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=…
[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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Chris Koerner
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