Dear WLM Members,
As of yesterday, a banner promoting the WLM Android App has appeared on all pages of the WIkipedia mobile site and the sister projects, on Android devices only. This banner can be closed easily by the user, and won't appear again until the user clears the data of his/her browser.
To summarize, the banner:
- appears on the mobile site only - appears on Android devices only - appears on all pages in all languages - can be closed easily and persistently - is being localized - links to the app on Google Play
We are tracking downloads of the app to see what impact this makes.
To all of you who considered putting the banner on your WIkipedia main page, this removes the need for making the manual change. I believe there were no cases where this was actually done, but if it was, the banner would appear twice on the main page, so the manual version can be removed.
Thank you for your support.
Phil
On 14/09/12 20:00, Philip Chang wrote:
To all of you who considered putting the banner on your Wikipedia main page, this removes the need for making the manual change. I believe there were no cases where this was actually done, but if it was, the banner would appear twice on the main page, so the manual version can be removed.
It was indeed placed in some wikipedias, so we will need to remove them.
Is there a way to force it to show for previewing? (eg. visit xx.m.wikipedia.org with certain User-Agent)
Thanks for your work. This seems a big step in the right direction.
2012/9/14 Philip Chang pchang@wikimedia.org:
To all of you who considered putting the banner on your WIkipedia main page, this removes the need for making the manual change. I believe there were no cases where this was actually done, but if it was, the banner would appear twice on the main page, so the manual version can be removed.
This mean that we should undo this change https://it.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pagina_principale&diff=521824... on it.wiki?
Cristian
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