Today's update to the Wikipedia app[1] includes the following changes:
Add Today menu
Dark theme: appearance of images, background on editing screens, remove
inline colors from within tables
References with page internal links work now
Fix crash when clicking on link in references panel
Show number of matches when finding in page (4.1+)
Remove flashing of empty message in saved pages/history screens during
loading
Language variants for Chinese
It's basically the same as the beta we pushed on Monday minus the
experimental features.
It may take an hour or two before it is visible for everybody. A link to
the apk is also available[2].
Enjoy!
Bernd
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia
[2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Release_history#Wikipedia
Forgot mobile-l, so just forwarding.
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Datum: Do., Aug. 14, 2014 13:17
Hello,
in Mobile Web there is a feature in alpha mode (settings->beta->settings>experimental) to show categories of a page as a seperate, last expandable section. I don't know when this goes to beta/stable.
Kind regards
Florian
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Datum: Do., Aug. 14, 2014 08:28
Any chance of including these links in the Android mobile app and in mobile web?
Categories are the subject of a current IEG research project and their omission from mobile might be significant.
Article history can be accessed in mobile web through the strapline, but not at all in the mobile Android app.
Thanks,
Pine
Dan Duvall and I worked on his patch refactoring MobileFrontend
browser tests yesterday [1]. We got over half of the tests working on
mediawiki-vagrant, but we might have caused some breakage on
betalabs/jenkins. The last two builds have lots of failures (over 30),
but that doesn't mean that the features themselves are broken. We'll
figure it out soon.
In general the changes we made were necessary and hopefully will help
get everyone running browser tests on their dev instances in the near
future. Another nice thing added by Dan is the possiblity of
specifying browser tests dependency on other extensions as seen in
[2]. Those browser tests will not run (will be skipped) if an
extension is not enabled. Instead developers will see a warning saying
which extension needs to be enabled to run them.
Dan, thanks for all this work.
[1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/147115/
[2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/152993/
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Juliusz
Any chance of including these links in the Android mobile app and in mobile
web?
Categories are the subject of a current IEG research project and their
omission from mobile might be significant.
Article history can be accessed in mobile web through the strapline, but
not at all in the mobile Android app.
Thanks,
Pine
True story:
My girlfriend was using the Android app yesterday on her device, and she
told me, "It would be great if you had an option to jump to specific
sections... It's difficult to scroll all the way down to the section I'm
looking for!"
:)
I hate to dissent, but I don't think a separate app is the way to go at this time for a few reasons.
First, many of the types of contributions to wikidata that we've talked about game-ifying are article specific. ie, "have user read some portion of an article and summarize what it's about in 5 words or less", etc.
This would mean we'd need search and browse etc, and my gut tells me a variety of other context and interactions the existing app provides would need to be recreated.
If the existing app could launch the game app, that could be one way to provide context, but from a UX perspective, we would otherwise be limiting ourselves to tasks that didn't require heavy back-and-forth comparisons and the transition between apps, at least on iOS, is super annoying (the way Facebook swaps out to Messenger annoys the hell out of me).
I also think, at this time, our limited resources are better spent carefully crafting one or two gamed interactions which we can carefully insert into the existing app rather than having to solve the inevitable wider set of challenges a new app would present.
The existing app also has a flood of users based on name recognition alone. Although I suppose we could call it "Wikipedia Games"...
tl:dr, game-ify yes, other app no/not now
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> It's been amazing to see the interest in WikiData games here at
> Wikimania and i've been approached by a number of people who've wanted
> to create them. From label creation to data validation there have been
> many ideas of how to engage users in new and creative ways.
>
> I'm curious to hear from users on this list and beyond about interest
> in a WikiData games app that would facilitate simple and quick
> contributions.
>
> The idea would be that the app would act as a simple frontend shell
> that would allow anyone to interact with WikiData games to create,
> curate, and validate content. Putting aside the difficulties of
> dynamic custom user content with the app I'm curious about the
> interest in this.
>
> I know that that mobile web team is already planning a handful of
> experiments with this and I'm eager to see if some of you would
> frequent an app that collected these and empowered users to contribute
> in ways that doesn't exist yet.
>
> Do let know
>
> --tomasz
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>> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> It's been amazing to see the interest in WikiData games here at
>> Wikimania and i've been approached by a number of people who've wanted
>> to create them. From label creation to data validation there have been
>> many ideas of how to engage users in new and creative ways.
>>
>> I'm curious to hear from users on this list and beyond about interest
>> in a WikiData games app that would facilitate simple and quick
>> contributions.
>>
>> The idea would be that the app would act as a simple frontend shell
>> that would allow anyone to interact with WikiData games to create,
>> curate, and validate content. Putting aside the difficulties of
>> dynamic custom user content with the app I'm curious about the
>> interest in this.
>>
>> I know that that mobile web team is already planning a handful of
>> experiments with this and I'm eager to see if some of you would
>> frequent an app that collected these and empowered users to contribute
>> in ways that doesn't exist yet.
>>
>> Do let know
>>
>> --tomasz
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Hi all,
I would like to encourage those of us who may have missed Lila's keynote
speech at Wikimania to listen to it. [1] In her speech, Lila takes a long
view of Wikimedia's history and future. She talks about incremental and
disruptive changes that are happening socially and technologically such as
the shift toward mobile and wearable computing, and the use of technology
in the developing world. She also talks about modes of contribution, and
changes inside the Wikimedia projects that would encourage more people to
participate actively.
Thanks very much, Lila. I look forward to seeing how the trends and
opportunities that you describe are addressed in our new strategic plan.
Pine
[1] http://new.livestream.com/wikimania/saturday2014
It's been amazing to see the interest in WikiData games here at
Wikimania and i've been approached by a number of people who've wanted
to create them. From label creation to data validation there have been
many ideas of how to engage users in new and creative ways.
I'm curious to hear from users on this list and beyond about interest
in a WikiData games app that would facilitate simple and quick
contributions.
The idea would be that the app would act as a simple frontend shell
that would allow anyone to interact with WikiData games to create,
curate, and validate content. Putting aside the difficulties of
dynamic custom user content with the app I'm curious about the
interest in this.
I know that that mobile web team is already planning a handful of
experiments with this and I'm eager to see if some of you would
frequent an app that collected these and empowered users to contribute
in ways that doesn't exist yet.
Do let know
--tomasz
Hi,
The Hebrew Wikipedia community is questioning the current design of the
Mobile main page, and this raises some questions about the mobile main page
design for all languages.
I don't have a strong opinion myself, but the current tendency is to show
all the boxes rather than just a few, as it is now.
This begs the question - is it really good for mobile readers?
For example, is the mobile main page very popular at all, or is there much
more traffic to the articles?
Is there a difference between mobile main page traffic in the app and in
the mobile web?
Are there any known good practices for mobile main page design?
Finally, what is the plan for the future development of the main page? The
current software still uses HTML ids like "mp-tfa"; is there a plan to
change it?
Thanks!
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