Greetings all, and happy 1 month anniversary of the tablet redirect :)
I've got some data to share on new tablet, phone, and app editors and how
they stack up against new desktop editors. This is enwiki only for now; I
await the glorious return of Dario to help us out with global data :)
*New active mobile editors*
Our metric for new active mobile editors is 5+ edits within 30 days of
registration, so we don't quite have the full numbers on the first month of
newly registered users yet (because people who signed up yesterday haven't
had time to reach active status). But here's today's snapshot of the
percent of newly registered users we've converted to active editors in the
last 30 days across all out different platforms:
[image: Inline image 1]
Note that the trend Dario observed still holds – both newly registered
tablet and mobile site users are being converted to 5+ editors at a higher
rate than desktop.
Slightly concerning is the conversion rate on the Android app – I'd have
expected this to be higher, more in line with mobile site editors on
phones. We'll need to figure out if this is due to users editing
anonymously on the app instead of signing in and counting toward our new
active user count.
*New user productivity*
I was also interested in the volume of contribution we're seeing across
each of the platforms, to get a sense of how much new folks are
contributing. So I ran the numbers for bytes changed (added, removed, and
total changed) by newly registered users across all our different platforms:
[image: Inline image 2]
Though mobile site editors (both tablet and phone) are reaching 5+ edits at
a higher rate than desktop users, it looks like desktop editors make
significantly bigger edits in terms of bytes. Not super surprising, given
the smaller screen real-estate and greater difficulty in contributing
longform text, but it's good to validate that with real data. Note again
that Android app editors are on the lower end of bytes contributed.
To me, these two graphs raise the question of whether mobile site editors
(on both tablets & phones) make a larger number of small edits as opposed
to one big edit like they might on desktop. I don't know if we'll be able
to answer that definitively anytime soon, but it's definitely something to
think about and dig into more in the future...
--
Maryana Pinchuk
Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Hello all. See below. Great stuff for users on smaller screens! Thanks
Kaldari, Maryana, and the rest of the core mobile web crew!
-Adam
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From: Maryana Pinchuk
Date: Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 6:15 PM
Subject: [zero] Small screen improvements for Opera Mini & smaller
Greetings Zero folks,
I just wanted to let you know that we've recently merged a patch to
MobileFrontend to improve the reading and searching experience for users on
smaller mobile screens, based on our meeting with Gautam from Opera in
June: https://trello.com/c/fuyrQAyt/13-5-small-screen-improvements
This change will go out on the deployment train to sister projects
(Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, etc.) tomorrow and to all our larger
projects (enwiki & others) next Thursday. Please test out these changes and
let us know what you think! :)
--
Maryana Pinchuk
Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation
wikimediafoundation.org
Hi Vibha,
I modified the "external link" indicator for Night mode. Here's how it
looks:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8sebxpjqee02wha/device-2014-07-17-113418.png
I simply took the existing indicator and made its background transparent,
instead of white. Technically, since it's transparent now, it can replace
the indicator in our general styles, so that we wouldn't need a different
one for night mode. Thoughts?
-Dmitry
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Today I worked a bit on fixing failing browser tests. The good news is that
some tests detected a regression in core that caused full text search on
mobile to not work. The bad news is that many of the failures seem to be
caused by problems with Saucelabs and/or beta labs, examples:
https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/job/browsertests-Mob…
Editor doesn't seem to load, possible causes: beta labs API error, or
problem with connection between saucelabs and beta labs
https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/job/browsertests-Mob…
getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError) - seems like a problem
with network on saucelabs
https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/job/browsertests-Mob…
Saucelabs recording shows "no data received" error in Chrome, either beta
labs problem or saucelabs network problem
https://integration.wikimedia.org/ci/view/BrowserTests/job/browsertests-Mob…
same as above
Those are just a few examples from recent failures, but they make tracking
regressions really tedious and time consuming. I know we are planning to
move away from Saucelabs and use our own servers to run the tests. When
will this happen? Is there any deadline?
Thanks,
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Juliusz
Today's update to the beta[1] variant of the Android app includes the
following changes:
Dark theme (night mode) ('''yes, it's finally here!''')
Adjust font size based on system settings and make adjustable in app
('''another commonly requested feature''')
Display abusefilter warnings and errors
Show references in a pane at the bottom of the screen (without scrolling)
Add search to Saved Pages screen
Order saved pages alphabetically, instead of by date
Add graphics and explanations for History and Saved Pages
Don't show red links
Add onboarding screen
Hide edit pencils for file pages
Improved appearance on 2.3 devices
Fix multiple crashes
It may take an hour or two before it is visible for everybody.
Please report any bugs you encounter, so we can fix them before we push the
bits to the production app.
Enjoy!
Bernd
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta
Hello!
One of the bigger components of
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda/Android_app_releases is
getting CI builds that are available after every commit for the
Android app. Am trying to collect all the tasks that'll need to be
done for that to work properly, so we can get them all done :D My goal
is to have CI builds for the app available and usable by end of July
1. Setup jenins to be able to build Android apps
1a. Add a puppet role that installs and maintains an Android SDK setup
1b. Add this to the Jenkins roles, will probably still run on labs
rather than production
1c. Add a small script that'll rename the package name to
org.wikipedia.alpha and set the version as well (extend our make-beta
script)
1d. Add jenkins job to build the apk, and add a Zuul trigger to
trigger the job on every commit-merge. This should also run the
make-alpha script before building.
1e. Make sure that the apks built are tagged with appropriate commit
hashes / dates.
2. Build small wrapper app that checks jenkins for new builds and
notifies the user of any builds newer than the one they have. Should
have easy download + 1 tap to install.
3. Build small 'status' web page where people can check current build
/ download it / download the wrapper app (for first time use)
I'll work with Dan to get these prioritized and scheduled. Anything I missed?
Yay to CI builds!
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Yuvi Panda T
http://yuvi.in/blog
Hello! I've created a (still in draft) page with guidelines for
Android release cadence. Comments welcome either in this thread or the
talk page
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Yuvipanda/Android_app_releases
I hope to bring it to a consensus by next Monday (14th July) and
remove the {{draft}} tag. Note that this applies only to Android, and
not iOS.
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Yuvi Panda T
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