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Fwd: CREDIT showcase Wednesday 1-March-2017
by Adam Baso 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Cross-post in case you don't follow wikitech-l closely. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:05 AM Subject: CREDIT showcase Wednesday 1-March-2017 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi! I'd like to welcome you to join us at the CREDIT showcase next week, Wednesday, 1-March-2017 at 1900 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! -Adam *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 March 1st at 11am PT / 2pm ET / 19:00 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*

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[KIWIX] for Android 2.2 released
by Emmanuel Engelhart 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Hi We just have released a new version of Kiwix for Android. Here the list of improvements: * FIX: Text To Speech issues on earlier Android versions * FIX: SD card detection in a few edge cases * FIX: Sporadic transparent menu * FIX: Download resilience and experience * FIX: Few problems with icon positions * FIX: "Night mode" for pictures * NEW: UI "night mode" * NEW: UI colors * NEW: Autohide app toolbar * NEW: Keep bookmarks over data updates The app is available on Google play at http://android.kiwix.org and the APK can also be download at http://download.kiwix.org/bin/kiwix.apk Emmanuel -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication

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Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia community in Iraq partners with Asiacell to bring Wikipedia to nearly 12 million subscribers free of mobile data charges
by Pine W 28 Feb '17

28 Feb '17

Forwarding. Pine ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samantha Lien <slien(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:28 AM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia community in Iraq partners with Asiacell to bring Wikipedia to nearly 12 million subscribers free of mobile data charges To: press-release(a)lists.wikimedia.org This press release is also available online here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/ Wikimedia_community_in_Iraq_partners_with_Asiacell_to_ bring_Wikipedia_to_nearly_12_million_subscribers_free_of_mobile_data_charges *Wikimedia community in Iraq partners with Asiacell to bring Wikipedia to nearly 12 million subscribers free of mobile data charges* *Mobile data fees waived for Asiacell customers in Iraq to access Wikipedia, a free collection of knowledge available in nearly 300 languages* (Barcelona, Spain) February 28th, 2017 -- Today, Wikimedia community members in Iraq, the Wikimedia Foundation, and Asiacell, one of Iraq’s largest mobile operators, announced a new partnership to provide access to Wikipedia free of mobile data charges to Asiacell’s nearly 12 million subscribers in Iraq. The partnership was announced today at a press event hosted by Ooredoo during Mobile World Congress 2017. The partnership, developed in large part by Iraqi volunteer editor and Asiacell employee, Sarmad Saeed Yaseen, marks the first Wikipedia Zero program in Iraq. The program, overseen by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, addresses one of the greatest barriers to internet access globally: affordability. In a recent phone survey in Iraq led by the Wikimedia Foundation, roughly 80% of surveyed participants reported that mobile data costs limited their use of the internet. About 33% of participants also reported rarely or never being able to find online content in their preferred language. Through the Wikipedia Zero <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero> program, mobile data fees are waived for subscribers of participating mobile operators so that they may read and edit Wikipedia without using any of their mobile data. Sarmad, who is part of a community of local volunteer Wikipedia editors in Iraq, started the partnership to extend access to knowledge in his home country of Iraq. Together, he and his wife, Ravan Jaafar Altaie, have been active editors (or Wikipedians) since 2008. “I've always believed that it is better to light a candle than curse the darkness, so I decided to volunteer in Wikipedia to provide knowledge for free to my people in their own language,” said Sarmad Saeed Yaseen. “When I was first introduced to Wikipedia Zero, I felt right away that this could be the best thing ever to share free knowledge in my country and encourage the people of Iraq to contribute knowledge and share this with the world on Wikipedia.” Wikipedia is an online collection of knowledge written by volunteer editors from every corner of the globe. Available in nearly 300 languages, Wikipedia is a place to learn about virtually any topic -- from ancient history to science to the arts -- in your local language, for free, and without advertising. Wikipedia editors use reliable sources to support information that is included in Wikipedia articles, so readers can explore the sources that verify the facts. Wikipedia is completely non-profit, independent, and maintained by everyday people around the world. Wikipedia in Iraq is supported by a local community of volunteer editors in almost every major