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Fwd: CREDIT Showcase Wednesday, 7-September-2016 - call for demos
by Adam Baso 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

Cross-posting to wikitech-ambassadors and mobile-l in case you don't follow the main wikitech-l closely. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 12:05 PM Subject: CREDIT Showcase Wednesday, 7-September-2016 - call for demos To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello! The next CREDIT showcase is Wednesday, 7-September-2016 at 1800 UTC (1100 San Francisco). https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/CREDIT_showcase We look forward to seeing your demos! Please add them to the Etherpad and mark your calendars: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT CREDIT is a good place to show off works in progress and rough cuts. We welcome Wikimedia community members and staff alike :) If you haven't been to CREDIT, here are some videos from the last few months. Enjoy! June 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s81r17M-wk July 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkqPBKPZfOA&feature=youtu.be&t=46 August 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOj6nDbdPMA&feature=yo utu.be&t=55 -Adam

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Wikipedia app for iOS v5.1.1 released, 5.2.0 in beta
by Joshua Minor 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Hello mobile Wikimedians, The Wikipedia iOS app team is excited to announce two releases today. We released version 5.1.1 to the App Store [1]. This is a small update which addresses some instability introduced in our last release, particularly for iPad users. We also released our upcoming 5.2.0 version to beta testers on TestFlight. This version is targeted for release alongside the iOS 10 update, and includes compatibility fixes for iOS 10, as well as 2 new "widgets" for the Today screen: - Continue Reading: pick up right where you left off, right from your phone's lock screen. - Top Read: see the top 3 articles from your primary language, alongside your agenda, news headlines and weather. Make checking what's trending on the wiki part of your daily routine, without even needing to open the app. To enable these widgets you will need to be on the iOS 10 public beta[2]. Once you've updated, go to the bottom of your lock screens "Today" view and tap "Edit". The two Wikipedia widgets should be available for you to add, place or remove in your Today view. If you are not a beta tester, but would like to be, please sign up here[3] and we will add you to our next update. As always we appreciate your feedback and testing, particularly from iOS 10 "early adopters." Thanks, Josh Minor PM, Wikipedia app for iOS [1] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 [2] - https://beta.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/ [3] - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfW7zFnUDYABvHLWlFclZ7OJEK82WjVIjs…

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Moving forward with Related Pages
by Moushira Elamrawy 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Dear All, Happy Monday! Remember Related Pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Related_pages>?[0]. One of the desktop and mobile beta features that has been running for over 5 months, which has been enough time to gather both community feedback (through comments and multiple RFCs) and data. With enough input, the team is proposing a plan to remove the feature from desktop and move forward with the feature on most mobile wikis based on feedback and performance. Please check the proposal of moving to stable here <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Related_pages/Moving_to…> [1] and share your comments on the talk page. The deadline for feedback is Sept 22nd. Happy Week! Moushira [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Related_pages [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Related_pages/Moving_to… -

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Wikimedia Commons Android app update - new feature
by Josephine Lim 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Hi all, I've been working on improving the Wikimedia Commons Android app[1] for the past couple of months. In addition to several bugfixes and minor improvements, we've just rolled out a new feature - a list of nearby places that need photos! This feature pulls locations without photos from a file maintained by the Wiki Needs Pictures[2] project and arranges them in order of proximity to the user's position. Tapping on an item in the list brings the user to their phone's map app with the coordinates pinned. To access this feature, select 'Nearby' (or the icon of a guy with a flag) from the action bar (menu) of the app. The current implementation is a very basic/bare-bones version, as we want to gauge users' response and feedback before working on any enhancements. So please do try it out, see how it works for you, and feel free to report any bugs or suggest any enhancements on our Google Group forums[3] or GitHub issues page[4]. Please note that you will need to allow the app to access your location in order for this feature to work. Also, as the list is rather large, initial loading might take a while. Thanks! [1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons [2]: https://github.com/alemela/wiki-needs-pictures [3]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/commons-app-android [4]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/ -- Regards, Josephine

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by mobile-l＠lists.wikimedia.org 01 Sep '16

