Hi everyone,
We're thrilled to bring you our latest update to the Wikipedia Android
app[1][2], available now on the Google Play Store. Here are the highlights
from this release:
* Tabbed browsing! Pressing-and-holding a link now lets you open it in a
new tab, allowing you to keep reading the current article without losing
your place, and switch to the new tab when you're ready. This can also be
done directly from Search results, Nearby results, "Similar Pages" links,
and "Read More" links. To view and manage your current list of open tabs,
press the Tabs button near the top-right corner, which will allow you to
switch to any tab in the list, create a new tab, or close a tab.
* Language selection from the Search bar! When searching from within the
app, you can now select the language of Wikipedia to be searched. By
default, the Wiki language in the app is set to the system language of your
Android device. But now, for our multilingual friends, you can quickly
change your preferred language by pressing the button next to the Search
field while searching.
* A slightly redesigned table-of-contents button: the button now appears at
the bottom right of the screen, and disappears a short time after you
scroll away from the top of the article. The button reappears if you start
scrolling quickly, or if you reach the top of the article again. (The table
of contents is also still accessible by swiping from the right edge of the
screen)
Additional minor enhancements include:
* Added and updated some more Material Design components in the app.
* Improved error handling and presentation of error messages throughout the
app.
* Improved relevance of "read more" suggestions at the bottom of articles.
* Added option to view the current page in an external browser (at the
bottom of the article).
* Many more bug fixes and localization updates.[3]
Until next time, happy reading!
Best,
Dmitry Brant
Mobile Apps Team (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en
[2]
https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.…
[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107344
Hi folks,
Back in January, the size of MobileWebClickTracking had gotten to be over
200 gb, making it so slow as to be unusable. As a result, we split up the
into 3 separate tables.
However, it seems that >90% of the clicks are coming from the article
table (or adding search created bloat) and
MobileWebUIClickTracking_10742159 is now approaching 300gb. Mostly this is
due to search. I would encourage further sampling, but that would mean that
beta data would be lost. Perhaps we can split it into separate beta/stable
tables and then sample stable? Any other ideas?
Phab ticket here:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108723
-J
I just want to say thank you to all you who help to develop the mobile apps. I really admire your dedication. I just help test because I don't know code, but thank you to those who do.
Best
Philip
Hey Mobile Apps crew,
there are 58 open tasks in archived Wikipedia-App-* Phabricator
projects which do not have any active projects associated either:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/s4y9prrcTSnQ/#R
What should happen to these tasks and what feedback should be given to
the folks who spent time to report those issues?
We can mass-{add comments, change statuses, change priorities} but I
don't know which message you'd like to send out here.
Thanks in advance!,
andre
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http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
Hi,
Did anybody try to count how long are mobile edits?
How many characters do people actually type when they edit wiki pages
through mobile web and mobile apps?
Or, more precisely, how many meaningful keystrokes?
A simplistic way would be to measure the number of added characters, but
that's not quite correct, because deleting a wrong letter and typing a
correct one looks like zero added characters, but actually it's at least
two meaningful keystrokes.
Is there any measurement like that?
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi,
Do we have statistics about where people are mobile-editing Wikimedia
projects from?
Are there countries where people read Wikimedia projects on mobile devices
a lot, but edit little or not at all?
Also, is editing enabled through Wikipedia Zero? I heard conflicting
reports about it.
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“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Do we have statistics about the screen resolution that people are using
when they are browsing Wikipedia from mobile devices?
And separately, statistics about the screen resolution that people are
using when they are *editing* Wikipedia from a mobile device?
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Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
“We're living in pieces,
I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Hi Tomasz,
Thanks for your feedback! The link preview feature is something that we're
actively developing, and are very excited to promote to the stable app as
soon as it's ready.
Thanks for continuing to use the app, and feel free to give any additional
feedback anytime!
Best,
--
Dmitry Brant
Mobile Apps Team (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Tomasz W. Kozlowski <tomasz(a)twkozlowski.com>
wrote:
> Hi!
> So I'm just going through the latest Wikimedia Foundation quarterly
> report, and I stumbled on a short passage that mentions a feature of
> the mobile Wikipedia app that I really, really enjoy using.
>
> The ability to view a link preview when clicking on an article link
> inside the app is just fantastic. Not only does it save time when you
> only need to quickly look up a fact, but the way that the app does it
> is elegant and fast.
>
> I'm using the alpha version of the app on an Android 5.1 smartphone,
> and the report says it's also in the beta version, but I do hope it
> will be added to the stable app too :-)
>
> So, to cut a long story short: a huge thank you and please-keep-it-up
> to the mobile team for implementing this handy little feature :-)
>
> --
> Tomasz
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Hi,
Can anybody please remind me why do we have a whitelist for languages into
which the Wikipedia apps can be translated?
Is it because Android and iOS only support certain locales at the OS level
and it's impossible to customize them?
Is there any conceivable way to avoid this and open up the localization to
more languages?
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
Sorry, I should write much clearer, what I mean :) The "And on mobile in alpha mode" is meant for the mobile version of the Wikipedia _website_, e.g. en.m.wikipedia.org (which you visit with your web browser) :)
Best,
Florian
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Von: Tomasz W. Kozlowski [mailto:tomasz@twkozlowski.com]
Gesendet: Samstag, 8. August 2015 23:52
An: Florian Schmidt <florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de>; 'mobile-l' <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Betreff: Re: WG: [Wikitech-l] Showing article information on tap in Wikipedia mobile app (a thank you)
On Sat, 2015-08-08 Florian Schmidt wrote:
> And on mobile in alpha mode: Tap the hamburger menu (3 lines on the
> top left), click settings and enable the beta mode. Save and do it
> again and enable experimental mode now. After that you can swipe on an
> internal link from left to right (or vice versa) and you see a preview
> :)
Well, I haven't got any other version of the mobile app than the alpha one, so I can't test this at the moment. I'm also quite happy with the alpha version, too, so I won't be installing the stable app any time soon.
But just to make sure: I am talking about the feature that lets you look up a short snippet of the article when you tap on an internal link. Swiping from the right lets me see the article's table of contents, and swiping from the left shows a menu with the 'History', 'Nearby' and 'Random' options, so perhaps we're talking about two diffe rent things? :-)
--
Tomasz