Today's update to the Wikipedia app[1] includes the following changes:
Add Today menu Dark theme: appearance of images, background on editing screens, remove inline colors from within tables References with page internal links work now Fix crash when clicking on link in references panel Show number of matches when finding in page (4.1+) Remove flashing of empty message in saved pages/history screens during loading Language variants for Chinese
It's basically the same as the beta we pushed on Monday minus the experimental features.
It may take an hour or two before it is visible for everybody. A link to the apk is also available[2].
Enjoy! Bernd
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Release_history#Wikipedia
Thanks Bernd! Very happy we've got these fixes for Chinese language variants out, considering we know we have a lot of users in mainland China.
Dan On 7 Aug 2014 23:31, "Bernd Sitzmann" bsitzmann@wikimedia.org wrote:
Today's update to the Wikipedia app[1] includes the following changes:
Add Today menu Dark theme: appearance of images, background on editing screens, remove inline colors from within tables References with page internal links work now Fix crash when clicking on link in references panel Show number of matches when finding in page (4.1+) Remove flashing of empty message in saved pages/history screens during loading Language variants for Chinese
It's basically the same as the beta we pushed on Monday minus the experimental features.
It may take an hour or two before it is visible for everybody. A link to the apk is also available[2].
Enjoy! Bernd
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To follow up on this, this helps to address language variants in the articles, with the UI dialect stuff to come in a later patch.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks Bernd! Very happy we've got these fixes for Chinese language variants out, considering we know we have a lot of users in mainland China.
Dan On 7 Aug 2014 23:31, "Bernd Sitzmann" bsitzmann@wikimedia.org wrote:
Today's update to the Wikipedia app[1] includes the following changes:
Add Today menu Dark theme: appearance of images, background on editing screens, remove inline colors from within tables References with page internal links work now Fix crash when clicking on link in references panel Show number of matches when finding in page (4.1+) Remove flashing of empty message in saved pages/history screens during loading Language variants for Chinese
It's basically the same as the beta we pushed on Monday minus the experimental features.
It may take an hour or two before it is visible for everybody. A link to the apk is also available[2].
Enjoy! Bernd
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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I've update the "what's new" section to say: "Language variants for Chinese articles"
The UI includes only simplified Chinese for now. So, we'll need to add traditional. But that requires some changes on translatewiki.net first.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Adam Baso abaso@wikimedia.org wrote:
To follow up on this, this helps to address language variants in the articles, with the UI dialect stuff to come in a later patch.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Thanks Bernd! Very happy we've got these fixes for Chinese language variants out, considering we know we have a lot of users in mainland China.
Dan On 7 Aug 2014 23:31, "Bernd Sitzmann" bsitzmann@wikimedia.org wrote:
Today's update to the Wikipedia app[1] includes the following changes:
Add Today menu Dark theme: appearance of images, background on editing screens, remove inline colors from within tables References with page internal links work now Fix crash when clicking on link in references panel Show number of matches when finding in page (4.1+) Remove flashing of empty message in saved pages/history screens during loading Language variants for Chinese
It's basically the same as the beta we pushed on Monday minus the experimental features.
It may take an hour or two before it is visible for everybody. A link to the apk is also available[2].
Enjoy! Bernd
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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Lots of good stuff here. The new "Today" icon makes me happy - I want to keep tapping it :)
:) Thanks Erik! Glad it works.
---- Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Lots of good stuff here. The new "Today" icon makes me happy - I want to keep tapping it :)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi Android Mobilisers,
I updated the app but when I search for Wikipedia Signpost I am still taken to the top of the Wikipedia Community article instead of the Media section.
I like the "today" icon. I'm curious, why is that a "today" icon instead of "home" or "main page"?
I just discovered the "share" feature. Cool. In that same menu can we offer text-to-speech, including Bluetooth and speaker options for the audio?
Pine On Aug 8, 2014 3:00 PM, "Vibha Bamba" vbamba@wikimedia.org wrote:
:) Thanks Erik! Glad it works.
Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Lots of good stuff here. The new "Today" icon makes me happy - I want to keep tapping it :)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi, still waiting for someone to follow up.
Thanks, Pine On Aug 8, 2014 11:07 PM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Android Mobilisers,
I updated the app but when I search for Wikipedia Signpost I am still taken to the top of the Wikipedia Community article instead of the Media section.
I like the "today" icon. I'm curious, why is that a "today" icon instead of "home" or "main page"?
I just discovered the "share" feature. Cool. In that same menu can we offer text-to-speech, including Bluetooth and speaker options for the audio?
Pine On Aug 8, 2014 3:00 PM, "Vibha Bamba" vbamba@wikimedia.org wrote:
:) Thanks Erik! Glad it works.
Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Lots of good stuff here. The new "Today" icon makes me happy - I want to keep tapping it :)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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Hey Pine,
I am (unexpectedly) travelling back to San Francisco from Manchester today. I'll try to reply as soon as possible once I'm back.
Thanks, Dan On 14 Aug 2014 07:22, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, still waiting for someone to follow up.
Thanks, Pine On Aug 8, 2014 11:07 PM, "Pine W" wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Android Mobilisers,
I updated the app but when I search for Wikipedia Signpost I am still taken to the top of the Wikipedia Community article instead of the Media section.
I like the "today" icon. I'm curious, why is that a "today" icon instead of "home" or "main page"?
I just discovered the "share" feature. Cool. In that same menu can we offer text-to-speech, including Bluetooth and speaker options for the audio?
Pine On Aug 8, 2014 3:00 PM, "Vibha Bamba" vbamba@wikimedia.org wrote:
:) Thanks Erik! Glad it works.
Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Lots of good stuff here. The new "Today" icon makes me happy - I want to keep tapping it :)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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Hi Pine,
We used the today icon to see how that plays out, since that page represents featured content for the day and news. It conveys a better sense of immediacy than Home. Further, home in a lot of other app cases reflects more personalized content, which we don't do.
Thanks Vibha
---- Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Android Mobilisers,
I updated the app but when I search for Wikipedia Signpost I am still taken to the top of the Wikipedia Community article instead of the Media section.
I like the "today" icon. I'm curious, why is that a "today" icon instead of "home" or "main page"?
I just discovered the "share" feature. Cool. In that same menu can we offer text-to-speech, including Bluetooth and speaker options for the audio?
Pine On Aug 8, 2014 3:00 PM, "Vibha Bamba" vbamba@wikimedia.org wrote:
:) Thanks Erik! Glad it works.
Vibha Bamba Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Lots of good stuff here. The new "Today" icon makes me happy - I want to keep tapping it :)
-- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
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2014-08-14 21:20 GMT+03:00 Vibha Bamba vbamba@wikimedia.org:
Hi Pine,
We used the today icon to see how that plays out, since that page represents featured content for the day and news.
More precisely, it represents these things in the English Wikipedia, as well as Hebrew, Russian, Catalan and a few other languages, but I'm really not sure that it's true for all languages. In a parallel universe where Wikipedia is designed top-down for all languages from the start this may be true for all languages. (In the same parallel universe, "all languages" means seven or so.)
That said, it's legitimate to wait and see if any language community complains ;)
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
On 8 August 2014 23:07, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Android Mobilisers,
I updated the app but when I search for Wikipedia Signpost I am still taken to the top of the Wikipedia Community article instead of the Media section.
This is bug 65496 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65496.
I like the "today" icon. I'm curious, why is that a "today" icon instead of "home" or "main page"?
The home page of the app is main page right now... but it might not be in the future! We have a few ideas about what we might want to put on there, such as recommendations for articles to read/edit.
In order to future-proof the app, "Today" will always take you to a short summary of today's featured article and what's in the news (i.e. the mobile version of [[Main Page]]).
I just discovered the "share" feature. Cool. In that same menu can we
offer text-to-speech, including Bluetooth and speaker options for the audio?
This is something that's handled by the OS. For example, Android comes with Google TalkBack [1], an accessibility app which includes a screen reader. That said, we should make sure that the app plays nicely with it; we recently discovered that the iOS app doesn't handle these kinds of things very well, but we got a few fixes in to improve how it works.
Thanks Pine! Let me know if you have any more questions.
Dan
On 15 August 2014 09:49, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Google TalkBack [1]
Oops, forgot the link!
[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.marvin.talk...
Dan
Is there a way of including text-to-speech as a menu item in the app?
Pine On Aug 15, 2014 9:50 AM, "Dan Garry" dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 15 August 2014 09:49, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Google TalkBack [1]
Oops, forgot the link!
Dan
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On 15 August 2014 13:58, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way of including text-to-speech as a menu item in the app?
Perhaps, but as I stated before that would not be in keeping with the design patterns of the platform. The OS itself handles this already, and it would be redundant to try to handle it ourselves.
Dan
Maybe I'm being unclear. I'm asking if we could link to the OS's text to speech app, or link to where the app can be downloaded. Otherwise some people like me might not realize that text-to-speech is an option through the OS.
Thanks,
Pine On Aug 15, 2014 2:23 PM, "Dan Garry" dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 15 August 2014 13:58, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way of including text-to-speech as a menu item in the app?
Perhaps, but as I stated before that would not be in keeping with the design patterns of the platform. The OS itself handles this already, and it would be redundant to try to handle it ourselves.
Dan
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
On 15 August 2014 14:40, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe I'm being unclear. I'm asking if we could link to the OS's text to speech app, or link to where the app can be downloaded. Otherwise some people like me might not realize that text-to-speech is an option through the OS.
I guess I'm not really understanding the use case. I think I'm not the only one though, because I've honestly not found any apps that have this functionality.
I'd rather not open this can of worms, as there are many potential complications. Our efforts are better focussed elsewhere for now.
Dan
Ok, thanks. (:
Pine On Aug 15, 2014 3:04 PM, "Dan Garry" dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 15 August 2014 14:40, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe I'm being unclear. I'm asking if we could link to the OS's text to speech app, or link to where the app can be downloaded. Otherwise some people like me might not realize that text-to-speech is an option through the OS.
I guess I'm not really understanding the use case. I think I'm not the only one though, because I've honestly not found any apps that have this functionality.
I'd rather not open this can of worms, as there are many potential complications. Our efforts are better focussed elsewhere for now.
Dan
-- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation