Cross-posting!
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From: Lani Goto <lgoto(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:07 AM
Subject: CREDIT showcase, Wednesday 7-June-2017
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi!
I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week,
Wednesday, 7-June-2017 at 1800 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see
your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production
material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying
recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings
of previous events, please visit the following page:
<http://goog_1968694156/>
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase,
here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks!
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcaseopen source tech projects
from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery, Infrastructure and
Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on June 7th at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. *
*There’s more info on MediaWiki, and on Etherpad, which is where we take
notes and ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode
chatroom #wikimedia-office (web-based access here). Links to video will
become available at these locations shortly before the event.*
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see
you at CREDIT.*
*YOURNAME*
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Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
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Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
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
Cross-posting.
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From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:00 PM
Subject: CREDIT videos from April and May 2017 posted
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all - in case you missed them, the demos from CREDIT last month and
today are up.
April 2017
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-04-05
Neslihan Turan, Wiki_Radio (for Android)
Jan Drewniak, Wiktionary definition widget for search results
May 2017
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase/2017-05-03
Željko Filipin, Selenium tests in Node.js
Enjoy!
-Adam
Hello mobile Wikimedians,
The WMF's iOS team is excited to announce version 5.4.1 of Wikipedia for
iOS is now available on the App Store
<https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8>!
This version contains no new features but makes significant changes
internally to reduce the resources used by the app. Updating users should
see the app use less disk space, background battery and bandwidth,
particularly users with large histories or large saved page libraries.
Thanks to all the testers who helped us with one last push! Also thanks to
volunteer Julbod for his code contributions.
Cheers,
Josh
PM, Wikipedia for iOS
Crossposting!
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From: Lani Goto <lgoto(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:19 AM
Subject: CREDIT showcase, Wednesday, 3-May-2017
To: wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi!
I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week,
Wednesday, 3-May-2017 at 1800 UTC / 1100 Pacific Time. We'd like to see
your demos, whether they're rough works in progress or polished production
material, or even just a telling of something you've been studying
recently. For more information on the upcoming event, as well as recordings
of previous events, please visit the following page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase
And if you'd like to share the news about the upcoming CREDIT showcase,
here's some suggested verbiage. Thanks!
*Hi <FNAME>*
*I hope all is well with you! I wanted to let you know about CREDIT, a
monthly demo series that we’re running to showcase open source tech
projects from Wikimedia’s Community, Reading, Editing, Discovery,
Infrastructure and Technology teams. *
*CREDIT is open to the public, and we welcome questions and discussion. The
next CREDIT will be held on May 3rd at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 18:00 UTC. *
*There’s more info on MediaWiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase>, and on Etherpad
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT>, which is where we take notes and
ask questions. You can also ask questions on IRC in the Freenode chatroom
#wikimedia-office (web-based access here
<https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23wikimedia-office>). Links to
video will become available at these locations shortly before the event.*
*Please feel free to pass this information along to any interested folks.
Our projects tend to focus on areas that might be of interest to folks
working across the open source tech community: language detection,
numerical sort, large data visualizations, maps, and all sorts of other
things.*
*If you have any questions, please let me know! Thanks, and I hope to see
you at CREDIT.*
*YOURNAME*
--
Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
--
Lani Goto
Project Assistant, Engineering Admin
Hello,
The iOS team has recently pushed a release candidate beta of the Wikipedia
app to our TestFlight users.
This version contains no new features, but makes major improvements under
the hood. These changes should result in the app using less resources (disk
space and background battery, especially) and also be faster and more
stable. Although we've pushed a couple betas of this version, we still need
more help testing these important changes.
*If you are a Wikipedia iOS beta tester, please install the 5.4.1 version
from TestFlight! We need YOUR help.*
If you are not a beta tester, but would like to be one, please sign up here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW7zFnUDYABvHLWlFclZ7OJEK82WjVIjs…
Thanks,
Josh
Product Manager, Wikipedia for iOS
I should add to the list of new features:
- We're now continuing our rollout of editing Wikidata descriptions by
expanding the languages for which descriptions can be added/edited. For
more details, please see the announcement
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2017/04#Wikidat…>
on Wikidata.
Cheers!
On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We're pleased to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android
> app, available now on the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights
> from this update (or browse the complete change history
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;beta/2.5.1…>
> ):
>
> - Numerous improvements to the UI for managing your reading lists.
> - Individual reading list articles can now be toggled on/offline.
> - Improved caching of images for offline availability.
> - Random feed card now pulls a random article from the user's reading
> lists when offline.
> - Many other bug fixes and design updates.
>
> Many thanks to our volunteers who contributed patches to this release,
> including Amir Aharoni (IRC: aharoni, Wikipedia User:Amire80), Codrut Grosu
> (Github: superCodrut, Twitter: @GrosuCodrut), and Dinu Kumarasiri (IRC:
> sandaru, Github: sandarumk).
>
> If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting
> started
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/App_hacking>
> guide. We're looking forward to your contributions!
>
>
> [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
>
>
--
Dmitry Brant
Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
FYI
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From: Luca Toscano <ltoscano(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 11:30 AM
Subject: [Analytics] Ongoing Network maintenance will affect all analytics
websites
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>
Tracking task: T148506
Should last approximately 10/15 mins from now and it will affect all the
Analytics websites (Yarn, Hue, Pivot, etc..).
Please reach out to me (elukey) on IRC if you have further questions.
Luca
_______________________________________________
Analytics mailing list
Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
Hello!
We're pleased to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app,
available now on the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights from
this update (or browse the complete change history
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;beta/2.5.1…>
):
- Numerous improvements to the UI for managing your reading lists.
- Individual reading list articles can now be toggled on/offline.
- Improved caching of images for offline availability.
- Random feed card now pulls a random article from the user's reading lists
when offline.
- Many other bug fixes and design updates.
Many thanks to our volunteers who contributed patches to this release,
including Amir Aharoni (IRC: aharoni, Wikipedia User:Amire80), Codrut Grosu
(Github: superCodrut, Twitter: @GrosuCodrut), and Dinu Kumarasiri (IRC:
sandaru, Github: sandarumk).
If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting
started
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/App_hacking>
guide. We're looking forward to your contributions!
[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