To say that we've been happy about the roll outhttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/26/announcing-the-official-wikipedia-android-app/of our new Wikipedia Android app https://market.android.com/details?id=org.wikipedia would be an understatement.
In just over two weeks time we've:
* Had *827,236* total installs of our app * Become the *#1 search result* for 'Wikipedia' in the market * Held the* #1 trending spo*t in the whole Google Android market for our first week * Held both the* #4 & #5 spot in top free Books and Reference* * Made it onto the *top 100 free apps* in the Android market * Maintained a *4.5/5 star* review * Held a consistent *87% install retention rate*
And that doesn't even include our non EN numbers.
For a new app these are some truly impressive numbers and Yuvi, Brion, and the rest of the mobile team deserve all sorts of great credit for pulling this off. They've made our reviewers truly happy
Here are some of my favorite comments:
"Great Ad-free, therefore awesome." "Très bien Fait le job et fonctionne sans problème sur Galaxy Nexus." "Por fin la oficial Esta muy bien y sin ningun fallo (samsung galaxy ace)" "Plaisir libriste Nous l'attendions tous bien que ce ne soit pas sur une plate-forme Libre comme il se doit ! Topissime et plus pratique que de faire une recherche Web avec le SearchAgent le temps que firefox se lance... Merci !" "Super. Dzięki tej aplikacji mogę łatwo zmieniać język artykułu, czego brakowało mi w ich stronie minionej." "Brilliant! As someone who uses wikipedia in multiple languages, the ease of the Read in... feature is fantastic. Thank you,wikipedia! "Works great Looks great and works smoothly!"
But we certainly had our fair share of criticisms for a nasty launch bug that held on to the GSM radio even after you left the app and certain missing Android niceties like the Quick Search Box and URL intents. We fixed the first quickly and have iterated on the others to where an alpha release for them will show up shortly.
We had also long wondered if people were going to use our near by functionality. Thankfully with new stats from geonames we can easily see that were getting over 20,000 req/day (http://bit.ly/wUVHAI) for just our map functions. Soon we'll have even more stats about how many users are accessing our sites through the Android app.
There is still a lot to dohttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/roadmapbut i'm pretty happy with our first dedicated push into the Android eco-system. Next stop, fixing up our iOS app to do the same.
--tomasz
That's freakin' awesome! Way to go to everyone that helped out on this and for all the great feedback from the community. It looks the million download mark is right around the corner...
Kul
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
To say that we've been happy about the roll out of our new Wikipedia Android app would be an understatement.
In just over two weeks time we've:
- Had 827,236 total installs of our app
- Become the #1 search result for 'Wikipedia' in the market
- Held the #1 trending spot in the whole Google Android market for our first
week
- Held both the #4 & #5 spot in top free Books and Reference
- Made it onto the top 100 free apps in the Android market
- Maintained a 4.5/5 star review
- Held a consistent 87% install retention rate
And that doesn't even include our non EN numbers.
For a new app these are some truly impressive numbers and Yuvi, Brion, and the rest of the mobile team deserve all sorts of great credit for pulling this off. They've made our reviewers truly happy
Here are some of my favorite comments:
"Great Ad-free, therefore awesome." "Très bien Fait le job et fonctionne sans problème sur Galaxy Nexus." "Por fin la oficial Esta muy bien y sin ningun fallo (samsung galaxy ace)" "Plaisir libriste Nous l'attendions tous bien que ce ne soit pas sur une plate-forme Libre comme il se doit ! Topissime et plus pratique que de faire une recherche Web avec le SearchAgent le temps que firefox se lance... Merci !" "Super. Dzięki tej aplikacji mogę łatwo zmieniać język artykułu, czego brakowało mi w ich stronie minionej." "Brilliant! As someone who uses wikipedia in multiple languages, the ease of the Read in... feature is fantastic. Thank you,wikipedia! "Works great Looks great and works smoothly!"
But we certainly had our fair share of criticisms for a nasty launch bug that held on to the GSM radio even after you left the app and certain missing Android niceties like the Quick Search Box and URL intents. We fixed the first quickly and have iterated on the others to where an alpha release for them will show up shortly.
We had also long wondered if people were going to use our near by functionality. Thankfully with new stats from geonames we can easily see that were getting over 20,000 req/day (http://bit.ly/wUVHAI) for just our map functions. Soon we'll have even more stats about how many users are accessing our sites through the Android app.
There is still a lot to do but i'm pretty happy with our first dedicated push into the Android eco-system. Next stop, fixing up our iOS app to do the same.
--tomasz
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Awesome work and improvements. I have been testing the beta releases on my low end android gadget and the progress in elimination of errors and attaining of functionality is pretty perfect.
On another note, Wikipedia introduced wikipedia zero in Africa about a fortnight ago. Does this include the application's data access or Wikipedia zero only applies when a user is using a phone browser. Hope my question is clear.
Regards, Stephen. On Jan 31, 2012 6:33 PM, "Kul Wadhwa" kwadhwa@wikimedia.org wrote:
That's freakin' awesome! Way to go to everyone that helped out on this and for all the great feedback from the community. It looks the million download mark is right around the corner...
Kul
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
To say that we've been happy about the roll out of our new Wikipedia
Android
app would be an understatement.