city of the country. In 2015, Sarmad and Ravan organized the first series of workshops in Erbil to teach Iraqi people how to edit Wikipedia. The workshops led to 600 new articles and more than 12,000 edits primarily to Arabic and Kurdish Wikipedia. In October 2015, this community launched the first formalized Wikimedia group from Iraq, the Iraqi Wikimedians user group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Wikimedians> (a formalized Wikimedia affiliate group that has been recognized by the global Wikimedia community of editors). Today, the majority of unique device visits to Wikipedia in Iraq come from mobile devices. Worldwide, Wikipedia is recognized as an important learning resource, but it also offers a platform to share knowledge with the world. Edits from any country contribute to the world’s common knowledge repository, seen by hundreds of millions of people every month. This allows many to learn from what just a few people might otherwise know. As more voices contribute to Wikipedia, it becomes a better representation of the diverse cultures, history, people, viewpoints, and perspectives of our world. “Asiacell believes that sharing knowledge is a way to enforce the interaction among human beings. We strongly believe in contributing in the global project of Wikipedia. Beside all the modern technologies that we offer, this partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation is one of the achievements that we are proud of. We will enable our 12 million subscriber base to have free access to Wikipedia, this will enable them to widen the scale of their knowledge and thus direct them towards a brighter future for themselves and for humanity,” said Zring Faruk, Chief Commercial Officer at Asiacell. With this partnership, Asiacell customers will be able to edit Wikipedia without mobile data charges -- adding to and improving articles in their preferred language and sharing knowledge of Iraq’s rich cultural history, heritage, and its people with the rest of the world. “Wikipedia is guided by a powerful vision: that every single person should be able to share in all of the world’s knowledge, for free and without restriction,” said Katherine Maher, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. “Sarmad, Ravan, and the Iraqi Wikimedians User Group have been passionate advocates of this vision in Iraq. They've nurtured the growth of Arabic and Kurdish Wikipedia for nearly a decade, and have built a vibrant community committed to sharing knowledge of Iraq and its heritage, people, and culture with the world. We are thrilled to have Asiacell join us as a partner in this journey.” The Wikipedia Zero program is overseen by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that supports Wikipedia and a number of other Wikimedia free knowledge websites. Since the program first began in 2012, Wikipedia Zero partnerships have taken place with 68 mobile operators in 52 countries. *# # #* *About Asiacell* Asiacell is a leading provider of quality mobile telecommunications and data services in Iraq with a subscriber base of nearly 12 million customers as of December 1st 2016. Asiacell was the first mobile telecommunications provider in Iraq to achieve nationwide coverage, offering its services across all of Iraq’s 19 governorates including the national capital Baghdad and all other major Iraqi cities. Asiacell’s network covers 99.06% of the Iraqi population which makes its national coverage the widest among the mobile operators in Iraq. *About Wikipedia* Wikipedia is the world’s free knowledge resource. It is a collaborative creation that has been added to and edited by millions of people from around the globe since it was created in 2001: anyone can edit it, at any time. Wikipedia is offered in hundreds of languages containing more than 40 million articles. Wikipedia and its sister projects are collectively visited by more than a billion unique devices each month. *About the Wikimedia Foundation* The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and its sister projects. More than a billion unique devices access the Wikimedia sites each month. Roughly 70,000 people edit Wikipedia and its sister projects every month, collectively creating and improving its more than 40 million articles across hundreds of languages – this all makes Wikipedia one of the most popular web properties in the world. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Press contact* *Asiacell* public.relations(a)asiacell.com *Wikimedia Foundation* Juliet Barbara press(a)wikimedia.org -- *Samantha Lien* Communications Manager Wikimedia Foundation 149 New Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA 94105 (To be unsubscribed from this press release distribution list, please reply to communications(a)wikimedia.org with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' in the subject line) _______________________________________________ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Wikimedia-l, the public mailing list of the Wikimedia community. For more information about Wikimedia-l: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l _______________________________________________ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list WikimediaAnnounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-l

