Mobile-l August 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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Readers as contributors
by Moushira Elamrawy 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello Everyone, I am writing to share with you an effort from the Android team to start identifying themes of products <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions> [0] that would allow readers to create micro-contributions that are welcomed and actually needed by fellow Wikipedia editors. The team has already identified 18 ideas as examples of tasks readers can do to help editors, we would like to expand the conversation to help us evaluate the importance of the idea*s*. While thinking, the team already had criteria for evaluating the ideas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions/Reading_team_t…>, but this is still missing community input on how ideas are evaluated and what would actually get high votes for being something that matters, in order for the team to start working on. Please feel encouraged to add more ideas and adjust criteria for evaluation if needed. This work is a continuation of the reading consultation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Interaction_Consultation> earlier done in April. The team is excited to continue the conversation early with the community in order to define product themes. Ideas promoted from this conversation will be designed in Android first, given the consideration of lower traffic and relative ease of implementation, but the team will be excited and watching for lessons learned in order to move ideas to the web. This work is made possible by Jon Katz, Reading team's senior PM, and Dmitry Brant, the product owner of Android. Thanks for their thoughtful and collaborative approach". We will allow the conversation to run for a month, after which we can already start exploring ideas for implementation in Q3. Please help spread the word across village pumps. Looking forward to your input -- Best, Moushira Community Liaison for Reading team [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_ contributions/Reading_team_thoughts [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Interaction_Consultation

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Wikipedia app for iOS v5.1.0 released
by Joshua Minor 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello, This morning the WMF's iOS app team released version 5.1.0 to the app store [1] This version includes: *- Search within articles!!!* - New designs to make reading and exploring on iPads even better - Faster browsing for users with large histories and saved page libraries - Nearby recommendations that are more relevant to your current location - Ability for 3rd party apps to open specific articles or searches via URL - Lots of other small fixes! Special thanks to volunteer contributors kevintaniguchi and jberkel for their excellent additions! And as always thanks to our beta testers for your bug reports and feedback. [1] - https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 Thanks, Josh Minor PM, Wikipedia for iOS

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ZIM format now allows inclusion of fulltext search index was: [Offline-l] [INFO] ZIM standard library 1.3 is out!
by rupert THURNER 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

fyi. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org> Date: Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:59 AM Subject: [Offline-l] [INFO] ZIM standard library 1.3 is out! To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline < offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net" < kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, "kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH <wikimediach-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi After almost two years since the last release, the new libzim is out: http://www.openzim.org/download/zimlib-1.3.tar.gz This new release brings a few improvements and bugs fixes: * FIXED: zimdump crash with long filenames * FIXED: few portability issues * NEW: method to get real file offset of article in ZIM * NEW: smarter article cluster building (+5% compression) * NEW: one pass writing process (instead of two) These improvements allow easier: * new bindings (like node-libzim) * new features of the ZIM format, like integrating the fulltext search index * creation of more ZIM files (speed-up ZIM creation) This improvements have been done by a few developers mostly during our Kiwix hackathon @Wikimania Esino. This has been made possible with the support of: * Fondation Orange * Wikimedia CH * Wikimedia Foundation * Bibliothèque sans frontière More information about the project openZIM and the ZIM format at: http://www.openzim.org/ Regards Emmanuel Engelhart -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list Offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l

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Mobile site is now lazy loading images
by Jon Robson 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

FYI after much experimentation, research and testing the mobile site has been lazy loading images [1] since Thursday 18th August. This means if you do not see an image you will not download it. We have taken care to ensure users without JavaScript can still view images and that most users will barely notice the difference. We are currently crunching the data this change has made and we plan to write a blog post to reporting the results. In our experiments on Japanese Wikipedia we saw a drop in image bytes per page view by 54% On the Japanese Japan article bytes shipped to users dropped from 1.443 MB to 142 kB. This is pretty huge since bytes equate to money [3] and we expect this to be significant on wikis where mobile data is more expensive. In a nutshell Wikipedia mobile is cheaper. As I said blog post to follow once we have more information, but please report any bugs you are seeing with the implementation (we have already found a few thanks to our community of editors). ~Jon [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Performance/Lazy_loadin… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Lazy_loading_of_images_on_Japane… [3] https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/

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Wikipedia app for iOS v5.1 beta 3
by Joshua Minor 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello mobile Wikimedians, We've just posted another beta to TestFlight for the next release of the Wikipedia app for iOS. We expect this to be the final beta before we release to 5.1 to the store next week. This release includes: - Search for text within page - Major improvements to reading and browsing experience on iPads - Performance improvements for user with large numbers of Saved and Recent pages - Make most recent Nearby item in the feed a little more "near" - Ability for other apps to open the Wikipedia app to specific articles or even search results (huge thanks to contributor jberkel) - Many other small bug fixes and improvements Thanks, Josh Minor Product Manager

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mobile-l:入职前后用人单位应告知劳动者哪些情况，如何保留证据？ kpizlp
by ao 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

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Wikipedia for iOS 5.1 beta update
by Joshua Minor 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Hello, A fresh version of our upcoming 5.1 release should now be available to Beta testers via TestFlight. This version improves the reading and Explore experience for large screen devices and add find-in-page functionality to the article toolbar. As always we appreciate our testers feedback, bug reports and support. Especially if you use the app on a tablet or Plus device! Thanks and have a nice weekend, Josh Minor PM, Wikipedia app for iOS

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[Apps] New Android production release
by Dmitry Brant 19 Aug '16

19 Aug '16

Hi everyone, 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] This version contains the following updates: - Added a button at the top of the Explore feed for quick access to your list of open tabs. - The Tabs button now shows the number of active tabs that you've opened. - Cards dismissed from the Explore feed (swiped away) are now correctly remembered when refreshing the feed or reloading the app. - Miscellaneous bug fixes. Want to help make the app even better? Read our getting-started guide <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…>, and start contributing! [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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