids go together, all Safaris, etc. Each group has also an additional file with all the unknown user agents logged (they are logged as "Other" in the main files). Everything is available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/840ftlrfygtou4m/browser-stats-mobile-20130610-201… Most of it looks like I expected, the market is shared mostly among mobile Safari and Android. What I hadn't expected is that Android 2.3 is still the most popular Android at 9.79%. That's a lot. I started thinking what we could do about this. After some googling I found lots of Android 2.x users frustrated by the fact that Chrome is not available for Android older than 4 and they're stuck with a crappy browser. I tried looking for an alternative and I found it rather quickly: Firefox. Mobile Firefox is a sad 0.26% of our users, even less than desktop Firefox (0.29%)! I tried installing it on the first Google Nexus and hey, maybe it's not superfast, but it's better than the stock Android 2.3 browser and supports both photo uploading and our new editor really well (stock Android 2.3 doesn't support uploads and the editor is... quite wonky). So, my suggestion is: let's show a banner or a call to action for Android 2.x users telling them about this and encouraging them to try Firefox. It's free open software and I think it's better than what stock Android 2.x browser is. What do you think? Wikimedia Foundation <3 Mozilla Foundation? ;) Unrecognized browsers are mostly bots with one notable exception, NativeHost, which is probably the Windows Phone app (I'm guessing [2]). [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13306090/how-do-i-change-the-nativehost-… -- Juliusz

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Jenkins exploding on Qunit tests
by Jon Robson 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Jenkins is now blowing up for reasons unknown to me. Desktop QUnit tests are failing all the time due to timeout reasons (I can sometimes replicate this locally - this might have been due to some core change?) Mobile tests are sometimes passing and sometimes throwing errors due to no tests being run. See this commit for an example when the mobile tests passed but core changes failed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92000/ and here where both sets of test failed: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92994/ This all started since the seemingly harmless https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92804 got merged. any ideas what is going on? This currently stops us merging any code (since we disabled the verified override)

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enwiki issue today during branch switching
by Jon Robson 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Also today around 4pm, when wikipedias got switched to 1.23wmf1, the mobile site experienced the classic debug=true issue - a JavaScript exception was being thrown due to what I think was some old code being loaded (when debug=true was appended this error didn't occur so I suspect some caching issues). Reedy seems to have fixed it with lots of file touching (thanks Reedy)! Greg, what can we do to avoid this happening again?

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Deployment postmortem
by Adam Baso 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Everyone, I apologize for the bug. I'll look for ways to guard better against this risk in the future, which will be important as we look to expand coverage of Wikipedia Zero to sister projects and the desktop form factor. Thanks to everyone for resolving the issue so quickly. You guys rule. And Roan, thanks for not flipping over my desk, despite the bug making RL go haywire on Wikidata AND holding up your lightning deployment. It's true - you are a gentleman and a scholar. -Adam On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <yastrakhan(a)wikimedia.org>wrote: > == Background == > ZeroRatedMobileAccess has always depended on MobileFrontend and used it > liberally, including calls to its classes. However, it was done in hooks > called by MF so Zero simply stopped working in absence of MF. This, > however, changed in [1] where Zero started using a ResourceLoader module > from MF. > > == What happened == > At 23:02pm UTC, after deploying Zero extension updates, fatal monitor was > flooded with: > > -- Fatal error: Class 'MFResourceLoaderModule' not found in /usr/local/ > > apache/common-local/php-1.23wmf1/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.phpon > line 408 > > The issue was tracked down to Wikidata having MobileFrontend disabled, > while ZeroRatedMobileAccess was enabled. It didn't impact page views > directly, however all load.php calls that requested the startup module > caused fatals because it attempted to instantiate MFResourceLoader class > and couldn't find it. As a consequence, people might have seen pages > without styles or scripts. > > A number of people (MaxSem, Reedy, Roan, and Greg, and possibly others) > gave great assistance to track down the issue and rapidly disable the > ZeroRatedMobileAccess extension in Wikidata. Furthermore, mobile > configuration [2] will add an additional guard against calling > ZeroRatedMobileAccess.php unless it's explicitly within the context of MF. > > Thank you to everyone!!! > > == Timeline == > All times in UTC > > * 22:48 Zero 1.22wmf22 deployed, no errors > * 23:02 Zero 1.23wmf1 deployed, first errors appear - initially unnoticed > * 23:08 A small MobileFrontend change deployed > * 23:09 Errors noticed, initially linked with MobileFrontend push > * 23:17 Max reverts his MobileFrontend changes, errors don't go away > * 23:22 Problem narrowed down > * 23:27 Fix deployed > > == Recomendations == > * Allow a bit more time between deployments and observe fatalmonitor before > and after > * Ensure Zero extension checks if Mobile extension is loaded before > enabling itself if it relies on MFResourceLoader. > > ------ > [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/83133 > [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92811 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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MobileFrontend weekly report
by feedbackbot＠jonrobson.me.uk 28 Oct '13

28 Oct '13

22 outstanding patches awaiting review, 9 bugs closed and 8 new bugs from MobileFrontend. Note: Any patchsets open for 2 months with no activity in last 2 weeks will be closed. JGonera (4): ########################################### >>Hygiene: Clean up overlays.less and pagelist.less [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90068 (11 days old) >>Add template partials support to View [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90686 (8 days old) >>[WIP] Separate stable and beta upload overlay code [-2] (Reviewed by JGonera): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92031 (2 days old) >>[WIP] Introduce OverlayNew [-2] (Reviewed by JGonera): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92012 (2 days old) Jdlrobson (12): ########################################### >>Beta: Add Special:History [+1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/89283 (16 days old) >>Hygiene: Simplify how make phpunit works in Makefile [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91535 (4 days old) >>Group schemas together [-2] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91515 (4 days old) >>Fix QUnit in Chrome [-1] (Reviewed by Robmoen): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91537 (3 days old) >>Hygiene: Throw JS exception on bad template file rather than PHP exception. [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91658 (3 days old) >>WIP: Beta desktop feature: Nearby pages [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92002 (2 days old) >>Hygiene: Kill navigation.js [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92000 (2 days old) >>Hygiene: Consolidate ajax loading code [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91988 (2 days old) >>Hygiene: Address FIXME [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91900 (2 days old) >>Hygiene: Merge mobile.head and mobile.startup modules [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91999 (2 days old) >>WIP: QA Add basic nearby tests for Vector [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92019 (2 days old) >>WIP: Basic QA tests for Nearby [-2] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92018 (2 days old) MaxSem (5): ########################################### >>Deprecate $wgMFForceSecureLogin in favor of core setting [-2] (Reviewed by MaxSem): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80324 (66 days old) >>Very code hygienic change: KILL WAP WITH FIRE!!1 [-2] (Reviewed by MaxSem): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/82050 (58 days old) >>Don't mention 0 edits and 0 uploads on UserProfile [-2] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90930 (6 days old) >>Collect mobileview cache hit statistics [+1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91202 (5 days old) >>WIP: Tablet detection support [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/92036 (2 days old) Robmoen (1): ########################################### >>Hygiene: Eliminate api fixmes from PageApi [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson,JGonera): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/91532 (4 days old) *** New bugs: ########################################### [Bug 56152] Image editing for Mobile view for fa.wikipedia is locked https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56152 [Bug 56139] Special pages missing "Desktop" view link at bottom https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56139 [Bug 56008] Don't collapse sections on Google Glass https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56008 [Bug 56024] On site mobile site header where hamburger menu is present titles are not centered https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56024 [Bug 56153] Special:Nearby throws error on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby?debug=true https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56153 [Bug 56154] Special:Nearby throws error on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby?debug=false when an article is clicked https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56154 [Bug 56209] expanding a section at right opens editor https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56209 [Bug 56076] Providing an invalid template file in RL module definition causes silent failure https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56076 *** Closed bugs: ########################################### [Bug 53732] Use consistent icon to represent registered users https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53732 [Bug 55982] 'Mobile view' link always heads to https https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55982 [Bug 54079] cant leave message on user talk page via overlay https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54079 [Bug 55594] Alpha: History code replaces URL on non main namespace https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55594 [Bug 54607] api: mobileformat html returns inconsistent response https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54607 [Bug 55539] Make cucumber doesn't work https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55539 [Bug 55586] Sections do not expand after an edit https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55586 [Bug 55956] MobileFrontend geodata features (like Special:Nearby) have no documentation https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55956 [Bug 56027] Last modified text not readable per WCAG guidelines https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56027 ########################################### Fork me on github: https://github.com/jdlrobson/gerrit-review-mailbot

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Google Code-in: are you in?
by Quim Gil 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Google Code-In is a contest to introduce pre-university students (ages 13-17) to the many kinds of contributions that make open source software development possible. Students must complete tasks (see examples), one at a time. The Google Code-in 2013 contest runs from November 18, 2013 to January 6, 2014. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In In theory, this program could be very useful to fix little bugs and implement little features (or bigger, if we know how to split the tasks), especially in those mobile projects that don't get the top priority. I have been told by Google and various organization participanting in the past that Android development is one of strongest skills among Code-in participants, with iOS and mobile web development scoring also pretty well. What do you think? We are currently preparing the proposal to apply by Oct 28, next Monday. If you can add at least 5 tasks to the wiki page linked above then you will be ready for the next level - if we are one of the organizations selected on November 1. If you have questions just ask, here or at the related talk page. -- Quim Gil Technical Contributor Coordinator @ Wikimedia Foundation http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil

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mobile-frontend-profile-heading-recent
by Amir E. Aharoni 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

Hallo, What does the message mobile-frontend-profile-heading-recent refer to? The qqq documentation doesn't make it so clear, and it doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Thanks! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Design] Return of the annoying post account creation screen
by Jon Robson 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