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Readership metrics for the timespan until February 5, 2017
by Zareen Farooqui 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Link to PDF of report in Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Readership_metrics_for_th…> Hi all, Here is the usual look <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readership_metrics_reports> at our most important readership metrics. This time we see an overall rise in pageviews following the seasonal winter slump, examine the recent year-over-year growth in pageviews more closely, and introduce a new day-7 retention metric for the Wikipedia iOS app. As laid out earlier <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-September/009773.html>, the main purpose is to raise awareness about how these are developing, call out the impact of any unusual events, and facilitate thinking about core metrics in general. As always; feedback and discussion welcome. Week-over-week and month-over-month changes are being recorded on the Product page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Product#Reading> at MediaWiki.org. This edition of the report covers a timespan of five weeks. You can also find lots of other traffic and usage data in the quarterly metrics presentation <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Reading_metric…> for Q2 2016-2017 (October - December) that was just published by the WMF Reading team. All numbers below are averages for January 2 - February 5, 2017 unless otherwise noted. Pageviews Total: 582 million/day (+10.14% from the previous report) Context (April 2015-February 2017): See also the Vital Signs dashboard <https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/vital-signs/#projects=all/metric…> After the seasonal winter slump, we see a rise in desktop pageviews, as expected. Mobile pageviews continue to remain at higher levels than before christmas. The previously mentioned iOS app’s pageview increase is still under investigation, and may turn out to be an anomaly <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154735> inflating mobile pageviews by roughly 5 million views per day. This chart looks at long-term traffic trends from May 2013 - January 2017. This shows that over this timespan, the annual change in overall pageviews was -2%, desktop has been down 15%, and mobile (web + apps) has been trending upwards at a rate of 23% per year. However, the past few months have seen total pageviews increasing year-over-year (chart further below). To facilitate our understanding of which traffic movements are seasonal and which may indicate lasting changes, here is a chart overlaying the total pageview numbers back to May 2013 (the earliest time for which we have data according to the current pageview definition): Total pageviews have continued rising and are now higher than before the winter holidays. The blue line shows that the increase in overall pageviews year-over-year remains (January 2017 is up 5% from January 2016). It is possible that a smaller part of this is due to unidentified bot traffic (e.g. we just updated <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157528> the pageview definition to exclude a recently discovered bot that had been causing up to 0.9% of total pageviews). But overall it is starting to look like a small but sustained rise in real human pageviews. Here we see that the changed trend in recent months can be attributed to desktop pageviews, which have mostly stopped declining year-over-year. This chart also shows that the seasonal christmas dip in pageviews comes predominantly from desktop views. Most recently, January 2017 desktop pageviews are again down 1.8% from January 2016, but that is still much less than the aforementioned -15% yearly trend since 2013. Year-over-year mobile pageviews are still increasing at a notable rate, but slower than in 2013-15. January 2017 mobile pageviews are up 13% from January 2016, less than the yearly mobile growth of 23% in the overall 2013-17 timespan. We can see how mobile pageviews always increase around the winter holidays and maintain higher levels afterwards. Desktop: 50.9% (previous report: 51.5%) Mobile web: 46.7% (previous report: 46.8%) Apps: 2.4% (previous report: 1.7%) Mobile percentage dropped a bit following the christmas spike, but remains high at an average of 49% mobile views. The previously mentioned iOS app’s pageview increase is still under investigation, and may turn out to be an anomaly <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154735> inflating this metric by about 1%. Global North ratio: 77.3% of total pageviews (previous report: 76.8%) Context (January 2016-February 2017): Although Global North pageview percentage fell following the winter spike, but overall this metric grew since the last report. Levels remain in the high 70 percentile range. NB: We are currently rethinking this metric and might replace it with a different country selection constructed as part of the work on the New Readers project Unique devices See the announcement blog post <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/30/unique-devices-dataset/> from March 2016 for background and details on this metric. These estimated numbers are provided for all Wikimedia language projects (separately for the desktop and mobile web version). Because of the instrumentation method, there is no global metric for all projects and all languages, but it is currently being extended <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138027> to a cross-language global metric per project at least. For now, we track the daily numbers of English Wikipedia in this report. Daily unique devices estimate for English Wikipedia: - Mobile web: 36.3 million - Desktop: 24.3 million - Total: 60.6 million - Average mobile web ratio: 60.0% Context (January 2016- February 2017): Since the last report, both daily unique desktop devices and mobile devices grew. Mobile web daily uniques mirrors the daily pageviews chart - mobile web unique levels have remained higher than before the winter bump. January 2017 was the first month we could compare year-over-year changes in unique devices. While pageviews on English Wikipedia are up from January 2016, the number of monthly unique devices is down 16%. For this report timespan (Jan 2 - Feb 5), daily mobile web uniques are up 2.6%, while daily desktop uniques are down 8.2%. This is currently being investigated. While the number of daily unique desktop devices has grown overall, the ratio of pageviews to devices on desktop has steadily declined back to pre christmas levels. The small, but notable increase in daily views per device for mobile web which happened in November has held up. New app installations Android: 18.0k/day (-5.9% from the previous report) Daily installs per device, from Google Play Context (last nine months): The number of daily installs dropped after the christmas spike, but remains higher than the number of uninstalls (except for January 26). Overall, the number of daily installs has dropped nearly 6% and daily uninstalls dropped about 8% since the last report. iOS: 5.67k/day (+6.5% from the previous report) Download numbers from App Annie Context (last two months): [image: Wikipedia iOS app daily downloads by country, Dec 6, 2016 - Feb 5, 2017 (App Annie).png] Similar to other mobile metrics measured in this report, the iOS app download metric has remained higher than usual following the winter bump. During the timespan of this report, iOS app downloads remain fairly steady besides two large, unusual spikes at the end of January in the United Arab Emirates and the United States (which follow the spike from the Netherlands in December) which are likely anomalies. We are looking into filing a bug report with App Annie to investigate this. App user retention Android: 15.6% (previous report: 16.8%) (Ratio of app installs opened again 7 days after installation for all dates that fall within this report. 1:100 sample) Context (last six months): As remarked in earlier reports, this data is a bit too noisy for drawing conclusions about whether retention changed significantly between different releases. However, we can at least rule out the existence of major shifts during this timespan. There was a small spike in day 7 retention for installs on January 22nd. iOS: 19.2% (previous report: N/A <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126693> ) (Ratio of app installs opened again 7 days after installation for all dates that fall within this report. 100:100 sample since iOS app only sends data when users opt-in so there is a small user base) Context (last two months): After a long break where we refrained from reporting iOS retention here due to data quality issues with the number provided by Apple, we are happy to report iOS app 7 day retention again, based on a new EventLogging instrumentation that parallels the one on Android. There doesn’t seem to have been any significant changes in retention levels during the timespan of this report, even after new releases of the app. Looking back at December though, it appears that there was a period of lower retention which roughly corresponds with stability issues (crashes) the app was having at this time, and which have since been fixed. Unique app users Android: 1.211 million / day (+2.7% from the previous report) Context (last eight months): Android daily average levels have remained higher following the christmas and new year’s bump. This matches the mobile pageviews and unique mobile devices metrics. iOS: N/A <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130432> Zareen Farooqui, Data Analyst Intern, Wikimedia Foundation Tilman Bayer, Senior Analyst, Wikimedia Foundation Data sources For reference, the queries and source links used are listed below (access is needed for each). Unless otherwise noted, all content of this report is © Wikimedia Foundation and released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/> license. Most of the above charts are available on Commons, too. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_readership_metrics_re…> SELECT year, month, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0")) as yearmonth, SUM(view_count) AS allhuman, sum(IF(access_method = 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS desktophuman FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year = 2017 AND agent_type = 'user' GROUP BY year, month ORDER BY year, month LIMIT 1000; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, sum(IF(access_method <> 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS mobileviews, SUM(view_count) AS allviews FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year = 2017 AND agent_type = 'user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT access_method, SUM(view_count)/(7*5) FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE agent_type = 'user' AND CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) BETWEEN "2017-01-02" AND "2017-02-05" GROUP BY access_method; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")), SUM(view_count) AS all, SUM(IF (FIND_IN_SET(country_code, 'AD,AL,AT,AX,BA,BE,BG,CH,CY,CZ,DE,DK,EE,ES,FI,FO,FR,FX,GB,GG,GI,GL,GR,HR,HU,IE,IL,IM,I S,IT,JE,LI,LU,LV,MC,MD,ME,MK,MT,NL,NO,PL,PT,RO,RS,RU,SE,SI,SJ,SK,SM,TR,VA,AU,CA,HK,MO, NZ,JP,SG,KR,TW,US') > 0, view_count, 0)) AS Global_North_views FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year = 2017 AND agent_type='user' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, SUM(IF(uri_host LIKE 'en.m.wikipedia%', uniques_estimate, 0)) AS enwiki_mobile_web FROM wmf.last_access_uniques_daily WHERE year=2017 GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, SUM(IF(uri_host LIKE 'en.wikipedia%', uniques_estimate, 0)) AS enwiki_desktop FROM wmf.last_access_uniques_daily WHERE year=2017 GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) AS date, SUM(IF(access_method = 'mobile web', view_count, null)) AS mobilewebviews, SUM(IF(access_method = 'desktop', view_count, null)) AS desktopviews FROM wmf.projectview_hourly WHERE year=2017 AND agent_type = 'user' AND project = 'en.wikipedia' GROUP BY year, month, day ORDER BY year, month, day LIMIT 1000; https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/pubsite_prod_rev_028125227… https://www.appannie.com/dashboard/252257/item/324715238/downloads/ SELECT LEFT(timestamp, 8) AS date, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 0, 1, 0)) AS day0_active, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 7, 1, 0)) AS day7_active FROM log.MobileWikiAppDailyStats_12637385 WHERE timestamp LIKE '2017%' AND userAgent LIKE '%-r-%' AND userAgent NOT LIKE '%Googlebot%' GROUP BY date ORDER BY DATE; SELECT LEFT(timestamp, 8) AS date, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 0, 1, 0)) AS day0_active, SUM(IF(event_appInstallAgeDays = 7, 1, 0)) AS day7_active FROM log.MobileWikiAppDailyStats_12637385 WHERE userAgent LIKE '%iPhone%' OR userAgent LIKE '%iOS%' GROUP BY date ORDER BY DATE; SELECT CONCAT(year,"-",LPAD(month,2,"0"),"-",LPAD(day,2,"0")) as date, unique_count AS Android_DAU FROM wmf.mobile_apps_uniques_daily WHERE year = 2017 AND platform = 'Android'; Zareen Farooqui

