Hello friends, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for March 2018.
As always, feedback and questions are welcome.
=== Apps=== * iOS and Android apps are finishing up and about to release synced Reading Lists to stores in mid April. [0] * iOS will begin working on user-customizable Explore feed in their next release (similar to what is available on Android now). * Android is working on improved user experience, especially improving support for multi-lingual users.
=== Web === * Published the results of the Page previews a/b test on English and German Wikipedia [1] * Deployed html Page previews to all Wikipedias - now, all html within the article summary will show in Page previews. This fixes a number of outstanding bugs related to mathematical and chemical formulas, bolding, etc. [2] * Made changes main page of Hindi Wikipedia on the mobile website [3] * Updated the modal for page issues to improve readability [4]
=== Reading Infrastructure === * The Reading Lists Service has a dashboard. [5] * The ability to override Wikidata descriptions was added to English Wikipedia. [6] * TemplateStyles were enabled on all Wikivoyages. [7]
=== New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [8]
== Other Noteworthy Stuff == * Josh Minor, product owner of the iOS App, wrote an article about his experiences [9] * Brad Jorsch, Adam Basso, and Gergö Tisza wrote a blog post [10] * From New Readers, Anne Gomez had two posts, one about the Orange Foundation’s work in Africa [11] and one about User:Doc James' efforts to expanding the reach of Wikipedia's medical information. [12]
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Previews/2017-18_A/B_Tests [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182319 [3] https://hi.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%8... [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Mobile_Page_Issues#Updat... [5] https://grafana-admin.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/reading-list-service [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184000 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189834 [8] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [9] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/28/pming-in-public/ [10] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/26/responsive-web-design-templatestyles/ [11] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/20/offline-access-digital-schools/ [12] https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/03/13/offline-access-medical-information/
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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation