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 _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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

So, in any event, this is *not yet in effect*, in Kenya at least, right?

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 ------------------------------ ** 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 _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l