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From: Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 7:26 PM
Subject: [Analytics] Archiving some eventlogging tables to hadoop
To: A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an
interest in Wikipedia and analytics. <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Team:
Our mysql backend for eventlogging is having issues due to disk space. We
need to free space on near term so we will be archiving some tables to
hadoop.
Please see: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168303 and:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Systems/EventLogging#Hadoop._…
Thanks,
Nuria
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Cross-post.
-Adam
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From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:16 PM
Subject: Demo of offline in the Wikipedia for Android app
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all -
I wanted to share a cool demo with you recorded by Dmitry Brant from the
apps team at the Wikimedia Foundation. Dmitry demos an alpha version of the
app that adds support for offline ZIM files.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESP20HGPiE
The feature will be undergoing some changes based on the research Dmitry
mentions. To learn more about the research Dmitry mentions in the video,
see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_
support/V1_User_research.
Enjoy!
-Adam
Hello mobile Wikimedians,
Just published to the App Store, version 5.6.1 of the Wikipedia app is now
available for download: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/
id324715238?mt=8
This minor update includes...
- fixes and refinements to the dark reading appearance, especially for
tables and complex templates
- fix for occasional crash while switching languages while reading an
article
- added swipe to share or save search results right from the search
results screen
- volunteer contributed Today's Featured Article Widget for the iOS
Today screen
We've also been adding additional language support for "On this day" via
API updates. Recently added languages include Portuguese, Russian, Spanish
and Arabic.
As usual, thanks to our testers and translators. And super thanks to
volunteer contributor GianmarcoMsalerno for the patch!
Thanks,
Joshua Minor
PM, Wikipedia for iOS
Cross post.
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From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 11:29 AM
Subject: CREDIT showcase - replacing with smaller demos
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello -
I'm writing today to let you know that we're cancelling the recurring
CREDIT showcase (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase). Turnout
has been relatively low for a while, and it requires a fair amount of setup
each month.
Going forward, we'll return to the previous approach, which was having
individual teams sharing demo videos on their own. Please be on the lookout
for such demos along the way on wikitech-l.
In closing, I'd like to thank everyone who's participated in CREDIT in the
past. I've appreciated all of the hard work that goes into planning these
events and the neat things you've all shared along the way.
Thank you.
-Adam
apparently this didn't reach mobile-l
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From: Stephane Coillet-Matillon <stephane(a)kiwix.org>
Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:38 AM
Subject: [Offline-l] Wikimed Mini release
To: mobile-l <mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Using Wikimedia projects and
MediaWiki offline <offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
[Cross-post]
A quick note to announce that Kiwix released this morning a new version of
the Wikimed App called Wikimed Mini [1]. It basically complements the
earlier app in that it is 90% smaller and should therefore make it easier
to download and store by users who need it most (50% of installs for the
English version happen on the Indian subcontinent; for the French one, 80%
are in Africa).
But apart from this PSA I wanted to share the thinking that went behind the
design of this particular app, as I’ve been told it could be of interest to
this list:
There basically were three reasons for this "mini" version:
1. When connectivity is an issue, size does matter. If you look at the 20+
main offline medical apps out there, you'll see that they all range in the
25-40Mb (the largest being 120Mb). Several of them have 1M+ downloads, and
even if I am no physician I'd say their content is rather minimal and that
WP content is far better: yet people download the other, smaller apps
rather than our gigantic, all-encompassing 1.2 Gb one;
2. You may have heard that thing about 60% of mobile readers not going past
the Lead section [2]. We did too, and took the drastic step of removing
everything below that - basically keeping only the lead part and infobox.
That saved us about 60%;
3. Then we looked at what was left and figured that infobox illustrations
weren't that helpful: either because they look good but are not very
informative, or because if they are in fact informative offline limitations
make it impossible to see more than a thumbnail. Don't get me wrong: the
ability to see high-res images comes high on the list of requests, but a
choice was to be made and that one was a low-hanging fruit. So we removed
the illustations as well, and now we're left with a 90% smaller app.
In spite of its size, the current Wikimed is rated higher (4.7) and kept
longer (75% retention at D30) that most apps (4.2/20%, respectively on
average): we’ll keep you posted on how the new app fares in comparison to
that.
Cheers,
Stephane
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.
kiwix.kiwixcustomwikimedmini
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Which_parts_
of_an_article_do_readers_read
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From: Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 1:58 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Global preferences: request for feedback
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The Community Tech team is currently working on Global preferences, the #4
wish from the 2016 Community Wishlist Survey, and we've got a question for
folks who are interested in using the feature.
We're adapting an extension developed by Legoktm, updating the code and
making some changes to the interface. There'll be a new special page,
Special:GlobalPreferences, where you'll be able to set a preference on all
wikis at once. There's more description and screenshots on the project
page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_preferences
Our question is about how people might use local overrides for the global
preferences -- setting a preference as global, but making an exception for
one or more wikis. If that sounds like the kind of thing you would have an
opinion about :), then please check out this section:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Global_
preferences#For_discussion:_Local_overrides
and leave some feedback on the talk page. Of course, you can also feel free
to post any questions, suggestions or comments about the feature. Thanks!
Danny Horn
Senior Product Manager
WMF Community Tech
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Hello,
This morning the WMF's iOS app team pushed an initial beta of our upcoming
minor release to our TestFlight users. This update includes:
- various small fixes and refinements to the dark reading appearance,
especially for some tables and templates
- fix for occasional crash while switching languages while reading an
article
- added swipe to share or save search results right from the search
results screen
- volunteer contributed Featured Article Widget for the iOS Today screen
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/1FAIpQLSfW7zFnUDYABvHLWlFclZ7OJEK82WjVIjs…
Thanks,
Josh Minor
PM, Wikipedia app for iOS
Hi all,
please find at [1] the slide deck from the recent quarterly metrics
presentation of the Wikimedia Foundation's Readers team (an appendix
to the main quarterly check-in presentation that also has just been
posted [2]). It gives an overview over core metrics regarding
readership of Wikimedia sites, now also including data about search
provided by the Discovery team.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Readers_metric…
[2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-August/088575.html
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