Mobile-l December 2016

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[Apps] Stripping content inside brackets from the first sentence of articles
by Dan Garry 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Hi everyone, *tl;dr: We'll be stripping all content contained inside brackets from the first sentence of articles in the Wikipedia app.* The Mobile Apps Team is focussed on making the app a beautiful and engaging reader experience, and trying to support use cases like wanting to look something up quickly to find what it is. Unfortunately, there are several aspects of Wikipedia at present that are actively detrimental to that goal. One example of this are the lead sentences. As mentioned in the other thread on this matter <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-March/008715.html>, lead sentences are poorly formatted and contain information that is detrimental to quickly looking up a topic. The team did a quick audit <https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1BJ7uDgzO8IJT0M3UM2q…> of the information available inside brackets in the first sentences, and typically it is pronunciation information which is probably better placed in the infobox rather than breaking up the first sentence. The other problem is that this information was typically inserted and previewed on a platform where space is not at a premium, and that calculation is different on mobile devices. In order to better serve the quick lookup use case, the team has reached the decision to strip anything inside brackets in the first sentence of articles in the Wikipedia app. Stripping content is not a decision to be made lightly. People took the time to write it, and that should be respected. We realise this is controversial. That said, it's the opinion of the team that the problem is pretty clear: this content is not optimised for users quickly looking things up on mobile devices at all, and will take a long time to solve through alternative means. A quicker solution is required. The screenshots below are mockups of the before and after of the change. These are not final, I just put them together quickly to illustrate what I'm talking about. - Before: http://i.imgur.com/VwKerbv.jpg - After: http://i.imgur.com/2A5PLmy.jpg If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

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Results from similar articles A/B test
by Dmitry Brant 04 May '17

04 May '17

Hello all, As mentioned previously, the current version of the Android app contains an A/B test where it presents "read more" suggestions to the user, based on (a) the standard "morelike" query, or (b) the new "opening_text" query. Here are the results from the last ~10 days of the test[0]: - The clickthrough rate using the default morelike query is (and has been) around 15%. - With the new opening_text query, the clickthrough rate decreases to about 12%: [image: Inline image 1] Therefore, it seems that the new query has a nontrivial negative effect on CTR :( We'll plan on removing this test in the next release of the app, but we'll be happy to plug in a different or updated query, if it will be of further use to Discovery. [0] https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1BFsrAcPgexQyNVemmJ3… (queries embedded as comments in the headers) -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering

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Wikipedia app v5.3.3 for iOS released
by Joshua Minor 22 Dec '16

22 Dec '16

Hello, Version 5.3.3 of the Wikipedia app for iOS has been released to the app store[1]. This minor update includes improvements to performance and stability, particularly when loading many articles in quick succession and refreshing the Explore feed. Thanks, Josh Minor PM, Wikipedia for iOS [1] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8

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Readers contributions via Android
by Moushira Elamrawy 21 Dec '16

21 Dec '16

Greetings, The Android team has earlier started a consultation [0] several months ago to collect input on the type of contributions that readers can carry out in order to help editors and further engage them in our projects, while still being helpful to our editors. The ideas that have had the most discussion from that phase, have been further elaborated on with clear wireframes for demonstration. Please check the ideas here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions_via_Android>, [1] and add your feedback to the page. Kindly note that this is an experiment discussion and an attempt to understand your needs and perspectives. None of these ideas is so far in the planning or research phase. This is the first time the reading team is discussing ideas at the earliest stage possible and we welcome your own, very early ideas that are discussed as possibilities. This awesome work has been made possible by Nirzar, Rita, Dmitry and Jon Katz. Looking forward to your feedback. Moushira [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Interaction_Consultation [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions_via_Android https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions_via_Android#Ad… :

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Wikipedia app v5.3.2 released to app store
by Joshua Minor 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

Hello mobile Wikimedians, We've just released an update for Wikipedia for iOS to the App Store[1]. This version includes support for iOS's Dynamic Type setting, which allows users to increase the size of text, not just in articles, but of buttons and other UI elements. This is a major piece of the accessibility work we kicked off in October[2], and allows users with poor vision to more easily navigate and read Wikipedia. This version also includes a major database upgrade, which should continue to improve the speed and stability of the Explore feed, Saved pages and user's local history. Cheers, Josh Minor PM, Wikipedia for iOS [1] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 [2] - Described on list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-October/010396.html

