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
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Hi everyone,
We're pleased to announce our latest update to the Wikipedia Android app
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>, now
available on the Google Play store! (For devices without Google Play
services, you may download
<https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.…>
the app directly)
The major highlight from this update is: *synchronized reading lists*!
Articles that you add (or have already added) to your reading lists can now
be synchronized to your Wikipedia account, so that your reading list
collection will always be available on any device on which you use the app,
whether it's an Android or iOS device (<- separate announcement
forthcoming).
You should see a prompt to enable syncing when you install or upgrade the
app, or you may enable/disable the sync feature in the app settings.
As a reminder, articles that you add to reading lists are also saved for
offline reading by default, so that you can access them even without
internet connectivity. You may also control which lists are saved offline
by going to the "My lists" tab and tapping the overflow menu (three dots)
next to each list.
Cheers, and happy reading!
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Senior Software Engineer (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
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As mentioned earlier today on list, the Wikipedia iOS app has a major
update, v5.8.0, now available on the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/
viewSoftware?id=324715238&mt=8
This release adds Reading Lists, which allow you to organize your saved
pages into folders. You can now also sort and search all your saved
articles, along with the new lists. And most excitingly, users who log in
and opt-in to syncing can use this feature across mobile devices and
platforms. Save an article on your phone to read that night on your tablet.
Cross device rabbit hole!
Thanks to the Android and Reading Infrastructure teams for blazing the
trail and building the MediaWiki and service layers to enable this much
requested feature.
As always, thanks to our volunteer contributors, bug reporters, translators
and testers. Special shout out to volunteer dev Michalciurus for his
multiple code patches this version.
Cheers,
Josh Minor
PM, Wikipedia for iOS
Hi!
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be making technical improvements to the mobile web codebases
(MobileFrontend and MinervaNeue).
The project, which we’re calling ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend &
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MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue, which power the Wikimedia mobile sites, make
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past eight years of developing a mobile-first wiki experience we have
learnt and frontend technology has evolved. We will improve and modernize
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Please see Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 in the wiki page for more detail.
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Please visit the project page on MediaWiki.org to learn more about the
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Invest_in_the_MobileFro…
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Hey Jonas,
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:26 AM, Jonas Kress <jonas.kress(a)wikimedia.de>
wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I am interested in improving the patrolling workflow for mobile users of
> Wikidata and I wonder if you only plan to refactor[1] the code or if you
> also will improve the user experience?
>
This project is technical improvements only, so we are not expecting
workflow or feature changes on it.
That said, Audiences has a top level outcome (Outcome 3: Mobile
Contributing [1]) as I mentioned and the Readers Web team will be indeed
responsible for the related output "Output 3.1: Contribution tools on
mobile web via an existing mediawiki skin".
As far as I know at this point in time, the annual plan was just finalized.
I think the *outputs* will go to the planning and definition phase soon, in
preparation for next fiscal year. I think improving the patrolling workflow
for mobile web users could neatly fit under such Output, and would be a
great collaboration. I'll connect you with our PM so that we can talk about
specifics and see how we could help each other.
[1]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2018-2019/…
>
> Thanks,
> Jonas
>
> [1] https://dzone.com/articles/what-refactoring-and-what-it-0
>
> 2018-04-04 11:05 GMT+02:00 Derk-Jan Hartman <d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com>
> :
>
> > I really like all of these goals, but I have to say that many of them
> > seem to be a recurring theme (which to me is understandable, but maybe
> > not to others). I pose to you an additional challenge.. Don't do this
> > just to mobilefrontend/minervaneue. Do it to a component of core/an
> > extension as well (i'd pick something small, oft used, but not the
> > best maintained).
> >
> > 1. This will help expose you to any challenges that other parts of the
> > ecosystem have in following your direction.
> > 2. It will show the way. Examples are good teaching methods.
> > 3. A component that needs it, but might otherwise not get it, will get
> > some TLC
> > 4. It will close the mobile/desktop gap for whatever component you pick
> > 5. it will close the mobile/desktop gap in general.
> >
> > Because I think that if you don't expand on your target codebase, the
> > risk will be that you remain more isolated than you should be.
> >
> > DJ
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 7:40 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
> > <jhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Over the next fiscal year, the Wikimedia Foundation Readers Web team
> > will be
> > > making technical improvements to the mobile web codebases
> (MobileFrontend
> > > and MinervaNeue).
> > >
> > > The project, which we’re calling ‘Invest in the MobileFrontend &
> > MinervaNeue
> > > frontend architecture’, contained in Output 2.7 of the Platform
> Evolution
> > > CDP [1], is currently in its specification and planning stages. The
> > outcomes
> > > of the project are:
> > >
> > > 1. Improve developer experience (on-boarding, maintenance, development)
> > > 2. Reduce technical debt and make production improvements
> > > 3. Separate presentation and logic
> > > 4. Make Minerva and MobileFrontend better citizens of the MediaWiki
> > > ecosystem
> > >
> > > MobileFrontend & MinervaNeue, which power the Wikimedia mobile sites,
> > make
> > > heavy use of client-side UIs with templates, CSS and JavaScript. Over
> the
> > > past eight years of developing a mobile-first wiki experience we have
> > learnt
> > > and frontend technology has evolved. We will improve and modernize the
> > code
> > > bases to continue supporting our mobile web users in the future. Please
> > see
> > > Outcomes 1, 2 and 3 in the wiki page for more detail.
> > >
> > > Minerva will become an independent skin without a dependency on
> > > MobileFrontend, and vice versa. Please see Outcome 4 in the wiki page
> for
> > > more detail.
> > >
> > > Please visit the project page on MediaWiki.org to learn more about the
> > > outcomes and outputs, and share your questions. [2]
> > >
> > > N.B. This project is distinct from “Output 3.1: Contribution tools on
> > mobile
> > > web via an existing mediawiki skin” [3], described in the FY 2018-2019
> > plan.
> > >
> > > _____________________
> > > Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
> > > Senior Software Engineer, Readers Web
> > >
> > > [1]:
> > > https://wikifarm.wmflabs.org/platformevolution/index.php/
> > Plan:FY18-19/2/7
> > > [2]:
> > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/
> > Invest_in_the_MobileFrontend_%26_MinervaNeue_frontend_architecture
> > > [3]:
> > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> > Annual_Plan/2018-2019/Audiences#Outcome_3:_Mobile_Contributing
> > >
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