Mobile-l October 2017

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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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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Print styles reminder
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 06 Dec '17

06 Dec '17

Chris Koerner, 05/10/2017 22:32: > [1]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Print_Styles#Desktop_… This and <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173909#3548401> do not provide much clarity, at least to me. If there are some recommendations/requests for local CSS/HTML styles or for content, they should be documented in an approporiate manual or help page, for instance: <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/IDs_and_classes> Nemo

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[Android] New Beta release
by Dmitry Brant 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

Hi everyone, The Android team has released a new version of the Wikipedia Beta <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta> app, available now on the Google Play Store! Here are the highlights from this update: - New: app shortcuts ("Search", "Random", and "Continue reading"). Press and hold the app icon on your home screen to access these shortcuts, and even place the shortcuts themselves on your home screen. - Improved speed of loading larger articles. - Optionally dim images when using dark theme. Access this option in the app settings, or in the Font and Theme dialog when reading an article. - Streamlined designs and color scheme in Light and Dark mode. - Improved management of reading lists. - Fixed several issues with language variants, specifically with Traditional and Simplified Chinese. - Numerous additional bug fixes. This release also contains patches from these repeat contributors: - Jorge Casariego, IRC: Jcasariego, Github: https://github.com/jorgecasariego - Yashasvi, https://about.me/yashasvigirdhar *Important note*: We are planning for this release to be the last update that supports versions of Android older than KitKat (that is, Android Jelly Bean and below). After this update, users of Jelly Bean and below will still be able to install our app from the Play Store, but it will be frozen at this version, and will no longer receive updates. Cheers, -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia for iOS named an Editor's Choice
by Rita Ho 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Congrats iOS team, awesome news! 🍎💕 On 28 Oct. 2017 10:42, <mobile-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: Send Mobile-l mailing list submissions to mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to mobile-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at mobile-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Mobile-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikipedia for iOS named an Editor's Choice (Toby Negrin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 08:42:31 +0000 From: Toby Negrin <tnegrin(a)wikimedia.org> To: Cooltey Feng <cfeng(a)wikimedia.org>, sharan(a)wikimedia.org Cc: Mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia for iOS named an Editor's Choice Message-ID: <CAAjh0Ew-ApAKtVMA=WY3tZoKEaJEk0RKf_O7p__H4uCR_O9Asg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" This is really impressive and represents a lot of great work. Congratulations to the iOS team! -Toby On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 06:36 <sharan(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Way to go team iOS ! 🍾 > > > On Oct 27, 2017 at 4:00 PM, <Cooltey Feng <cfeng(a)wikimedia.org>> wrote: > > Congrats!!!🎊 > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Ramsey Isler <risler(a)wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Excellent! Congrats to everyone involved. :) >> >> >> On Saturday, October 28, 2017, Joshua Minor <jminor(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> Hello mobile Wikimedians, >>> >>> Today Apple named the official Wikipedia app an Editor's Choice. This is >>> the highest level of recognition for an app by Apple, and gets us a special >>> badge and placements in the App Store. In their email to me about the >>> change they explained that they wanted to recognize the great improvements >>> to the app on iOS and particularly our work on accessibility over the last >>> couple years. >>> >>> This is great recognition for the team's and volunteer contributor's >>> work, but more importantly, puts Wikipedia in its rightful place as a first >>> class citizen on the App Store. Its an honor to build an app for something >>> as beloved and awesome as Wikimedia, and we're so gratified to see our >>> efforts to make the Wikipedia app beautiful, and usefu,l to iOS users >>> acknowledged like this. >>> >>> >>> [image: Inline image 1] >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mobile-l mailing list >> Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> >> > > > -- > Cooltey Feng > Software Engineer > Readers > Wikimedia Foundation > cfeng(a)wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- -Toby

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia for iOS named an Editor's Choice
by sharan＠wikimedia.org 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Way to go team iOS ! 🍾 > > On Oct 27, 2017 at 4:00 PM, <Cooltey Feng (mailto:cfeng@wikimedia.org)> wrote: > > > > Congrats!!!🎊 > > > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Ramsey Isler <risler(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:risler@wikimedia.org)> wrote: > > > Excellent! Congrats to everyone involved. :) > > > > > > > > On Saturday, October 28, 2017, Joshua Minor <jminor(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:jminor@wikimedia.org)> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello mobile Wikimedians, > > > > > > > > > Today Apple named the official Wikipedia app an Editor's Choice. This is the highest level of recognition for an app by Apple, and gets us a special badge and placements in the App Store. In their email to me about the change they explained that they wanted to recognize the great improvements to the app on iOS and particularly our work on accessibility over the last couple years. > > > > > > > > > > > > This is great recognition for the team's and volunteer contributor's work, but more importantly, puts Wikipedia in its rightful place as a first class citizen on the App Store. Its an honor to build an app for something as beloved and awesome as Wikimedia, and we're so gratified to see our efforts to make the Wikipedia app beautiful, and usefu,l to iOS users acknowledged like this. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mobile-l mailing list > > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org (mailto:Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > > > > > -- > > > > > Cooltey Feng > Software Engineer > Readers > Wikimedia Foundation > cfeng(a)wikimedia.org (mailto:cfeng@wikimedia.org) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >

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Wikipedia for iOS named an Editor's Choice
by Joshua Minor 27 Oct '17

27 Oct '17

Hello mobile Wikimedians, Today Apple named the official Wikipedia app an Editor's Choice. This is the highest level of recognition for an app by Apple, and gets us a special badge and placements in the App Store. In their email to me about the change they explained that they wanted to recognize the great improvements to the app on iOS and particularly our work on accessibility over the last couple years. This is great recognition for the team's and volunteer contributor's work, but more importantly, puts Wikipedia in its rightful place as a first class citizen on the App Store. Its an honor to build an app for something as beloved and awesome as Wikimedia, and we're so gratified to see our efforts to make the Wikipedia app beautiful, and usefu,l to iOS users acknowledged like this. [image: Inline image 1]

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Wikipedia v5.7.0 for iOS published to App Store
by Joshua Minor 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Howdy mobile Wikimedians, The latest update for the Wikipedia iOS app is now available on the App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=32471523… Version 5.7.0 includes major improvements to our sharing experience, including a easier to read, and better attributed, "share-a-fact" card. We also redesigned our first-time installer experience, based on user research, to make it more informative and easier to navigate. This version also includes a ton of bug fixes, including a handful of iOS 11 related issues. *If you use iOS 11 we recommend you update to this version.* Finally, this update is ready for iPhone X, so Wikipedia will look and work great when they start selling them next week. As always, thanks to our volunteer contributors, bug reporters, translators and testers. Cheers, Josh

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Google Code-in: Get your tasks for young contributors prepared!
by Andre Klapper 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Google Code-in is an annual contest for 13-17 year old students. It will take place from Nov28 to Jan17 and is not only about coding tasks. While we wait whether Wikimedia will get accepted: * You have small, self-contained bugs you'd like to see fixed? * Your documentation needs specific improvements? * Your user interface has small design issues? * Your Outreachy/Summer of Code project welcomes small tweaks? * You'd enjoy helping someone port your template to Lua? * Your gadget code uses some deprecated API calls? * You have tasks in mind that welcome some research? Also note that "Beginner tasks" (e.g. "Set up Vagrant" etc) and "generic" tasks are very welcome (e.g. "Choose & fix 2 PHP7 issues from the list in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120336 "). Because we will need hundreds of tasks. :) And we also have more than 400 unassigned open 'easy' tasks listed: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/HCyOonSbFn.z/#R Would you be willing to mentor some of those in your area? Please take a moment to find / update [Phabricator etc.] tasks in your project(s) which would take an experienced contributor 2-3 hours. Check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/Mentors and please ask if you have any questions! For some achievements from last round, see https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/02/03/google-code-in/ Thanks!, andre -- Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Wikipedia app v5.7.0 released to beta
by Joshua Minor 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hello mobile wikimedians, Today the Wikipedia iOS team released an initial beta of our upcoming version, 5.7.0 This update includes: - simpler, easier to use, sharing, including an updated design to our share-a-fact cards - a new first time user on-boarding based on user research about what people need and want to know about the app when they install it the first time - support for iOS 11 Smart Invert accessibility mode, along with other fixes for iOS 11 users - support for the iPhone X form factor - improved and expanded swipe gestures for sharing and saving articles - a veritable cornucopia of small bug fixes and usability improvements If you're already a tester, please install this update and let us know if you encounter any issues. Or, if you'd like to become a beta tester please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW7zFnUDYABvHLWlFclZ7O JEK82WjVIjs_dSzwIDM0Hnz31A/viewform Thanks, Josh Minor Product Manager, Wikipedia for iOS

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Readers monthly update for September 2017
by Chris Koerner 04 Oct '17

04 Oct '17

Greetings, I'm here again with the monthly update from the Readers department. **New**: You can now subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email! Handy if you subscribe to the digest of this mailing list or don't visit the archive frequently. Subscribe on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Readers_Monthly Thanks for reading, as always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Discussions== === Apps=== * '''Android''': Progress being made with the Offline Library feature. There's a video demo and more information on Mediawiki.org. [0] [1] ===Web=== * We've updated the visual design for hatnotes on the mobile website to distinguish them from the remainder of the content. [2] * Due to issues with our current PDF rendering system, we will be pausing rendering for the book creator for the time being, until we can identify a proper solution. More information can be found on the project page. [3] * We have been planning and making roadmap updates for the updated mobile website project. [4] === Reading Infrastructure === * Reading Lists have been announced to the Wikipedia projects. [5] [6] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [7] === Multimedia === * In preparation for 3D object files on commons a short 30 minute read-only period for Commons will happen on October 11th. [8] * Community feedback is wanted on an update to the upload process on Commons for 3D objects [9] === Discovery === The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month. * 2017-09-11 [10] * 2017-09-18 [11] * 2017-09-25 [12] -- [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESP20HGPiE [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173600 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/NewMobileWebsite [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Reading_List_Discussion [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Read-only_Commons_i… [9] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Input_requested_on_… [10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-09-11 [11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-09-18 [12] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-09-25 --- The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Status_updates Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation

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