Hello all,

This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for July 2018.

Feedback and questions are encouraged.

==Discussions==

=== Apps=== * Wikipedia for iOS released a first beta of the next major version, 6.0.0. This update includes a fully user controlled Explore feed, similar to the recent changes on Android. It also includes major design and navigation improvements.

=== Web === * Page Previews now aborts in-flight requests if the user has shifted their focus, resulting in less data being sent to the user. [0] Indeed, Page Previews is now sending ~25% of the requests that it used to at peak. [1] *We are continuing work on advanced mobile contributions. [2] We conducted more than 20 interviews with editors at Wikimania and collected information on the most requested pages and workflows for editing and contributing on mobile.

=== Reading Infrastructure === * Doing definition work for T199096ː Add support for wikidata summaries in the /page/summary/ endpoint consulting with Wikidata and Readers web team [3] * Page Content Service: Improving mobile-html (fka. content-html) endpoint output. [4] Added several transformations from the #wikimedia-page-library. [5] * T198622ː Migrating maps servers to stretch with the current style and subtasks (Mapnik library upgrades for the stretch migration) [6]

=== New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [7]

=== Multimedia === * Video downloads will start being produced in VP9 format soon. [8]

[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197700 [1] https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/reading-web-page-previews?orgId=1... [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T199096 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Content_Service#Mobile_HTML [5] https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-page-library [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198622 [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [8] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VP9_transition

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Yours, Chris Koerner Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation