Mobile-l April 2018

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Readers Monthly update for March 2018

by Chris Koerner

Hello friends, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for March 2018. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. === Apps=== * iOS and Android apps are finishing up and about to release synced Reading Lists to stores in mid April. [0] * iOS will begin working on user-customizable Explore feed in their next release (similar to what is available on Android now). * Android is working on improved user experience, especially improving support for multi-lingual users. === Web === * Published the results of the Page previews a/b test on English and German Wikipedia [1] * Deployed html Page previews to all Wikipedias - now, all html within the article summary will show in Page previews. This fixes a number of outstanding bugs related to mathematical and chemical formulas, bolding, etc. [2] * Made changes main page of Hindi Wikipedia on the mobile website [3] * Updated the modal for page issues to improve readability [4] === Reading Infrastructure === * The Reading Lists Service has a dashboard. [5] * The ability to override Wikidata descriptions was added to English Wikipedia. [6] * TemplateStyles were enabled on all Wikivoyages. [7] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [8] == Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Josh Minor, product owner of the iOS App, wrote an article about his experiences [9] * Brad Jorsch, Adam Basso, and Gergö Tisza wrote a blog post [10] * From New Readers, Anne Gomez had two posts, one about the Orange Foundation’s work in Africa [11] and one about User:Doc James' efforts to expanding the reach of Wikipedia's medical information. [12] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/2017-18_A/B_Tests [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182319 [3] https://hi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/मुखपृष्ठ [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues#Upda… [5] https://grafana-admin.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/reading-list-service [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189834 [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [9] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/28/pming-in-public/ [10] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/26/responsive-web-design-templatestyles/ [11] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/offline-access-digital-schools/ [12] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/13/offline-access-medical-information/ --- Subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Readers_Monthly 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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Fwd: mustache.js replaced with JavaScript template literals in Extension:Popups

by Stephen Niedzielski

Cross post. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Stephen Niedzielski <sniedzielski(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:29 PM Subject: mustache.js replaced with JavaScript template literals in Extension:Popups To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello! We recently replaced our Mustache templates with ES6 syntax in Extension:Popups. You can read all about it in Phame: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/90/ mustache.js_replaced_with_javascript_template_literals_in_extension_popups/ -Stephen

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