Hello mobile wikimedians,
Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on today's awesome update!
On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5 version of Wikipedia to the App Store.
We expect users will see: - less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed - full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation - use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our backups - most importantly, less crashes!!
We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and small.
Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723, bart-kneepkens and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a for his invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our beta testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and diagnose stability issues.
Thanks, Josh
[1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the long beta in previous announce post here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html
Congrats iOS folks -- a good day for apps indeed!
-Toby
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Minor jminor@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello mobile wikimedians,
Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on today's awesome update!
On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5 version of Wikipedia to the App Store.
We expect users will see:
- less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed
- full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation
- use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our
backups
- most importantly, less crashes!!
We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and small.
Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723, bart-kneepkens and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a for his invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our beta testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and diagnose stability issues.
Thanks, Josh
[1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the long beta in previous announce post here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Keep at it, mobile apps. Looking good! /a
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congrats iOS folks -- a good day for apps indeed!
-Toby
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Minor jminor@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello mobile wikimedians,
Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on today's awesome update!
On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5 version of Wikipedia to the App Store.
We expect users will see:
- less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed
- full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation
- use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our
backups
- most importantly, less crashes!!
We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and small.
Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723, bart-kneepkens and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a for his invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our beta testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and diagnose stability issues.
Thanks, Josh
[1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the long beta in previous announce post here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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Congrats, team. As of v.5 the app has become my primary mode of accessing Wikipedia on my phone (snappier than the browser and the multilingual search really did it for me).
Keep up the great work!
On Jul 28, 2016, at 19:46, Anna Stillwell astillwell@wikimedia.org wrote:
Keep at it, mobile apps. Looking good! /a
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote: Congrats iOS folks -- a good day for apps indeed!
-Toby
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Minor jminor@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello mobile wikimedians,
Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on today's awesome update!
On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5 version of Wikipedia to the App Store.
We expect users will see:
- less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed
- full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation
- use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our backups
- most importantly, less crashes!!
We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and small.
Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723, bart-kneepkens and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a for his invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our beta testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and diagnose stability issues.
Thanks, Josh
[1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the long beta in previous announce post here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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Congratulations to the iOS team!
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Congrats, team. As of v.5 the app has become my primary mode of accessing Wikipedia on my phone (snappier than the browser and the multilingual search really did it for me).
Keep up the great work!
On Jul 28, 2016, at 19:46, Anna Stillwell astillwell@wikimedia.org wrote:
Keep at it, mobile apps. Looking good! /a
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Toby Negrin tnegrin@wikimedia.org wrote:
Congrats iOS folks -- a good day for apps indeed!
-Toby
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Minor jminor@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello mobile wikimedians,
Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on today's awesome update!
On iOS, after a long beta testing period[1], focusing on improving performance and reducing crashes and instability, we've released the 5.0.5 version of Wikipedia to the App Store.
We expect users will see:
- less hangs or failures to load on the Explore feed
- full AuthManager support and stable account log in and creation
- use less device resources, espeically when backgrounded and in our
backups
- most importantly, less crashes!!
We also fixed over a two dozen other bugs and usability issues, large and small.
Thanks to our volunteers (particularly thanks to huayu0723, bart-kneepkens and gregggreg2 for their code contributions, and josve05a for his invaluable help with OTRS and testing). I also want to thank our beta testers, who put in extra effort on this version to help us find and diagnose stability issues.
Thanks, Josh
[1] - You can read about the changes we made and the reason behind the long beta in previous announce post here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Wmfall mailing list Wmfall@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfall
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