[Apps] New Android production release - Mobile-l

Pine W

2 Mar 2 Mar

5:04 a.m.

General comment: I uninstalled the Wikipedia Android app awhile ago, as I was using it little and didn't find that it added much value to tasks that are useful to me. A few days ago, shortly before this update, I installed the app again and was pleasantly surprised by how much development had taken place in the meantime. The app now seems to be much more media-intensive and colorful than mobile web. I'm not sure how much I'll use the app, but I can tell there's been a lot of work invested in it, and the UX is more strongly differentiated from the mobile web interface. If I knew less about English vocabulary, I think that one of my favorite features in the Android app would be the ease of obtaining definitions from Wiktionary. Overall, I'm impressed. Thanks for the good work. Pine On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Hi all, We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>, rolling out now to the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights from this update (or browse the complete change history <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.5.190-r-2017-02-24> ): - Contribute to Wikipedia by editing title descriptions for articles that you browse! (Powered by Wikidata, and currently limited to Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan Wikipedia. More languages will follow, once we analyze engagement data with this initial group of communities. If you're interested, here is the original project outline <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Short_descriptions>, and the rollout announcement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_description_editing_in_the_Wikipedia_Android_app> ) - Support for two-factor authentication when logging in. - Improved multi-window support for Samsung devices and for Android Nougat. - Improved network performance and offline support for cached page previews. - Minor UI refinements to image gallery, link previews, and reading lists. - Changing the wiki language now also changes the app UI language. - Numerous bug and crash fixes. Special thanks to the volunteer contributors who submitted patches for this release: The Discoverer - [[mw:User:The Discoverer]] Dinu Kumarasiri - IRC: sandaru, https://github.com/sandarumk Odysseas Kristalakos - https://github.com/OdysseasKr Kunal Grover - https://github.com/kunalgrover05 If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting started <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hacking> guide. We're looking forward to your contributions! [1] For devices without Google Play services, you may download <https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.5.190-releasesprod-2017-02-24.apk> the app directly. -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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Stephen Niedzielski

4:52 p.m.

My apologies for this poor experience! The app language and search language are tied together currently but the issue is being tracked here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159000 Stephen On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Changing the wiki language now also changes the app UI language.

That doesn't sound too handy for myself. I often change to a different language, many that I can't read at all. If the app's ui language were to follow me in that, I'd be rather unpleasantly surprised. Is there some form of confirmation or warning to the user (the first time this happens) ? A way to override or avoid possibly ? DJ On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hi all, We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>, rolling out now to the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights from this update (or browse the complete change history <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.5.190-r-2017-02-24> ): - Contribute to Wikipedia by editing title descriptions for articles that you browse! (Powered by Wikidata, and currently limited to Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan Wikipedia. More languages will follow, once we analyze engagement data with this initial group of communities. If you're interested, here is the original project outline <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Short_descriptions>, and the rollout announcement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_description_editing_in_the_Wikipedia_Android_app> ) - Support for two-factor authentication when logging in. - Improved multi-window support for Samsung devices and for Android Nougat. - Improved network performance and offline support for cached page previews. - Minor UI refinements to image gallery, link previews, and reading lists. - Changing the wiki language now also changes the app UI language. - Numerous bug and crash fixes. Special thanks to the volunteer contributors who submitted patches for this release: The Discoverer - [[mw:User:The Discoverer]] Dinu Kumarasiri - IRC: sandaru, https://github.com/sandarumk Odysseas Kristalakos - https://github.com/OdysseasKr Kunal Grover - https://github.com/kunalgrover05 If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting started <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hacking> guide. We're looking forward to your contributions! [1] For devices without Google Play services, you may download <https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.5.190-releasesprod-2017-02-24.apk> the app directly. -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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Natalia Harateh

4 Mar 4 Mar

2:10 a.m.

Congratulations team! <http://gph.is/23yQ5oe> On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 10:54 PM, Corey Floyd <cfloyd(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Haven’t had time to respond earlier, but wanted to congratulate the team on a really awesome release! I really love the Wikidata Description editing and can’t wait for it to ship on English after we are done evaluating it. …And to build on Pine’s comment: It is obvious how much work has been put into the app over the past year. It’s great to hear how old users now come back to the app and find a reason to keep using it. Thanks to the Android team for all their effort! On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 9:52 AM Stephen Niedzielski < sniedzielski(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

My apologies for this poor experience! The app language and search language are tied together currently but the issue is being tracked here: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T159000 Stephen On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 1:38 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.hartman+wmf_ml(a)gmail.com> wrote:

Changing the wiki language now also changes the app UI language.

That doesn't sound too handy for myself. I often change to a different language, many that I can't read at all. If the app's ui language were to follow me in that, I'd be rather unpleasantly surprised. Is there some form of confirmation or warning to the user (the first time this happens) ? A way to override or avoid possibly ? DJ On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: Hi all, We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>, rolling out now to the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights from this update (or browse the complete change history <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;r/2.5.190-r-2017-02-24> ): - Contribute to Wikipedia by editing title descriptions for articles that you browse! (Powered by Wikidata, and currently limited to Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan Wikipedia. More languages will follow, once we analyze engagement data with this initial group of communities. If you're interested, here is the original project outline <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Short_descriptions>, and the rollout announcement <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Wikidata_description_editing_in_the_Wikipedia_Android_app> ) - Support for two-factor authentication when logging in. - Improved multi-window support for Samsung devices and for Android Nougat. - Improved network performance and offline support for cached page previews. - Minor UI refinements to image gallery, link previews, and reading lists. - Changing the wiki language now also changes the app UI language. - Numerous bug and crash fixes. Special thanks to the volunteer contributors who submitted patches for this release: The Discoverer - [[mw:User:The Discoverer]] Dinu Kumarasiri - IRC: sandaru, https://github.com/sandarumk Odysseas Kristalakos - https://github.com/OdysseasKr Kunal Grover - https://github.com/kunalgrover05 If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting started <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hacking> guide. We're looking forward to your contributions! [1] For devices without Google Play services, you may download <https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.5.190-releasesprod-2017-02-24.apk> the app directly. -- Dmitry Brant Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android) Wikimedia Foundation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering _______________________________________________ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android+unsubscribe(a)wikimedia.org. To post to this group, send email to android(a)wikimedia.org. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "android" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android+unsubscribe(a)wikimedia.org. To post to this group, send email to android(a)wikimedia.org.

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