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Weigh in on whether to finalize "Amendments" section of Code of Conduct
by Matthew Flaschen 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Please comment on whether to approve the "Amendments" section of the draft Code of conduct for technical spaces. The draft text is at https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/Draft&oldid=238… . You can comment at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_.22Amend… . A position and brief comment is fine. You can also send private feedback to conduct-discussion(a)wikimedia.org . Thanks again, Matt Flaschen * The "Creation and renewal of the Committee" section has been approved. Thanks to everyone who helped discuss, edit, and approve this section.

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New “On this day” service and location data in summaries
by Corey Floyd 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

A couple updates for the Mobile Content Service and RESTBase: A new MCS service was deployed yesterday that returns events, holidays, birth and deaths. This service is powered using Wikipedia contributed by our volunteers. It currently works for EN, DE, FR, SV (with rollout to more languages being planned). For example, to see today’s births: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/onthisday/births/02/14 (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_14) Even better, it returns the curated list selected anniversaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/onthisday/selected/02/14 (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries/February_14) For more information, check out the docs: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Feed/aggregatedFeed_0 Thanks to Monte and Bernd for working on this and creating a very useful endpoint! Another minor, but useful improvement made earlier this month was the inclusion latitude and longitude in RESTBase summaries by Petr: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/atlanta Special thanks to Petr, Marko and the rest of the Services team for all their help and consultation. They continue to be great partners for the Reading team and their contributions have been key to so much of our work over the past year. -- Corey Floyd Apps Engineering Manager Wikimedia Foundation cfloyd(a)wikimedia.org

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[Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.5.187-beta-2017-02-08)
by Stephen Niedzielski 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

The Android team[0] is pleased to announce a new Wikipedia Android app beta release, v2.5.187-beta-2017-02-08[1]. This revision contains the following new functionality and fixes[2]: - Contribute to Wikipedia by editing title descriptions for articles that you browse! (Powered by Wikidata, and currently enabled for Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan Wikipedia)[3] - Two-factor authentication support and login fixes - Improved network performance and offline support for cached page previews - Better multi-window support - Minor UI refinements to gallery and page previews - Several major crash fixes Included in this version are volunteer patches from The Discoverer[4] and Dinu Kumarasiri[5], and repeat contributors Odysseas Kristalakos[6] and Kunal Grover[7]. Woohoo! You too can help make it better! Read our getting started guide[8]. We can't wait for your contributions! -The WMF Android team [0] https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team#Android [1] Rolling out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta [2] A complete list of changes is available at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;beta/2.5.1… [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Editing_descrip… [4] The Discoverer, [[mw:User:The Discoverer]] [5] Dinu Kumarasiri, IRC: sandaru, https://github.com/sandarumk [6] Odysseas Kristalakos, https://github.com/OdysseasKr [7[ Kunal Grover, https://github.com/kunalgrover05 [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…