Return to is set but I have to click the return to link to get back to the article. It seems very unnecessary and effects our CTA workflows by adding an extra step. Kenan - any opinions on this? On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Quiddity <pandiculation(a)gmail.com> wrote: > (I'm late. Steven already answered. But someone else might find this useful > :) > > Note that Signup is different from Login. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Account_creation_user_experience > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Login > Login (at Enwiki at least) does currently automatically send you back to the > page you were at. > I'm not sure if we'd want to match that for Signup, as the reminder to > check/change Preferences is useful... However, a > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour popup (message box > pointing directly to the "Preferences" link) might be good. > > Ah, see bullet-point #1 at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted#Features > > More details at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians > > > > On 13-10-21 01:23 PM, Jon Robson wrote: >> >> Bump >> >> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> When I sign up on beta labs for a new account instead of getting >>> thrown back to the article I was on I get this instead: >>> http://imgur.com/zFA7Nql >>> >>> Has this always been the case or did something change? >>> >>> I thought we made a decision to move away from this horrible >>> intermediate screen? >>> >>> >>> http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&… >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Design mailing list > Design(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/design -- Jon Robson http://jonrobson.me.uk @rakugojon

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Return of the annoying post account creation screen
by Jon Robson 22 Oct '13

22 Oct '13

When I sign up on beta labs for a new account instead of getting thrown back to the article I was on I get this instead: http://imgur.com/zFA7Nql Has this always been the case or did something change? I thought we made a decision to move away from this horrible intermediate screen? http://en.m.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&…

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MobileFrontend weekly report
by feedbackbot＠jonrobson.me.uk 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

21 outstanding patches awaiting review, 5 bugs closed and 4 new bugs from MobileFrontend. Note: Any patchsets open for 2 months with no activity in last 2 weeks will be closed. Zfilipin (2): ########################################### >>Renamed tests/acceptance folder to tests/browser [+1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/87565 (16 days old) >>Moving shared code to mediawiki-selenium Ruby gem [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/87563 (16 days old) Kaldari (1): ########################################### >>Adding user to last modified [+1] (Reviewed by Siebrand): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/87298 (17 days old) Jdlrobson (10): ########################################### >>[WIP] QA: Add basic tests for nearby desktop and mobile [-2] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/85138 (31 days old) >>Alpha: Turn random into a campaign [+1] (Reviewed by Siebrand): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/87427 (17 days old) >>Alpha: Make hamburger menu slide in/out when opened [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/88185 (13 days old) >>Make "make cucumber" work (attempt 2) [-1] (Reviewed by JGonera): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/89137 (10 days old) >>Beta: Add Special:History [+1] (Reviewed by JGonera): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/89283 (9 days old) >>Make sure auto expanded sections have contents [-2] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/89362 (9 days old) >>Add topics to the correct namespace [-1] (Reviewed by JGonera): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90079 (4 days old) >>Ensure namespace is passed when history code loaded [-1] (Reviewed by JGonera): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90072 (4 days old) >>Story 1258: Move last modified to top of page [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90454 (3 days old) >>Story 1262: Adding user to last modified [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90443 (3 days old) MaxSem (3): ########################################### >>Deprecate $wgMFForceSecureLogin in favor of core setting [-2] (Reviewed by MaxSem): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/80324 (59 days old) >>Very code hygienic change: KILL WAP WITH FIRE!!1 [-2] (Reviewed by MaxSem): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/82050 (51 days old) >>Make mobileformat not change the output structure [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/87252 (18 days old) JGonera (5): ########################################### >>Hygiene: Clean up overlays.less and pagelist.less [-2] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90068 (4 days old) >>Story 1281: Promote section level editing tutorial A/B test to stable [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90450 (3 days old) >>Fix image width in user profiles [-1] (Reviewed by Jdlrobson): https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90674 (2 days old) >>[WIP] Add template partials support to View [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90686 (1 days old) >>Make View's defaults inheritable and extendable [0] n/a: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/90685 (1 days old) *** New bugs: ########################################### [Bug 55816] AbuseFilter throttling not working on Mobile editor https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55816 [Bug 55859] Editing a page with 'read in more languages' causes 'last edited' timestamp to move https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55859 [Bug 55870] Mobile editing: Submit button disabled on Opera Mobile 11.50.14 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55870 [Bug 55895] Don't mention 0 Uploads on the mobile profile page https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55895 *** Closed bugs: ########################################### [Bug 53297] frontend link "mobile view" strips query from request https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53297 [Bug 50125] Talk page overlay - can't handle html in headings https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50125 [Bug 52049] Mobile editor silently fails when abusefilter is triggered https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52049 [Bug 55596] Thanks button not styled https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55596 [Bug 55903] Dependency issue with geonotahack breaks Special:Uploads https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55903 ########################################### Fork me on github: https://github.com/jdlrobson/gerrit-review-mailbot

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