Hi everyone, Here is the monthly update from Readers (previously Reading) department at the Wikimedia Foundation for July 2017.
As always, feedback and questions are welcome.
==Discussions==
=== Apps=== * Development of ZIM file and offline compilations support continues. * Continuing to work on improved Reading lists feature, addressing user reports and preparing for syncing functionality. [0] * We're working on an initial set of downloadable compilations to be available in the Android app. [1] * For iOS we'll be releasing version 5.6 next week, and are just wrapping up testing. * Version 5.6 of iOS features sepia and dark reading modes, On this day timelines and public domain Wikipedia themed stickers for iMessage [2] [3] [4]
=== Web === * We found and reported a quite serious bug in the Firefox browser. [5] * We're working on some style improvements to the print styles of desktop pages and PDFs. [6] * Page previews is coming to all wikis excluding German and English! [7] * We're working on allowing Page previews to display html previews * We're considering |adding a namespace filter to Special:ShortPages. Would this be useful to people? Please let us know! [8]
=== New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta]. [9]
=== Multimedia === * We identified must-do 3D tasks in anticipation of a future launch, and have a few outstanding bugs to resolve before being feature complete. [10] An additional Wikilegal discussion on 3D has been initiated; depending on the outcome some interface changes may be required before launch. [11]
=== Discovery === The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month. * 2017-07-03 [12] * 2017-07-10 [13] * 2017-07-17 [14] * 2017-07-24 [15]
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169905 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T169142 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries [4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_digital_stickers [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1379762 [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162672 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170687 [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/48/query/GMIMsF0oKK9t/?filte... [11] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/3D_files_and_3D_printing [12] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-07-03 [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-07-10 [14] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-07-17 [15] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-07-24
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The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Status_updates
Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation