Hi Pine,

We usually work with Comms when we have a significant new feature in the apps that we want to promote, and Comms has done a great job so far of notifying all the various tech news outlets to pick up the story (for example[1]).  The app is also fairly easily discoverable within the Play Store itself, although we could probably benefit from some SEO to make the app rank higher for different search terms.

Are there additional venues for spreading the word about the apps that you would suggest?

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/wikipedia-rolls-out-a-redesigned-mobile-app/

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Dmitry. Is WMF Comms going to market product updates like this? One item of feedback on the Strategic Plan was a request for a Wikipedia app, suggesting a lack of public awareness about the existing apps.

Pine

On Jul 8, 2015 7:30 AM, "Dmitry Brant" <dbrant@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi everyone,

We've released a new version of the production Wikipedia Android app [1][2], which is currently rolling out to all Play Store users today. This is mostly a maintenance release, with a few welcome visual enhancements. Here's an abridged list of the updates in this release:

* Enlarged images when browsing articles

* Improved "read more" suggestions at the bottom of articles

* Enabled "Search Wikipedia" when sharing text from other apps

* Added system language support & Chinese dialects to Wikipedia language picker

* Improved appearance and consistency of article lists (History, Saved Pages, etc.)

* Improved text alignment for mixed left-to-right and right-to-left languages

* Improved page caching

* Added link to app FAQ in the "More" menu

* Various miscellaneous fixes and enhancements [3]

Stay tuned for future updates! We have some big things in store for our next release. You won't want to miss it!

Best,

Dmitry Brant

Mobile apps team (Android)

Wikimedia Foundation

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en

[2] https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.0.105-releasesprod-2015-06-30.apk

[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103788

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