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Fwd: Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus 5
by Joaquin Oltra Hernandez 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

Excuse the forward, forgot to add this list... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <jhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:59 PM Subject: Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus 5 To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi, Here's an interesting video that we didn't get to show on the Developer Summit. This is me with my Nexus 5 (Android 6) on 2G in Spain loading en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack Obama <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack%20Obama> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1w0EcuiUjo Write your own conclusions, hopefully this will make us think. If you can set your device from your country to 2G and try it out on an incognito window (cold cache) and share the results, I would be very interested to see if your experience is the same as mine. Cheers, Joaquin

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[Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.1.137-beta-2016-01-11)
by Stephen Niedzielski 11 Jan '16

11 Jan '16

The Android team[0] is pleased to announce a new Wikipedia Android app beta release, v2.1.137-beta-2016-01-11[1]. This revision contains the following new functionality[2]: - Introduced a toolbar under the lead image for quick access to share, save, and navigate to the location of the article. - Moved "similar pages" and "page issues" to the overflow menu. - Reduced memory usage and out-of-memory crashes. - Several saved page status fixes. - Thumbnail icons for similar pages are fixed. - Norwegian app language support is fixed. - HTML tags are now stripped from edit summaries. Included in this version are patches from repeat contributor Dan Garry[3]. Great job! You too can help make it better! Read our getting started guide[4]. We can't wait for your contributions! -The WMF Android team [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team#Android_App [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/2.1.1… [3] https://twitter.com/danjgarry, IRC: Deskana [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] [INFO] wfMsg*() was removed
by Adam Baso 06 Jan '16

06 Jan '16

In case you filter or don't subscribe to wikitech-l... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Florian Schmidt* <florian.schmidt.welzow(a)t-online.de> Date: Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Subject: [Wikitech-l] [INFO] wfMsg*() was removed To: "wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org" <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello readers of this list :) tl;dr MediaWiki's wfMsg*() functions were removed in MediaWiki 1.27. Long version: Maybe someone has already seen the work on the wfMsg*() deprecation task: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70750 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70750> A little bit of background: MediaWiki provides different functions to get a localised message string, the one you normally choose is wfMessage, which creates a Message object. However, there are other global functions (including wfMsg(), wfMsgForContent(), wfMsgHtml() and so on), too, which was deprecated in MediaWiki 1.18 (with deprecating notification in 1.21) in favour of wfMessage. Unfortunately, a lot of (maybe unmaintained) extensions still used the old deprecated functions to get a localised message. After a huge amount of changes to these extensions (tracked in the linked task), we now hope, that all usages of these functions are replaced by it's modern wfMessage-counterpart, at least we did our best to find affected extensions :) Now, the time has come, that the change to mediawiki/core, which removes the old deprecated functions[1], was merged. This notification is mostly for people, who still use these functions, if you're sure you don't, you can stop reading here :P If you're a maintainer of an extension, please make sure, that you don't use these wfMsg*() functions anymore (if your extension is hosted in Wikimedia Gerrit, you probably mentioned a change named "Remove wfMsg* calls", so we already did the work for you. If not, please take some minutes to find out, how you can migrate to the new wfMessage function to keep compatibility with newer MediaWiki releases. If you want to replace your usage of wfMsg* functions your best friend (mostly) is the documentation page[2], which describes appropriate replacements with the actual message functions. However, it's possible, that your case of usage isn't mentioned there, and if so, you could first try to find a better approach using the Message object (returned by wfMessage()), which is documented on doc.wikimedia.org <http://doc.wikimedia.org> [3], or, if you really don't know, what to do, ask in #wikimedia-dev or on this mailing list :) I think you'll get help as soon as possible. I hope this answers all questions, if not, feel free to answer this e-mail :) Best, Florian [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/262333 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/262333> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#Help_ with_replacing_deprecated_wfMsg.2A_functions < https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Messages_API#Help_with_replacing_depr… > [3] https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/ html/classMessage.html# <https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/html/classMessage.html> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org <javascript:;> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [trademark] WikiBuster application
by Charles M. Roslof 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Hi Wiktor, Did Google specify which portion(s) of their regulations your app was violating? If you think the issue might have involved CC BY-SA, then you may want to look at Wikipedia:Reusing Wikipedia Content <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_content>. That policy may help you determine if your app complied with the Creative Commons license restrictions. (And for more information about attribution, you can consult this page on the CC wiki: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Best_practices_for_attribution.) Best, Charles M. Roslof Intellectual Property & Internet Law Fellow Wikimedia Foundation croslof(a)wikimedia.org (415) 839-6885 NOTICE: *This message might contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you have received this message by accident, please delete it and let us know about the mistake. For legal reasons, I may only serve as a legal fellow for the Wikimedia Foundation. This means I may not give legal advice to or serve as a lawyer for community members, volunteers, or staff members in their personal* *capacity.* For more on what this means, please see our legal disclaimer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Legal_Disclaimer>. On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Wiktor Warchałowski < w.warchalowski(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > My name is Wiktor Warchałowski and I am software developer from Poland. In > the previous month, together with my friends from the University of Science > and Technology in Krakow, we wrote the application for Android called > "WikiBuster". > > The idea is quite simple - user has to move from a random article on > Wikipedia (Polish or English - depending on his preference) to another > article using only hyperlinks to pages. The application works like a > browser, except that WIkiBuster app collects the number of clicks between > first and last article. > > The idea that guided us was to promote knowledge and Wikipedia. At the > beginning we have promoted our app among friends, to get feedback, what do > they think about this idea and form of entertainment combined with > education. > > Unfortunately, some time ago Google Play removed our app from the store > due to violations of the Google regulations. I have wrote to > polish Wikipedia information team and sent them our app. They found it very > interesting. > > They suppose that Google removed our app because of license CC BY-SA > 4.0. They told us to write to Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Mobile > engineering department. Can you help us to adapt the application to the > license terms? > > We can send you our application in .app format if needed. > > Yours faithfully, > Wiktor > > > > >

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MobileWikiAppShareAFact event stream was: [Analytics] Stopping eventlogging events into MobileWikiAppShareAFact table
by Nuria Ruiz 05 Jan '16

05 Jan '16

Team: This schema MobileWikiAppShareAFact is sending a lot of events, maybe is worth thinking whether we need that many. It is again a case where tables are becoming huge and hard to query fast. cc-ing Jon as schema owner. Can this data be sampled at a higher sampling rate? I have filed a ticket to this fact: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122224 Thanks, Nuria On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Replacing mobile-tech with mobile-l (internal mobile-tech list > discontinued). > > > On Tuesday, December 22, 2015, Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Team: >> >> As part of our effort of converting eventlogging mysql database to the >> tokudb engine we need to stop eventlogging events from flowing into the MobileWikiAppShareAFact >> table, we are using this one table to see how long the conversion will take >> in order to plan for a larger outage window. >> >> >> Let us know if data should be backfilled as it can be, we anticipate >> events will not flow into table for the better part of one day. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Nuria >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >

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New iOS app: "Curiosity Shows You Useful Wikipedia Articles Right When You Need Them"
by Tilman Bayer 29 Dec '15

29 Dec '15

Launched on December 8. See http://lifehacker.com/curiosity-shows-you-useful-wikipedia-articles-right-w… http://9to5mac.com/community/curiosity-by-tamper-a-beautiful-context-aware-… Features (from https://tamper.io/curiosity/ ): " Nearby [...] Curiosity uses your location to find interesting articles nearby. Popular [...] Curiosity displays the most popular articles for a given day, week, or month all in one place. Explore [...] Receive articles from hand-picked categories that adapt to factors such as time, location, and current events. Learn about Famous Inventors, Movies Filmed Nearby, or many other categories being added and updated regularly. Bookmarks & History [...] Search [...] Read & Share [...] " It's *almost* like they saw https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IOS_Wikipedia_App_5.0_Update.pdf ;) -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB

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Wikipedia iOS app git history rewrite
by Brian Gerstle 28 Dec '15

28 Dec '15

Hey all, Just a quick heads up that we've rewritten the Wikipedia iOS app <https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios> git history to amend some mistakes with author information. If you have a local copy of the repo, please re-checkout the new master. Merging or rebasing are not recommended, as a lot of the commits have new SHA identifiers. If you have an outstanding branch with changes you'd like to apply to the new master, it's probably best to cherry-pick them individually onto the new master. Feel free to ping me via email or on IRC with any questions (#wikimedia-mobile, #wikimedia-ios). Cheers, Brian -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle

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"Free Basics" Facebook in India under review by government
by Pine W 25 Dec '15

25 Dec '15

For those interested in matters related to WP0 and net neutrality: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35169226 Pine

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Stopping eventlogging events into MobileWikiAppShareAFact table
by Nuria Ruiz 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Stream of events to MobileWikiAppShareAFact table has been restored. Outage of events was a bit less than 3 hours , please let us know if this data needs to be backfilled. Thanks, Nuria On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > Team: > > As part of our effort of converting eventlogging mysql database to the > tokudb engine we need to stop eventlogging events from flowing into the MobileWikiAppShareAFact > table, we are using this one table to see how long the conversion will take > in order to plan for a larger outage window. > > > Let us know if data should be backfilled as it can be, we anticipate > events will not flow into table for the better part of one day. > > > Thanks, > > Nuria > > >

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Beta of Wikipedia 5.0.0 for iOS
by Joshua Minor 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Hello, Since last quarter the WMF’s iOS team [1] (part of the Reading product group) has been working on a major version update to our iOS app [2]. Rather than adding new features to the existing app, the team took on the goal of re-thinking our mobile readers, and how we could provide them with a delightful, app-specific, experience that will keep them reading Wikipedia on iOS. After an extended alpha period we’re ready to share that work with you, and we’re looking forward to your feedback! Sign up for the Beta by registering here: https://goo.gl/forms/hNxPJah57p Once we are approved by Apple, you will receive a notification to install the beta via the TestFlight platform. I will also be giving a walkthrough of the app, as a lighting talk tomorrow at 11 PST. It will be one of several to the WMF’s monthly lightning talks for Dec, which will stream here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqhGxtXFbg Thanks, Josh Minor Product Manager, Reading ==More info[3]== What’s New? Our aim was to give our users an easier and more inviting way to discover and read Wikipedia on iOS, and find experiences to keep them engaged. So, there are few new features or changes to the core features, but an all new look-and-feel, and many changes to navigation around that core. 5.0 is a complete overhaul from the ground up, but some major highlights include: - New Explore screen, a mobile-friendly way to enable that Wikipedia moment of serendipity - “First time user experience” that helps users get oriented and configure the app - All new user interface look-and-feel - Tab based navigation for one tap access to your History and Saved pages - Redesigned reader experience, with new page information and table of contents - Easy access to language switching while searching and reading Why is the app so different than the previous one? Although the existing iOS app is well reviewed, and has been featured by Apple, it has never been able to build a sizable audience. Compared to other content sites on the internet, our official apps have not been able to keep our iOS users engaged as they shifted from desktop browsers to mobile apps. In order to “try again” to see if we could engage readers, and also keep them engaged, we’re trying a totally new way of presenting ourselves on iOS. You can read a lot more about this on our project wiki [2] and in this product presentation [4]. What’s this Explore thing? The app’s Explore screen is a new, mobile friendly, way to experience the joy of discovery on Wikipedia. It mixes community curated content (from the en.wikipedia Main Page and Commons) with personally relevant content (based on articles you’ve read and your device location). All this is compiled locally on device and presented in a UI paradigm that is friendly to short, touch based sessions for casual consumption of media. It is an attempt to find a new way to engage, and re-engage, readers on a regular basis, by providing them a wide variety of dynamically changing content, presented in a familiar format. We think it can be very powerful way to enable mobile users to have that magic Wikipedia moment of discovery. Where’s my favorite old feature? Many features that were previously part of the “W” menu are now included in the Explore page. Random articles and articles near your location can both be found by exploring your feed. Other parts of the app now live in the main tab bar (Recent and Saved pages), or in the upper bar (Settings). Not finding something you loved? Fill out our feedback form and let us know [5]. What’s missing? Known issues? - Feed language and site: Currently the Explore page takes its content from your current “site”, based on your current search language. We will need to add more nuance to our site and language controls. If you are a multilingual user of the app, we’re particularly interested to get your feedback. - The app can be overly aggressive about updating/refreshing content. We erred on the side of getting the “latest” content. - Some localizations and RTL language support are incomplete (especially on iOS 8). We are actively working on this. - Navigation issues: although the tab based main interface has been well liked by users, the new navigation flows have introduced some inconveniences for longer sessions and quickly accessing some less frequently used but much loved features. We look forward to hearing from you about what you like, and don’t, about the new navigation. How can I give feedback? We have a feedback form you can fill out (anonymously) here [5] or on the project’s wiki talk page here [2]. The team will also be at the wiki dev summit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>, if you want to talk IRL! [1] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS [2] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Why_5 [3] - Also available on wiki at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FAQ_about_5.0 [4] - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IOS_Wikipedia_App_5.0_Update.pdf [5] - https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/forms/d/1NDBPJvWZ0idh9OuQ8pt684c9Mw…

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