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Commons app (Android) update - v1.41
by Josephine Lim 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Hi all, We're excited to announce that we've rolled out several updates and bugfixes for the Commons Android app[1] over the past couple of months. Some of the major ones include: - Automatic addition of geocoding template if uploaded image is geotagged - Category suggestions based on the title entered for the image - New, more detailed tutorial to educate new contributors on what types of images should or should not be uploaded (special thanks to Pine for sharing his Commons educational script which was used as the basis for this) - Check for whether or not the file already exists on Commons, to prevent upload of duplicates Additionally, the kind folks at translatewiki.net are helping us set up a translation project for our app, so hopefully localization should improve in the near future. Thank you all for your support and encouragement thus far! Feedback, bug reports, and suggestions are always welcome on our GitHub page[2]. :) [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons [2]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/ -- Regards, Josephine

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Analytics] Readership metrics for the timespan until December 4, 2016
by Toby Negrin 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Thank you so much for this Zareen! It's really great to see this report -- so much interesting data to think about! -Toby On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Zareen Farooqui <zareenf(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > This resumes the usual look > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readership_metrics_reports> at > our most important readership metrics. This time we can report that daily > pageviews are up 4.8% (since the last report), with an interesting recent > peak which meant that November’s pageviews surpassed those of November 2015 > (coincidentally also) by 4.8%, after October had already seen a 2.1% > year-over-year increase. The iOS Wikipedia app saw increased downloads, > while the Android app’s install base has stopped its previous downward > trend. > > As laid out earlier > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-September/009773.html>, > the main purpose is to raise awareness about how these metrics are > developing, call out the impact of any unusual events, and facilitate > thinking about core metrics in general. As always; feedback and discussion > welcome. Week-over-week and month-over-month changes are now being recorded on > the Product page > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product#Reading> at > MediaWiki.org. This edition of the report covers a timespan of eighteen > weeks. > > Some other recent items of interest, in case they didn’t already catch > your attention: > > - > > The WMF Reading team published its quarterly review presentation > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_and_Comm_Tech_Quarterly_Rev…> > for Q1 2016-17 (July-September), which includes lots of traffic and usage > data. > - > > At the Foundation’s August metrics meeting > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AAugust_2016_Monthly_…>, > the Reading team gave an update on longer-term traffic trends since 2013. > (TL;DR: Overall pageviews have been flat to slightly declining, mobile has > been steadily rising but recently slowed down, desktop has declining during > these three years. However, total pageviews have been slightly increasing > year-over-year in the last few months.) See the chart below, updated with > data until November: > > [image: Wikimedia monthly pageviews (desktop+mobile), 2013-2016 (version > December 2016).png] > > In particular, as mentioned, the number of total pageview saw > year-over-year increases of +2.1% for October and +4.8% in November, in > contrast to e.g. the -10.5% we had for May 2015-May 2016. > > Now to the usual data. (All numbers below are averages for August > 1-December 4, 2016 unless otherwise noted.) > > Pageviews > > Total: 529 million/day (+4.76% from the previous report timeframe, with > corrected numbers for anomalously high traffic on some main pages > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141506>) > > > Context (April 2015-December 2016): > > > > See also the Vital Signs dashboard > <https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/#projects=all/metric…> > > (Small caveats: iOS app’s pageviews were undercounted by about 1.6 > million/day from mid September to early November due to a bug > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148663>.) > > Overall pageviews increased steadily during the timespan of this report > aside from the week ending October 30th (right before Halloween) and the > end of November. There appears to be a peak in pageviews in November. > > To facilitate our understanding of which traffic movements are seasonal > and which may indicate lasting changes, here is a chart overlaying the > total pageview numbers back to May 2013 (the earliest time for which we > have data according to the current pageview definition): > > The blue line indicates a non-seasonal rise peaking around November 12. We > checked whether this peak came from a particular country and were able to > exclude that possibility. > > Wikimedia Daily Pageviews from US > > > Pageviews in US do not show any drastic changes (even around the time of > the US elections). > > > Wikimedia Daily Pageviews from Mexico > > > In Mexico, there seems to been a huge drop starting October 27th (perhaps > some sort of local outage). > > > Wikimedia Daily Pageviews from Ecuador > > > Ecuador shows a huge spike on October 30th, followed by a drop for several > days. > > Desktop: 54.1% (previous report: 54.1%) > > Mobile web: 44.8% (previous report: 44.6%) > > Apps: 1.1% (previous report: 1.3%) (missing some iOS pageviews, cf. > above) > > Context (December 2015 - December 2016): > > Overall mobile percentage is similar to the last report, but we did see a > small increase (besides one week in August) until late September. As a > reminder, mobile already has a solid majority in terms of unique devices, > cf. below. > > > > Global North ratio: 75.3% of total pageviews (previous report: 75.5%) > > Context (January - December 2016): > > > > There is a slight increase in Global North percentage in late October and > November, but overall this number is relatively steady. > > NB: We are currently rethinking this metric and might replace it with a > different country selection constructed as part of the work on the New > Readers project. > Unique devices > > See the announcement blog post > <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/30/unique-devices-dataset/> from > March for background and details on this recently introduced metric. These > estimated numbers are provided for all Wikimedia language projects > (separately for the desktop and mobile web version). Because of the > instrumentation method, there is no global metric for all projects and all > languages, but following some recent discussions it is now planned > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138027> to extend it to a > cross-language global metric per project at least. For now, we track the > daily numbers of the English Wikipedia in this report. > > Daily unique devices estimate for English Wikipedia: > > - > > Mobile web: 33.9 million (previous report: 32.2 million) > - > > Desktop: 24.1 million (previous report: 22.3 million) > - > > Total: 57.9 million (previous report: 54.5 million) > - > > Average mobile web ratio: 58.7% (previous report: 59.3%) > > > > Context (January- December 2016): > > > > This metric hasn’t existed long enough yet to get a good sense of what > yearly seasonalities may exist, but since the last report time frame daily > unique desktop devices show an increasing upward trend until early > November, where there is a peak and then an apparent drop (which parallels > the peak in pageviews). > > > > To understand the peak in daily unique devices, we plotted the ratio of > daily pageviews to daily unique devices. There is a small bump in the > mobile ratio in early November, but it is too small to fully explain the > rise in pageviews around this time. > New app installations > > Android: 19.9k/day (+1.21% from the previous report) > > Daily installs per device, from Google Play > > Context (last seven months): > > > > > Download numbers increased in September and have sustained previous levels > so far, possibly helped by the app’s inclusion on the Education category > page <https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/EDUCATION> in Google’s > Play Store. There was an additional bump in mid September (reason unknown). > The number of daily uninstalls decreased slightly. During the timespan of > the previous report, installs had markedly decreased (except for a so far > unexplained bump during two weeks in July), which combined with the high > uninstall numbers had caused the app’s install base to shrink from 15.5 > million on March 31 to 15.1 million at the beginning of August. This trend > has now been stopped, although the number was still at 15.1 million on > November. (Google has since discontinued > <https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7003402#acti…> > this “current installs” metric in favor of a new “installs on active > devices" metric.) > > > > iOS: 6.35k/day (+99.9% from the previous report) > > Download numbers from App Annie > > Daily downloads (with the largest countries broken out): > > [image: Wikipedia iOS app daily downloads by country, Aug 1 ~ Dec 7, 2016 > (App Annie).png] > > The iOS Wikipedia app was promoted on iTunes in September, with huge > impact (twice as many downloads than resulted from a comparable promotion > in September 2015). Total daily downloads remained on a higher level > afterwards (4.8k/day during the last week of this report, Nov 28-Dec 4). > Around October 24, downloads from the US spiked, possibly helped by some > organic media coverage such as this > <http://thetechbeard.com/best-free-ios-10-widgets/>. On November 11, we > registered an extra 9000 downloads from Sweden, for unknown reasons (no app > store promotions or media coverage that we are aware of). > App user retention > > Android: 16.4% (previous report: 16.7%) > > (Ratio of app installs opened again 7 days after installation, among all > installed one week before a date that falls within this report. 1:100 > sample) > > Context (last seven months): > > As remarked in earlier reports, this data is a bit too noisy for drawing > conclusions about whether retention changed significantly between different > releases. Retention appears to have dropped somewhat in September after > having gradually grown earlier during the timespan of the last report and > after. > > iOS: N/A <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126693> > > (We recently began measuring this on the iOS app - using the same method > as on Android, restricted to users who opt-in to data collection - but > there is not enough data yet.) > Unique app users > > Android: 1.146 million / day (+0.0% from the previous report) > > Context (last six months): > > In September/October, there seems to be a very small growth in daily > average users. > > iOS: N/A <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130432> > > Zareen Farooqui, Data Analyst Intern, Wikimedia Foundation > > Tilman Bayer, Senior Analyst, Wikimedia Foundation > Data sources > > For reference, the queries and source links used are listed below (access > is needed for each). Unless otherwise noted, all content of this report is > © Wikimedia Foundation and released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 > <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. Most of the > above charts are available on Commons, too. > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_readership_metrics_re…> > > > SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) > as date, sum(IF(access_method <> 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS > mobileviews, SUM(view_count) AS allviews FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE > year>0 AND agent_type = 'user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, > month, day LIMIT 1000; > > SELECT LEFT(timestamp, 10) AS date, sum(IF(access_method <> 'desktop', > pageviews, null)) AS mobileviews, SUM(pageviews) AS allviews FROM > staging.pageviews05 WHERE is_spider = FALSE AND is_automata = FALSE GROUP > BY date; > > Pivot URLs: > > United States > <https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#pageviews-daily/line-chart/2/EQUQLgxg9AqgKgYWA…> > > Mexico > <https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#pageviews-daily/line-chart/2/EQUQLgxg9AqgKgYWA…> > > Ecuador > <https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#pageviews-daily/line-chart/2/EQUQLgxg9AqgKgYWA…> > > SELECT access_method, SUM(view_count)/(7*18) FROM wmf.projectview_hourly > WHERE agent_type = 'user' AND CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) > BETWEEN "2016-08-01" AND "2016-12-04" GROUP BY access_method; > > SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")), > SUM(view_count) AS all, SUM(IF (FIND_IN_SET(country_code, > 'AD,AL,AT,AX,BA,BE,BG,CH,CY,CZ,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FO,FR,FX,GB, > GG,GI,GL,GR,HR,HU,IE,IL,IM,IS,IT,JE,LI,LU,LV,MC,MD,ME,MK,MT, > NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,RS,RU,SE,SI,SJ,SK,SM,TR,VA,AU,CA,HK,MO,NZ,JP,SG,KR,TW,US') > > 0, view_count, 0)) AS Global_North_views FROM wmf.projectview_hourly > WHERE year > 0 AND agent_type='user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY > year, month, day LIMIT 1000; > > SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) > as date, SUM(IF(uri_host LIKE 'en.m.wikipedia%', uniques_estimate, 0)) AS > enwiki_mobile_web > > FROM wmf.last_access_uniques_daily > > WHERE year=2016 GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT > 1000; > > SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) > as date, SUM(IF(uri_host LIKE 'en.wikipedia%', uniques_estimate, 0)) AS > enwiki_desktop > > FROM wmf.last_access_uniques_daily > > WHERE year=2016 GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT > 1000; > > SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) > AS date, > > SUM(IF(access_method = 'mobile web', view_count, null)) AS mobilewebviews, > > SUM(IF(access_method = 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS desktopviews > > FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year=2016 AND agent_type = 'user' AND > project = 'en.wikipedia' > > GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; > > SELECT LEFT(timestamp, 8) AS date, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 0, 1, > 0)) AS day0_active, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 7, 1, 0)) AS > day7_active FROM log.MobileWikiAppDailyStats_12637385 WHERE timestamp > LIKE '201510%' AND userAgent LIKE '%-r-%' AND userAgent NOT LIKE > '%Googlebot%' GROUP BY date ORDER BY DATE; > > (with the retention rate calculated as day7_active divided by day0_active > from seven days earlier, of course) > > https://analytics.itunes.apple.com/#/retention?app=324715238 > > SELECT CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, > unique_count AS Android_DAU FROM wmf.mobile_apps_uniques_daily WHERE > platform = 'Android'; > > https://console.developers.google.com/storage/browser/pubsite_prod_rev_ > 02812522755211381933/stats/installs/ (“overview”) > > https://www.appannie.com/dashboard/252257/item/324715238/downloads/ > (select “Total”) > > > > Zareen Farooqui > > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > >

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Fwd: Readership metrics for the timespan until December 4, 2016
by Zareen Farooqui 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hi all, Please see below for the Readership metrics report for the timespan until December 4, 2016. Zareen Farooqui ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zareen Farooqui <zareenf(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:45 PM Subject: Readership metrics for the timespan until December 4, 2016 To: mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Cc: schang(a)wikimedia.org, slien(a)wikimedia.org, wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org, fr-online(a)wikimedia.org Hi all, This resumes the usual look <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readership_metrics_reports> at our most important readership metrics. This time we can report that daily pageviews are up 4.8% (since the last report), with an interesting recent peak which meant that November’s pageviews surpassed those of November 2015 (coincidentally also) by 4.8%, after October had already seen a 2.1% year-over-year increase. The iOS Wikipedia app saw increased downloads, while the Android app’s install base has stopped its previous downward trend. As laid out earlier <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-September/009773.html>, the main purpose is to raise awareness about how these metrics are developing, call out the impact of any unusual events, and facilitate thinking about core metrics in general. As always; feedback and discussion welcome. Week-over-week and month-over-month changes are now being recorded on the Product page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product#Reading> at MediaWiki.org. This edition of the report covers a timespan of eighteen weeks. Some other recent items of interest, in case they didn’t already catch your attention: - The WMF Reading team published its quarterly review presentation <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading_and_Comm_Tech_Quarterly_Rev…> for Q1 2016-17 (July-September), which includes lots of traffic and usage data. - At the Foundation’s August metrics meeting <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AAugust_2016_Monthly_…>, the Reading team gave an update on longer-term traffic trends since 2013. (TL;DR: Overall pageviews have been flat to slightly declining, mobile has been steadily rising but recently slowed down, desktop has declining during these three years. However, total pageviews have been slightly increasing year-over-year in the last few months.) See the chart below, updated with data until November: [image: Wikimedia monthly pageviews (desktop+mobile), 2013-2016 (version December 2016).png] In particular, as mentioned, the number of total pageview saw year-over-year increases of +2.1% for October and +4.8% in November, in contrast to e.g. the -10.5% we had for May 2015-May 2016. Now to the usual data. (All numbers below are averages for August 1-December 4, 2016 unless otherwise noted.) Pageviews Total: 529 million/day (+4.76% from the previous report timeframe, with corrected numbers for anomalously high traffic on some main pages <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T141506>) Context (April 2015-December 2016): See also the Vital Signs dashboard <https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/#projects=all/metric…> (Small caveats: iOS app’s pageviews were undercounted by about 1.6 million/day from mid September to early November due to a bug <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148663>.) Overall pageviews increased steadily during the timespan of this report aside from the week ending October 30th (right before Halloween) and the end of November. There appears to be a peak in pageviews in November. To facilitate our understanding of which traffic movements are seasonal and which may indicate lasting changes, here is a chart overlaying the total pageview numbers back to May 2013 (the earliest time for which we have data according to the current pageview definition): The blue line indicates a non-seasonal rise peaking around November 12. We checked whether this peak came from a particular country and were able to exclude that possibility. Wikimedia Daily Pageviews from US Pageviews in US do not show any drastic changes (even around the time of the US elections). Wikimedia Daily Pageviews from Mexico In Mexico, there seems to been a huge drop starting October 27th (perhaps some sort of local outage). Wikimedia Daily Pageviews from Ecuador Ecuador shows a huge spike on October 30th, followed by a drop for several days. Desktop: 54.1% (previous report: 54.1%) Mobile web: 44.8% (previous report: 44.6%) Apps: 1.1% (previous report: 1.3%) (missing some iOS pageviews, cf. above) Context (December 2015 - December 2016): Overall mobile percentage is similar to the last report, but we did see a small increase (besides one week in August) until late September. As a reminder, mobile already has a solid majority in terms of unique devices, cf. below. Global North ratio: 75.3% of total pageviews (previous report: 75.5%) Context (January - December 2016): There is a slight increase in Global North percentage in late October and November, but overall this number is relatively steady. NB: We are currently rethinking this metric and might replace it with a different country selection constructed as part of the work on the New Readers project. Unique devices See the announcement blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/30/unique-devices-dataset/> from March for background and details on this recently introduced metric. These estimated numbers are provided for all Wikimedia language projects (separately for the desktop and mobile web version). Because of the instrumentation method, there is no global metric for all projects and all languages, but following some recent discussions it is now planned <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138027> to extend it to a cross-language global metric per project at least. For now, we track the daily numbers of the English Wikipedia in this report. Daily unique devices estimate for English Wikipedia: - Mobile web: 33.9 million (previous report: 32.2 million) - Desktop: 24.1 million (previous report: 22.3 million) - Total: 57.9 million (previous report: 54.5 million) - Average mobile web ratio: 58.7% (previous report: 59.3%) Context (January- December 2016): This metric hasn’t existed long enough yet to get a good sense of what yearly seasonalities may exist, but since the last report time frame daily unique desktop devices show an increasing upward trend until early November, where there is a peak and then an apparent drop (which parallels the peak in pageviews). To understand the peak in daily unique devices, we plotted the ratio of daily pageviews to daily unique devices. There is a small bump in the mobile ratio in early November, but it is too small to fully explain the rise in pageviews around this time. New app installations Android: 19.9k/day (+1.21% from the previous report) Daily installs per device, from Google Play Context (last seven months): Download numbers increased in September and have sustained previous levels so far, possibly helped by the app’s inclusion on the Education category page <https://play.google.com/store/apps/category/EDUCATION> in Google’s Play Store. There was an additional bump in mid September (reason unknown). The number of daily uninstalls decreased slightly. During the timespan of the previous report, installs had markedly decreased (except for a so far unexplained bump during two weeks in July), which combined with the high uninstall numbers had caused the app’s install base to shrink from 15.5 million on March 31 to 15.1 million at the beginning of August. This trend has now been stopped, although the number was still at 15.1 million on November. (Google has since discontinued <https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7003402#acti…> this “current installs” metric in favor of a new “installs on active devices" metric.) iOS: 6.35k/day (+99.9% from the previous report) Download numbers from App Annie Daily downloads (with the largest countries broken out): [image: Wikipedia iOS app daily downloads by country, Aug 1 ~ Dec 7, 2016 (App Annie).png] The iOS Wikipedia app was promoted on iTunes in September, with huge impact (twice as many downloads than resulted from a comparable promotion in September 2015). Total daily downloads remained on a higher level afterwards (4.8k/day during the last week of this report, Nov 28-Dec 4). Around October 24, downloads from the US spiked, possibly helped by some organic media coverage such as this <http://thetechbeard.com/best-free-ios-10-widgets/>. On November 11, we registered an extra 9000 downloads from Sweden, for unknown reasons (no app store promotions or media coverage that we are aware of). App user retention Android: 16.4% (previous report: 16.7%) (Ratio of app installs opened again 7 days after installation, among all installed one week before a date that falls within this report. 1:100 sample) Context (last seven months): As remarked in earlier reports, this data is a bit too noisy for drawing conclusions about whether retention changed significantly between different releases. Retention appears to have dropped somewhat in September after having gradually grown earlier during the timespan of the last report and after. iOS: N/A <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126693> (We recently began measuring this on the iOS app - using the same method as on Android, restricted to users who opt-in to data collection - but there is not enough data yet.) Unique app users Android: 1.146 million / day (+0.0% from the previous report) Context (last six months): In September/October, there seems to be a very small growth in daily average users. iOS: N/A <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130432> Zareen Farooqui, Data Analyst Intern, Wikimedia Foundation Tilman Bayer, Senior Analyst, Wikimedia Foundation Data sources For reference, the queries and source links used are listed below (access is needed for each). Unless otherwise noted, all content of this report is © Wikimedia Foundation and released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. Most of the above charts are available on Commons, too. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_readership_metrics_re…> SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, sum(IF(access_method <> 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS mobileviews, SUM(view_count) AS allviews FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year>0 AND agent_type = 'user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT LEFT(timestamp, 10) AS date, sum(IF(access_method <> 'desktop', pageviews, null)) AS mobileviews, SUM(pageviews) AS allviews FROM staging.pageviews05 WHERE is_spider = FALSE AND is_automata = FALSE GROUP BY date; Pivot URLs: United States <https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#pageviews-daily/line-chart/2/EQUQLgxg9AqgKgYWA…> Mexico <https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#pageviews-daily/line-chart/2/EQUQLgxg9AqgKgYWA…> Ecuador <https://pivot.wikimedia.org/#pageviews-daily/line-chart/2/EQUQLgxg9AqgKgYWA…> SELECT access_method, SUM(view_count)/(7*18) FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE agent_type = 'user' AND CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) BETWEEN "2016-08-01" AND "2016-12-04" GROUP BY access_method; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")), SUM(view_count) AS all, SUM(IF (FIND_IN_SET(country_code, 'AD,AL,AT,AX,BA,BE,BG,CH,CY,CZ,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FO,FR,FX,GB, GG,GI,GL,GR,HR,HU,IE,IL,IM,IS,IT,JE,LI,LU,LV,MC,MD,ME,MK,MT, NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,RS,RU,SE,SI,SJ,SK,SM,TR,VA,AU,CA,HK,MO,NZ,JP,SG,KR,TW,US') > 0, view_count, 0)) AS Global_North_views FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year > 0 AND agent_type='user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, SUM(IF(uri_host LIKE 'en.m.wikipedia%', uniques_estimate, 0)) AS enwiki_mobile_web FROM wmf.last_access_uniques_daily WHERE year=2016 GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, SUM(IF(uri_host LIKE 'en.wikipedia%', uniques_estimate, 0)) AS enwiki_desktop FROM wmf.last_access_uniques_daily WHERE year=2016 GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) AS date, SUM(IF(access_method = 'mobile web', view_count, null)) AS mobilewebviews, SUM(IF(access_method = 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS desktopviews FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year=2016 AND agent_type = 'user' AND project = 'en.wikipedia' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT LEFT(timestamp, 8) AS date, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 0, 1, 0)) AS day0_active, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 7, 1, 0)) AS day7_active FROM log.MobileWikiAppDailyStats_12637385 WHERE timestamp LIKE '201510%' AND userAgent LIKE '%-r-%' AND userAgent NOT LIKE '%Googlebot%' GROUP BY date ORDER BY DATE; (with the retention rate calculated as day7_active divided by day0_active from seven days earlier, of course) https://analytics.itunes.apple.com/#/retention?app=324715238 SELECT CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, unique_count AS Android_DAU FROM wmf.mobile_apps_uniques_daily WHERE platform = 'Android'; https://console.developers.google.com/storage/browser/pubsite_prod_rev_ 02812522755211381933/stats/installs/ (“overview”) https://www.appannie.com/dashboard/252257/item/324715238/downloads/ (select “Total”) Zareen Farooqui

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[Apps] New Android production release
by Dmitry Brant 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Hi all, We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>, rolling out now to the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights from this update (or browse the complete change history <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.4.183-…> ): - Full support for Android 7 (Nougat). - Support for announcements in the Explore feed. - Improved system notifications for Wikipedia Zero. - Home screen widgets are now resizable. - Improved animations when dismissing/restoring cards in the feed. - Internal overhaul of network functions for improved performance. - Numerous fixes for bugs and crashes. Please note that as of this release, we will no longer provide updates for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and below, and will only support Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) and higher. Special thanks to the volunteer contributors who submitted patches for this release: Amir Aharoni (IRC: aharoni, Wikipedia User:Amire80) Anirudh S (https://github.com/anirudh24seven) Himanshu Lakhara (https://plus.google.com/+HimanshuLakhara) Kunal Grover (https://github.com/kunalgrover05) Odysseas Kristalakos (https://github.com/OdysseasKr) If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting started <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…> guide. We're looking forward to your contributions! [1] For devices without Google Play services, you may download <https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.…> the app directly. Cheers, -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering

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Fwd: Cancellation of January 2017 CREDIT showcase
by Adam Baso 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Cross post. No CREDIT showcase January 2017. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 11:06 AM Subject: Cancellation of January 2017 CREDIT showcase To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi all - just a quick note we'll cancel the January 2017 CREDIT showcase <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase> session. January is practically speaking really hard for ensuring that it works for most schedules. Meanwhile, be on the lookout for a survey for reflection on 2016's CREDIT. Thanks! -Adam

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