As folks may be aware, over in the Wikimedia Mobile Apps team we're
starting a refresh of the Wikipedia mobile apps for Android and iOS, which
have not been updated in a while and are now wayyy behind the mobile web in
features and UI awesomeness.
The new apps are using native UI around the content web view, which lets us
integrate with the system better than the old PhoneGap-based HTML app, and
provide long-desired features like pinch-to-zoom in the article view.
Our first 2-week work sprint is finishing up, and builds of current state
are available:
* Android:
http://dumps.wikimedia.org/android/apps-android-wikipedia-dev-sprint1.apk
* iOS: on testflightapp.com (email notifications sent to our recently
trimmed beta list)
Both versions are pretty bare-bones, so don't be surprised by missing
icons, toolbar buttons that don't work, or incomplete design. :)
This first feature sprint concentrated on getting search & basic content
loading working. You can type into the search box, the search results
include thumbnails, and you can select a search result to load the article.
You can also click on internal links in both iOS and Android versions,
though they get a little flaky from there out. :) Back/forward is not yet
implemented on iOS; back works on Android but there's no forward.
Note also the pretty animation when following links on Android -- neat!
Next sprint's release should look more polished, as we'll have some more
navigation working, and the first sprint stuff prettied up to better match
design:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Search-overlay-01.png
For in-progress design & UX ideas for the new app, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_App_Design
Note that you may or may not need to manually uninstall the old app if it's
present first.
If you want to try the iOS version and aren't on the beta list you'll have
to build it yourself on a Mac with XCode 5, and then you can only install
it on your device if you are a registered iOS developer (thank Apple's
restrictions on third-party app installations!):
$ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/apps/ios/wikipediaapps-ios-wikipedia
(Unfortunately we cannot add new people to the iOS beta list until Apple
clears out old entries from our 100-max device database, either at the end
of the calendar year or in February when our membership rolls over. Yeah,
I'm serious...)
And of course you can build the Android version too, and run it with no
restrictions:
$ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/apps/android/wikipediaapps-android-wikipedia
Note that there's separate work going to revitalize the Wikipedia app for
Firefox OS, which will remain HTML5-based as that's how native Firefox apps
work! That's being spearheaded by the Wikimedia Mobile Partnerships &
Wikipedia Zero team.
-- brion
Hi,
In English, the message mobile-frontend-editor-previewing says:
"'''Previewing'''
$1", where $1 is a page title.
I suppose that the bold text is important for design, so I have a question:
is *everything* except the page title supposed to be bold or is just the
word "previewing" supposed to be bold? In Hebrew, and maybe in some other
languages a preposition is needed between "Previewing" and the title.
In general, if such design considerations are important, they should be in
the qqq context documentation.
Thanks!
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
I noticed this spike [1] in editing errors on mobile so have investigated it.
These were the types of errors occuring on that day [2]
NULL 23
autoblocked 5
badtoken 8
blocked 88
editconflict 2014
HTTP error 69
nosuchsection 8
pagedeleted 1
protectedpage 246
ratelimited 34
rvnosuchsection 7
Sadly 1649 of these users were trying to make their first edit [3]
And most of these problems were on enwiki [4]:
dewiki 5
enwiki 1997
eswiki 1
frwiki 4
jawiki 1
kowiki 4
ptwiki 1
ruwiki 1
Looking closer at the timestamps the majority of enwiki errors (1909
of them) happened between 1am and 3am on Tuesday the 19th November UTC
[5] with 1844 of these occurring between 2.30am and 3am [6]. This
would be around Monday 18th November 5pm-7pm PST. All these edits
happened in stable mode. Does anyone know why might have been
responsible?
[1] http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/error-edits
[2] select event_errorText, count(*) from MobileWebEditing_6077315
where event_action = 'error' and timestamp > 20131119000000 and
timestamp < 20131120000000 group by event_errorText
[3] select event_errorText, count(*) from MobileWebEditing_6077315
where event_action = 'error' and timestamp > 20131119000000 and
timestamp < 20131120000000 and event_errorText = 'editconflict' and
event_userEditCount = 0
[4] select wiki, count(*) from MobileWebEditing_6077315 where
event_action = 'error' and timestamp > 20131119000000 and timestamp <
20131120000000 and event_errorText = 'editconflict' group by wiki
[5] select wiki, count(*) from MobileWebEditing_6077315 where
event_action = 'error' and timestamp > 20131119010000 and timestamp <
20131119030000 and event_errorText = 'editconflict' group by wiki
[6] select wiki, count(*) from MobileWebEditing_6077315 where
event_action = 'error' and timestamp > 20131119023000 and timestamp <
20131119030000 and event_errorText = 'editconflict' group by wiki