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Please review "Amendments" section of the Code of Conduct
by Matthew Flaschen 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

Please take this as a final opportunity to do review/suggest changes/etc. to the Amendments section of the draft Code of Conduct. This text has been up for a while, but I recently put in a small proposed change to make it harder for the Committee to veto amendments. This is the last section. After it's approved, the Code of Conduct will become policy, and the Amendments section will specify how future changes to the policy work. * Current text: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Code_of_Conduct/Draft&oldid=238… (under "Page: Code of Conduct/Amendments") * Discussion: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#New_proposal_for_… The approval discussion hasn't started yet. It will be next and I will send out a separate email. Thanks, Matt Flaschen P.S. You can still participate in deciding whether to approve "Creation and renewal of the Committee" at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#Finalize_.22Creat… .

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CREDIT video posted, another reminder about the CREDIT survey
by Adam Baso 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi there, the CREDIT showcase video from yesterday is available on YouTube and Commons. Also, another call for your responses on our short CREDIT survey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxjSQ0TGXsw https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CREDIT_-_January_2017.webm Topics: responsive CSS on desktop, randomizing your locale during Wikipedia for Android development, on-wiki translatable training modules, and offline ZIM file integration for the Wikipedia for Android app After you've finished watching, I encourage you to take our CREDIT survey. We'd appreciate your feedback. Here is a link to the survey (which is hosted on a third-party service), and, for information about privacy and data handling, the survey privacy statement. https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/e/ 1FAIpQLSedAtyPfcEhT6OVd26Y-3v_jm3yM3ShvMqgAWBUPxb24u_Y9g/viewform https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/CREDIT_Feedback_ Survey_Privacy_Statement. This email is being sent to several mailing lists in order to reach multiple audiences. As always, please follow the list link at the very bottom of this email in case you want to manage your list subscription options such as digest, unsubscribe, and so on. Thanks to everyone for their demos and support of CREDIT! -Adam

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Fwd: So many search options! :)
by Deborah Tankersley 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hello, *Apologies in advance for the cross-post!* The Discovery Search Team would like to open the conversation about some future improvements to search that we’re considering. We’ve been thinking about how to display additional results that might be interesting and helpful to our users, and we’d like to get feedback on these plans. Currently, we’re busy with our quarterly goals <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals> of upgrading to ElasticSearch 5 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501>, setting up A/B tests for sister project search results <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145917>, and researching new language analyzers. [1] [2] [3] This means that the new work discussed here won’t be started for a few months, leaving lots of time to give input. :-) Over the last year, we’ve worked hard to reduce the zero results rate (which measures how many queries get zero results returned) so that even really obscure queries can get useful results. To that end, we have made a number of enhancements to the search system: stripping question marks <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133711> (replacing with spaces) and language detection <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149316> (cross language searching). [4] [5] What we’d like to do now is to provide additional results: helpful suggestions and links to articles - or additional search results pages - to aid in finding information that users are looking for. These additional results will most likely be placed near the bottom of the page, at the end of the list of original results returned. We’ll also make these additional results available to the search API. In gathering these additional results, we will use several techniques that have been researched but not yet put into production; some of these methods include <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/So_Many_Search_Options> wrong keyboard layout, quote stripping, and sister wiki searching (cross-project). [6] We would love to have your comments and/or suggestions posted on the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Discovery/So_Many_Search_Opti…> of the ‘So Many Search Options <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/So_Many_Search_Options>’ page or on the Phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156019>. [7] [8] [9] Cheers, The Discovery Search Team [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2016-17_Q3_Goals [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154501 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145917 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133711 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T149316 [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/So_ Many_Search_Options [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Discovery/ So_Many_Search_Options [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Discovery/So_ Many_Search_Options [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T156019 -- deb tankersley irc: debt Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation

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