01 Sep '16

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Readers as contributors
by Moushira Elamrawy 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello Everyone, I am writing to share with you an effort from the Android team to start identifying themes of products <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions> [0] that would allow readers to create micro-contributions that are welcomed and actually needed by fellow Wikipedia editors. The team has already identified 18 ideas as examples of tasks readers can do to help editors, we would like to expand the conversation to help us evaluate the importance of the idea*s*. While thinking, the team already had criteria for evaluating the ideas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions/Reading_team_t…>, but this is still missing community input on how ideas are evaluated and what would actually get high votes for being something that matters, in order for the team to start working on. Please feel encouraged to add more ideas and adjust criteria for evaluation if needed. This work is a continuation of the reading consultation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Interaction_Consultation> earlier done in April. The team is excited to continue the conversation early with the community in order to define product themes. Ideas promoted from this conversation will be designed in Android first, given the consideration of lower traffic and relative ease of implementation, but the team will be excited and watching for lessons learned in order to move ideas to the web. This work is made possible by Jon Katz, Reading team's senior PM, and Dmitry Brant, the product owner of Android. Thanks for their thoughtful and collaborative approach". We will allow the conversation to run for a month, after which we can already start exploring ideas for implementation in Q3. Please help spread the word across village pumps. Looking forward to your input -- Best, Moushira Community Liaison for Reading team [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_contributions [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Readers_ contributions/Reading_team_thoughts [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_Interaction_Consultation

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Wikipedia app for iOS v5.1.0 released
by Joshua Minor 31 Aug '16

31 Aug '16

Hello, This morning the WMF's iOS app team released version 5.1.0 to the app store [1] This version includes: *- Search within articles!!!* - New designs to make reading and exploring on iPads even better - Faster browsing for users with large histories and saved page libraries - Nearby recommendations that are more relevant to your current location - Ability for 3rd party apps to open specific articles or searches via URL - Lots of other small fixes! Special thanks to volunteer contributors kevintaniguchi and jberkel for their excellent additions! And as always thanks to our beta testers for your bug reports and feedback. [1] - https://itunes.apple.com/th/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 Thanks, Josh Minor PM, Wikipedia for iOS

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ZIM format now allows inclusion of fulltext search index was: [Offline-l] [INFO] ZIM standard library 1.3 is out!
by rupert THURNER 27 Aug '16

27 Aug '16

fyi. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Emmanuel Engelhart <kelson(a)kiwix.org> Date: Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:59 AM Subject: [Offline-l] [INFO] ZIM standard library 1.3 is out! To: Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline < offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, "kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net" < kiwix-developer(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, "kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net" <kiwix-testing(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Mailing list for Wikimedia CH <wikimediach-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi After almost two years since the last release, the new libzim is out: http://www.openzim.org/download/zimlib-1.3.tar.gz This new release brings a few improvements and bugs fixes: * FIXED: zimdump crash with long filenames * FIXED: few portability issues * NEW: method to get real file offset of article in ZIM * NEW: smarter article cluster building (+5% compression) * NEW: one pass writing process (instead of two) These improvements allow easier: * new bindings (like node-libzim) * new features of the ZIM format, like integrating the fulltext search index * creation of more ZIM files (speed-up ZIM creation) This improvements have been done by a few developers mostly during our Kiwix hackathon @Wikimania Esino. This has been made possible with the support of: * Fondation Orange * Wikimedia CH * Wikimedia Foundation * Bibliothèque sans frontière More information about the project openZIM and the ZIM format at: http://www.openzim.org/ Regards Emmanuel Engelhart -- Kiwix - Wikipedia Offline & more * Web: http://www.kiwix.org * Twitter: https://twitter.com/KiwixOffline * more: http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Communication _______________________________________________ Offline-l mailing list Offline-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l

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Mobile site is now lazy loading images
by Jon Robson 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

FYI after much experimentation, research and testing the mobile site has been lazy loading images [1] since Thursday 18th August. This means if you do not see an image you will not download it. We have taken care to ensure users without JavaScript can still view images and that most users will barely notice the difference. We are currently crunching the data this change has made and we plan to write a blog post to reporting the results. In our experiments on Japanese Wikipedia we saw a drop in image bytes per page view by 54% On the Japanese Japan article bytes shipped to users dropped from 1.443 MB to 142 kB. This is pretty huge since bytes equate to money [3] and we expect this to be significant on wikis where mobile data is more expensive. In a nutshell Wikipedia mobile is cheaper. As I said blog post to follow once we have more information, but please report any bugs you are seeing with the implementation (we have already found a few thanks to our community of editors). ~Jon [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Performance/Lazy_loadin… [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Lazy_loading_of_images_on_Japane… [3] https://whatdoesmysitecost.com/

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Wikipedia app for iOS v5.1 beta 3
by Joshua Minor 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

Hello mobile Wikimedians, We've just posted another beta to TestFlight for the next release of the Wikipedia app for iOS. We expect this to be the final beta before we release to 5.1 to the store next week. This release includes: - Search for text within page - Major improvements to reading and browsing experience on iPads - Performance improvements for user with large numbers of Saved and Recent pages - Make most recent Nearby item in the feed a little more "near" - Ability for other apps to open the Wikipedia app to specific articles or even search results (huge thanks to contributor jberkel) - Many other small bug fixes and improvements Thanks, Josh Minor Product Manager

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