The Android team[0] is happy to announce a new Wikipedia Android app beta release, v2.0.110-beta-2015-08-31[1]. This revision contains the following fixes and enhancements:
* Improved search result ordering! * About half a dozen crash fixes * Bug fix for unnecessarily downloading saved page images * Dismiss link preview when navigating to any page * Hide refresh and remove buttons when no saved pages exist * Autoscroll to URL fragment for redirected pages
Make it better! Read our getting started guide[3]. We cannot wait for your contributions!
-The WMF Android team
[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team#Android_App [1] Rolling out at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta [2] A complete list of changes is available at
http://git.wikimedia.org/commits/apps%2Fandroid%2Fwikipedia/beta%2F2.0.109-b... [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_hac...
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedzielski@wikimedia.org> wrote:
- Autoscroll to URL fragment for redirected pages
Woot. This is small and silly but has bothered me for ages ;) Thanks to all of you for your continued hard work on this!
Luis
We had some extra help on this one! The URL fragment change was due to Florian Schmidt's (FlorianSW) efforts!
It's also worth noting that this release saw contributions from Dan Garry (Deskana) and Asad Salman (asadpsalman). Thanks everyone for your wonderful commits!
--stephen
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedzielski@wikimedia.org> wrote:
- Autoscroll to URL fragment for redirected pages
Woot. This is small and silly but has bothered me for ages ;) Thanks to all of you for your continued hard work on this!
Luis
-- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.*
Thanks for the mention Stephen! I'm glad I was able to pitch in. I feel lucky to have my first open source contribution released so soon, to be used by thousands. It is an amazing feeling.
Thank you, everyone who helped me get started. You, Dan and Florian were incredibly helpful. Looking forward to helping out more.
Thanks!
-Asad @AsadSalmann http://twitter.com/asadsalmann
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedzielski@wikimedia.org> wrote:
We had some extra help on this one! The URL fragment change was due to Florian Schmidt's (FlorianSW) efforts!
It's also worth noting that this release saw contributions from Dan Garry (Deskana) and Asad Salman (asadpsalman). Thanks everyone for your wonderful commits!
--stephen
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Luis Villa lvilla@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedzielski@wikimedia.org> wrote:
- Autoscroll to URL fragment for redirected pages
Woot. This is small and silly but has bothered me for ages ;) Thanks to all of you for your continued hard work on this!
Luis
-- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.*
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On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski sniedzielski@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Improved search result ordering!
Can you share some details on what was changed ?
--tomasz
Hey! Most of the details are covered in T104746[0], T110231[1], and T92796[2]. As I understand it, the search API now offers order indices for redirected pages which we can take advantage of in the app. Previously, the order was not prioritized and this caused a poor search experience. The infamous example is searching for "obama" and getting "I Got a Crush... on Obama" as a top hit. You shouldn't see this behavior as of this release. Dmitry implemented the new functionality and can probably word all that better.
--stephen
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104746 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110231 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796, there's a nice overview by Bryan Davis here too, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796#1582443
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski sniedzielski@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Improved search result ordering!
Can you share some details on what was changed ?
--tomasz
Thanks. Let's keep tabs on Search Apps dashboard [1] to see the impact level of this.
--tomasz
[1] - http://searchdata.wmflabs.org/metrics/#shiny-tab-app_events
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Stephen Niedzielski sniedzielski@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey! Most of the details are covered in T104746[0], T110231[1], and T92796[2]. As I understand it, the search API now offers order indices for redirected pages which we can take advantage of in the app. Previously, the order was not prioritized and this caused a poor search experience. The infamous example is searching for "obama" and getting "I Got a Crush... on Obama" as a top hit. You shouldn't see this behavior as of this release. Dmitry implemented the new functionality and can probably word all that better.
--stephen
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104746 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110231 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796, there's a nice overview by Bryan Davis here too, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796#1582443
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski sniedzielski@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Improved search result ordering!
Can you share some details on what was changed ?
--tomasz
I'm glad you were able to make use of this quick fix. It's currently on the Discovery Department's roadmap for us to overhaul and improve the search API. However, we've determined our current work gives bigger rewards for our users, so that work isn't planned to take place until mid-2016. In the mean time, the fix makes it work.
Thanks, Dan
On 1 September 2015 at 10:36, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedzielski@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hey! Most of the details are covered in T104746[0], T110231[1], and T92796[2]. As I understand it, the search API now offers order indices for redirected pages which we can take advantage of in the app. Previously, the order was not prioritized and this caused a poor search experience. The infamous example is searching for "obama" and getting "I Got a Crush... on Obama" as a top hit. You shouldn't see this behavior as of this release. Dmitry implemented the new functionality and can probably word all that better.
--stephen
[0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104746 [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110231 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796, there's a nice overview by Bryan Davis here too, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796#1582443
On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Tomasz Finc tfinc@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski sniedzielski@wikimedia.org wrote:
- Improved search result ordering!
Can you share some details on what was changed ?
--tomasz