Hi
We have released this week a new version of Kiwix for Android. This
release introduced many improvements which have been developed by our 3
developers participating to the Wikimedia hackathon in Jerusalem.
Here the list of improvements:
FIXED: Bookmark icon correctly updates when switching tabs
* NEW: Tabs reopen as you left them after app restart
* NEW: Undo tab deletions with one click
* NEW: Table of contents for articles accessed by swiping left
* NEW: Improved Bookmark System
* NEW: Back and forward buttons show as disabled if unusable
* NEW: Real time permission requests for Android Marshmallow
* NEW: Asks the user if they would consider rating the app
We also have created to new custom apps (Kiwix+content):
* In French, "Encyclopédie de la Tunisie"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomtunisie
* In Spanish, "Enciclopedia de Venezuela"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixcustomvenezuela
Custom apps are really appreciated by their respective users. The most
successful of them, "Medical Wikipedia" done in collaboration with the
WikiMed project has recently reach the TOP10 Wikipedia apps on Google
Play. The effort to release new custom apps will therefore continue and
we want to reach a dozen of apps at the end of this year.
Regards
Emmanuel
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* Web: http://www.kiwix.org
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline
* more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication
Hi everyone,
In the last few weeks, we've been rolling out the ability of our Android
app to connect to the Mobile Content Service[0], built on RESTBase[1], for
retrieving article content, and the rollout is now complete. Over the
course of the next day or so, the app installed on your device should
seamlessly switch over to using MCS instead of the MediaWiki (mobileview)
API.[2]
While this change won't affect your day-to-day browsing, it does mean that
several additional features that were dependent on the content service will
now become enabled in the app! These include:
- *Definitions of words from Wiktionary*. Tap-and-hold any word in an
article to highlight it, then tap the "Define" button to see a popup
definition of the highlighted word. (Note: this is currently enabled only
for English Wikipedia articles)
- If an article has a recorded *audio pronunciation* of its title included
in it, the app will display an "audio" button next to the article title.
Tap the button to play back the pronunciation.
- If an article has *geo coordinates* associated with it, the app will
display a "pin" button below the article title. Tapping this button will
open the default maps app on your device, and navigate to the coordinates
of the article.
Many thanks to the Services team for helping us reach this important
milestone, and props to our own Bernd and Michael for their efforts to get
this done. This will enable us to build future service-based features much
more easily, and it's our hope that the content service will be adopted by
many other consumers, not just the Android app.
[0] https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc#/Mobile
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase
[2] This is done within the app itself, and does not require an update from
the Play store.
Cheers,
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Dmitry Brant
Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
Barbara Martina Rodeker, 07/04/2016 16:59:
> I need some pieces of advise about where to go for documentation
> about Wikibooks APIs. If anybody could point me to some links to start
> with I'll be very grateful. What I would like to do if to access
> wikibooks lists / categories / access a particular book.
Hi! Why are you asking in the mobile list?
Anyway, Wikibooks doesn't rely on any particular extension much, hence
you're looking for the standard MediaWiki core API modules such as
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Categorymembers .
Nemo
Forwarding, as the summary of the eyetracking research might be of interest
to the WMF Reading team and other people on this list
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From: Mohammed Sadat <masssly(a)ymail.com>
Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:37 PM
Subject: The Wikimedia Research Newsletter 6(3) is out
To: Wikimedia Research Mailing List <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Tilman Bayer <tbayer(a)wikimedia.org>, Dario Taraborelli <
dtaraborelli(a)wikimedia.org>
The March 2016 issue of the Wikimedia Research Newsletter is out:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/02/research-newsletter-march-2016/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2016/March
In this issue:
1 "Employing Wikipedia for good not evil: innovative approaches to
collaborative writing assessment"
2 Using eyetracking to find out how Wikipedia articles are being read
*** 9 recent publications were covered or listed in this issue ***
Thanks to Piotr Konieczny for contributing.
Masssly, Tilman Bayer and Dario Taraborelli
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Hello everyone,
Related pages feature has been in beta for over two months now, the future
of the feature depends on our discussions. While we currently don't have a
clear process for deciding collaboratively on an all languages product,
Alsee and the reading team have put together this document on meta [0], as
a request for comment, seeking comments and ideas on modifications
required, and how to further test the feature. In fact, we are not sure if
an rfc is the best strategy to move forward with product decisions, but
lets see how the discussion evolves, and we might explore the need for a
different process, as we move on with this one.
We managed to translate a brief introduction about the topic, please feel
free to fully translate the document and/or further promote the discussion
on your wiki. We are trying hard to avoid having an English centric
discussion for a feature that could be available across all language
projects, and while we don't have a clear solution for this, we are trying
this method as an experiment, where at least our communities can leave
comments in their preferred language if they aren't comfortable writing in
English but they can understand it.
Please check the page, help with translation or promotion in your
Wikipedia, and most importantly, comment on how you think it can evolve. :)
Lets see how this works!
All the best,
M
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Related_Pages
[Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to anybody who might be interested.]
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Website: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/icdipc2016/
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TOPICS:
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