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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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iOS 5.0.3 beta update
by Joshua Minor 30 Apr '16

30 Apr '16

Hello mobile Wikimedians, The iOS team is glad to announce a second beta release for the upcoming 5.0.3 version of the app. 5.0.3 is a minor release to address bugs and usability issues reported by users. We've fixed the Main Pages so that they update as expected, patched an issue with log-ins and fixed some crashes, especially with image display. In addition to bug fixes, this release also adds text size adjustment for articles, supports iPad split-view multi-tasking, and gives users much more control over language preferences (including re-order and deletion). We also enabled support for Myanmar (my) and Khmer (km) language Wikipedias. This is our release candidate build for this version, so if you are a beta tester please take a moment to install from TestFlight soon. Testers can provide feedback at this form: http://goo.gl/forms/rLVmFLzus2 Oh, or just respond to this email... If you are not a tester but want to be, please sign up here: http://goo.gl/forms/eAN1qjcm7I Thanks, Wikimedia Foundation iOS team

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom RFC update #6
by Adam Baso 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Cross posting in case you don't follow wikitech-l.The following looks to be up for discussion today on #wikimedia-office: *** T122942: RFC: Support language variants in the REST API ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rob Lanphier <robla(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 6:19 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] ArchCom RFC update #6 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, Here is the RFC status update from last week's ArchCom meeting (E165). This is pretty much what is posted on-wiki [1], where everything has links. Rob ---- ==== Today's IRC session ==== ** April 20 [[Phab:E66/31]] *** T91162: RFC: Shadow namespaces ==== Queue for future RfC office hours ==== ** April 27: [[Phab:E66/32]] *** T122942: RFC: Support language variants in the REST API ** May 4: [[Phab:E66/33]] *** T130528: RFC: PSR-6 Cache interface in Mediawiki core ==== Under discussion ==== :Daniel: [[Phab:T124752]] ::Let’s turn the “Changes Tags” refactoring proposed by [ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/owner:cenarium.sysop%2540gmail.com+statu… Cenarium] into an RFC and get it unstuck. Chain of patches starts at https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/201905/64; The patch refers to [[Phab:T91535]] but the topic is broader than that, and the ticket doesn’t fully describe the proposed solution. Needs work. : Tim: shepherding two for Parser. will pick another : Roan: [[Phab:T108655]] still need to split it so discussion can take place on part 2 ==== Other status ==== The "RFC inbox" was empty, nothing "Entering Final Comment Period", and we didn't discuss the "no activity" list [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee/2016-04-20#RFC_status… _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Different testing approaches
by Adam Baso 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

Hi there - I had a follow up action from a backlog grooming meeting today regarding https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133023. We're taking the discussion about this task to mobile-l and qa where we can make sure our discussion is documented and also get some additional opinions. Proper test coverage and test coverage maintenance is a mildly complex topic, to put it lightly, but let's see if we can discuss here on mobile-l and qa lists and figure out how to tackle these sorts of tasks. -Adam

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Help test AuthManager
by Gergo Tisza 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

Hi all, AuthManager is coming soon (see the recent wikitech email [1] for more details), which means mobile login and registration (whether API- or specialpage-based) will have to adapt to the increased flexibility of the authentication system. The new web-based login page uses HTMLForm to generate the fields (the vform flavor, for now); I'm hoping that works acceptably on mobile. Unfortunately none of us working on AuthManager have a lot of experience with mobile design, nor have access to a large variety of devices, so we would very much appreciate any help with testing, or pointers on what to look for. If you are interested, the current test site is at http://authmanager.wmflabs.org/ with a mobile version at http://mobile-authmanager.wmflabs.org/ . [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085337.html

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New iOS Beta 5.0.3
by Corey Floyd 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hello, mobile Wikimedians, The iOS team is excited to announce the first beta of our upcoming 5.0.3 release. 5.0.3 is a minor release to address bugs and usability issues reported by users. We've fixed the Main Pages so that they update as, patched an issue with log-ins and fixed some crashes, especially with image display. In addition to bug fixes, this release also adds text size adjustment for articles, supports iPad split-view multi-tasking, and gives users much more control over language preferences (including re-order and deletion). We are working on a few more changes, but wanted to get this in testers hands while we finish up. If you are not already a beta tester, and would like to join, please sign up here: http://goo.gl/forms/eAN1qjcm7I Feedback about the beta can be given via this form: http://goo.gl/forms/rLVmFLzus2 Thanks, Corey -- Corey Floyd Software Engineer Mobile Apps / iOS Wikimedia Foundation

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mobile-l:项目管理实战操作
by pftkoq 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Engineering] Deprecating rest.wikimedia.org in favor of /api/rest_v1/
by Marko Obrovac 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

Hello, On 15 April 2016 at 01:04, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Final reminder on this: We are planning to finally sunset > rest.wikimedia.org in the week starting April 25th, 1 1/2 weeks from > now. Please move your REST API clients to /api/rest_v1/ at the regular > project domains instead! > This will happen in a week's time. We are, however, still observing quite a volume of requests for mobile sections endpoints using the rest.wikimedia.org domain. Specifically, almost all of the requests are asking for resources pertaining to the de.wikipedia.org domain. Unfortunately no user-agent header is provided so we are not able to pin-point the client. Please ensure your clients point to https://{domain}/api/rest_v1/ instead of https://rest.wikimedia.org/{domain}/v1/. Cheers, Marko > > Thanks, > > Gabriel > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > We have decided to officially retire the rest.wikimedia.org domain in > > favor of /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain. For example, > > > > > > https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc > > > > becomes > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc > > > > Most clients already use the new path, and benefit from better > > performance from geo-distributed caching, no additional DNS lookups, > > and sharing of TLS / HTTP2 connections. > > > > We intend to shut down the rest.wikimedia.org entry point around > > March, so please adjust your clients to use /api/rest_v1/ soon. > > > > Thank you for your cooperation, > > > > Gabriel > > > > -- > > Gabriel Wicke > > Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation > > > > -- > Gabriel Wicke > Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Engineering mailing list > Engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > -- Marko Obrovac, PhD Senior Services Engineer Wikimedia Foundation

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