In just over two weeks time we've:
- Had 827,236 total installs of our app
- Become the #1 search result for 'Wikipedia' in the market
- Held the #1 trending spot in the whole Google Android market for our
first
week
- Held both the #4 & #5 spot in top free Books and Reference
- Made it onto the top 100 free apps in the Android market
- Maintained a 4.5/5 star review
- Held a consistent 87% install retention rate
And that doesn't even include our non EN numbers.
For a new app these are some truly impressive numbers and Yuvi, Brion,
and
the rest of the mobile team deserve all sorts of great credit for pulling this off. They've made our reviewers truly happy
Here are some of my favorite comments:
"Great Ad-free, therefore awesome." "Très bien Fait le job et fonctionne sans problème sur Galaxy Nexus." "Por fin la oficial Esta muy bien y sin ningun fallo (samsung galaxy
ace)"
"Plaisir libriste Nous l'attendions tous bien que ce ne soit pas sur une plate-forme Libre comme il se doit ! Topissime et plus pratique que de
faire
une recherche Web avec le SearchAgent le temps que firefox se lance...
Merci
!" "Super. Dzięki tej aplikacji mogę łatwo zmieniać język artykułu, czego brakowało mi w ich stronie minionej." "Brilliant! As someone who uses wikipedia in multiple languages, the
ease of
the Read in... feature is fantastic. Thank you,wikipedia! "Works great Looks great and works smoothly!"
But we certainly had our fair share of criticisms for a nasty launch bug that held on to the GSM radio even after you left the app and certain missing Android niceties like the Quick Search Box and URL intents. We
fixed
the first quickly and have iterated on the others to where an alpha
release
for them will show up shortly.
We had also long wondered if people were going to use our near by functionality. Thankfully with new stats from geonames we can easily see that were getting over 20,000 req/day (http://bit.ly/wUVHAI) for just
our
map functions. Soon we'll have even more stats about how many users are accessing our sites through the Android app.
There is still a lot to do but i'm pretty happy with our first dedicated push into the Android eco-system. Next stop, fixing up our iOS app to do
the
same.
--tomasz
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Hi Stephen,
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:03 PM, stephen wanjau wanjaustev@gmail.com wrote:
Awesome work and improvements. I have been testing the beta releases on my low end android gadget and the progress in elimination of errors and attaining of functionality is pretty perfect.
On another note, Wikipedia introduced wikipedia zero in Africa about a fortnight ago. Does this include the application's data access or Wikipedia zero only applies when a user is using a phone browser. Hope my question is clear.
I'm not totally clear on the question but let me make an attempt. There
are no-data charges to your mobile phone bill when you access the mobile version of Wikipedia through Orange..and we're still working out the details on implementation...but probably through an Orange landing page that takes you to our mobile web version. We're still discussing ways to implement this with other partners that may require us to use certain browsers like Opera but Orange does not have that browser restriction. Does that answer your question?
--Kul
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Kul Wadhwa ktwadhwa@gmail.com wrote:
On another note, Wikipedia introduced wikipedia zero in Africa about a
fortnight ago. Does this include the application's data access or Wikipedia zero only applies when a user is using a phone browser. Hope my question is clear.
I'm not totally clear on the question but let me make an attempt. There
are no-data charges to your mobile phone bill when you access the mobile version of Wikipedia through Orange..and we're still working out the details on implementation...but probably through an Orange landing page that takes you to our mobile web version. We're still discussing ways to implement this with other partners that may require us to use certain browsers like Opera but Orange does not have that browser restriction. Does that answer your question?
So, in any event, this is *not yet in effect*, in Kenya at least, right?
A.
So, in any event, this is *not yet in effect*, in Kenya at least, right?
That's correct. Kenya will not be one of the first 6 - 8 countries we roll out to in Orange's footprint in the Middle East and Africa. That has to do with the operational constraints of each territory on Orange's side (technical and marketing) so Kenya is later on the list. We're not sure yet if it's in phase 2 (after the first 6 - 8) or phase 3 (the ones after that).
--Kul
Just to add on to Stephen's question, while using Facebook zero, it works with the phone's native browser but not on other apps that are used to access Facebook eg Opera mini, at least in my experience. Will this be the same case for Wikipedia zero, will the Wikipedia App for Android be able to access articles free of data charges or will this only be limited to a phone's native app?
Alex
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So, in any event, this is *not yet in effect*, in Kenya at least, right?
That's correct. Kenya will not be one of the first 6 - 8 countries we roll out to in Orange's footprint in the Middle East and Africa. That has to do with the operational constraints of each territory on Orange's side (technical and marketing) so Kenya is later on the list. We're not sure yet if it's in phase 2 (after the first 6 - 8) or phase 3 (the ones after that).
--Kul
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Hi Alex, In the case of Orange, it is just free access through the native browser. Other future partners may include other means of access, but will be case-by-case.
Amit
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Alex Wafula xelawafs@yahoo.com wrote:
Just to add on to Stephen's question, while using Facebook zero, it works with the phone's native browser but not on other apps that are used to access Facebook eg Opera mini, at least in my experience. Will this be the same case for Wikipedia zero, will the Wikipedia App for Android be able to access articles free of data charges or will this only be limited to a phone's native app?
Alex
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So, in any event, this is *not yet in effect*, in Kenya at least, right?
That's correct. Kenya will not be one of the first 6 - 8 countries we roll out to in Orange's footprint in the Middle East and Africa. That has to do with the operational constraints of each territory on Orange's side (technical and marketing) so Kenya is later on the list. We're not sure yet if it's in phase 2 (after the first 6 - 8) or phase 3 (the ones after that).
--Kul
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