The alpha version of the Wikipedia apps now supports offline ZIMs. With this ability these apps join the efforts to provide Wikipedia to the more than 4 billion people who do not have reliable Internet. Figuring out the impact of offline is much harder than that of online. A good app is important as offline builds off this base.
James
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Nuria Ruiz nuria@wikimedia.org wrote:
I note that it's currently impossible to find online mobile app usage statistics on the analytics we pages, dashboard or reportcard, where they last measured 0.0006% of pageviews in 2015:
You have data about app pageviews in several places, the most popular tool to see that kind of data has numbers, for example app pageviews for en.wikipedia.
The notion of what is an app pageview fluctuates more than what is a web pageview, but numbers are quite far away from being less than 1%
https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=mobile-app&source=pageview...
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 6:44 AM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
I'm skeptical that the online mobile apps are a good use of resources, with their very meager usage, especially relative to the several engineers tasked to support them, their questionable accessibility aspects, declining app store ratings, and other issues involving content substitution which have recently come up on this list, not to mention breaking the cross-platform nature of the web. I note that it's currently impossible to find online mobile app usage statistics on the analytics we pages, dashboard or reportcard, where they last measured 0.0006% of pageviews in 2015:
https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportUserAgents.htm
However, I wholeheartedly support this new offline app project, and hope that it will be the primary focus of the Foundation's app-not-web efforts going forward:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESP20HGPiE
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_ support/V1_User_research
Huge thanks to whomever directed this pivot!
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