Some very positive press coverage right now:
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http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/15/wikipedia-bets-big-on-photos-with-its-upd…
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http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/wikipedia-rolls-out-a-redesigned-mobile-ap…
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http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/01/15/wikipedias-android-app-updated-better…
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http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/15/wikipedia-updates-android-app-mater…
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http://www.androidcentral.com/wikipedia-app-grabs-ton-features-their-materi…
And some vital statistics. Bear in mind this is in the 2.5 hours the app's
been live!
- 3,802 users have seen a read more panel already. 763 have clicked on
one of the results.
- 1,772 users have used the image viewer (I had to update this, by the
time I got to the end of the email it had gone up to 1,649!)
Good reviews coming in:
- "Last excellent version with a dark theme for night reading. Material
design welcome"
- "Real chic .... above about the article is now a picture and now looks
really great. An improved image display is now at the start :)"
- "Indispensable After the last update is stupendous"
Excellent work, team!
Dan
On 15 January 2015 at 13:08, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Our latest update to the official Wikipedia Android
app is now available
on the Google Play Store! [1] Here's a high-level overview of the features
introduced in this release:
* Lead images -- When navigating to an article, the app now displays the
most relevant image from the article at the very top, with the image
expanded to fit the width of your screen, and the title of the article
overlaid onto it.
* Image gallery -- Tap on any image in an article (including the lead
image) to see a full-screen gallery where the image may be panned and
zoomed. You may also "swipe" left and right to browse through other images
that are part of the article. There are also options, accessible from the
toolbar on the top right, for sharing the image to your favorite social
media apps, saving it directly to your device, showing miscellaneous
information (Exif) about the image, and navigating to its File: page on
Wikipedia.
* Descriptions from Wikidata -- The app is now integrated with Wikidata
[2] to provide quick descriptions next to search results, as well as in
Nearby results, in disambiguation links, and in further reading suggestions.
* Search enhancements -- We have improved the search experience
(accessible from the top toolbar) to intelligently incorporate search
results from title-only searches, as well as full-text searches, so that
typing a search term will give you the most relevant result.
* Disambiguation and "page issues" links have been improved and restyled.
* Suggestions for further reading are provided at the bottom of articles.
* Infoboxes and other tables contained in articles are now collapsed by
default.
* The toolbar at the top has been restyled to follow the new Material
Design guidelines introduced in Android 5.0.
* When editing, templates are shown in a different color to help
differentiate between the template and regular text.
Enjoy!
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Dmitry Brant
Mobile Apps Team (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering
[1]
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia
[2]
http://wikidata.org
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