Great work!

However, I will miss the amazing feature that allowed finding close articles by location. Any plans for restore this feature? :_( El 25/06/2014 21:07, "Sage Ross" ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com escribió:

For those without Google Play access or who otherwise prefer sideloading, here's the APK you can install directly:

https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.0...

-Sage

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:

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Hi everyone,

If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for a treat! Today we’ve released a revamped Wikipedia for Android app, now available on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.

Our new features include:

• *Speed* – Our new, native app allows you to browse and edit

Wikipedia

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faster than ever before.

• *Editing* – You can edit Wikipedia on the app. Logged in or logged

out, we thank you for all your contributions.

• *Recent pages* – We provide you with your reading history, so you

can

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tap as many links as you like without ever getting lost.

• *Saved pages* – You can save select pages for offline reading and

browse them even when you don’t have a data connection.

• *Share* – Use your existing social networking apps to share in the

sum

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of all human knowledge.

• *Language support* – The app allows you to seamlessly switch to

reading Wikipedia written in any language.

• *Wikipedia Zero* – We’ve partnered with cellular carriers around the

world to provide Wikipedia free of data charges to users in many

developing

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areas.

Coming soon:

• *Night mode* – We’ve gotten lots of great beta user feedback; one

feature people love is reading Wikipedia in darker environments. The inverted colour scheme offered by night mode will make that much

easier.

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• *Discussions* – Talk pages are an important part of Wikipedia for

both

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new users and experienced editors alike. We’re bringing them to the

app.

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This release is just the beginning! We’re still working hard on creating new features to make the app the best Wikipedia reading and editing experience out there.

Please help us improve this app by sending a note to our mailing list, mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org.

Thank you!

Dan

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Hi Andy,

The new app was built in native code from the ground up. So the nearby feature wasn't removed as much as it was never implemented.

I apologise if I sound pedantic, but this distinction is important; for the initial release of the new app, we focussed on the barebones features that we needed to have included as much as we possibly could while still getting this out of the door. The nearby feature didn't bubble up in importance as much as the others.

Right now, the most requested item in our feedback channels by far is a dark mode for night time reading. The number of requests for that are at least an order of magnitude larger than requests for any other feature, so we're focussing our efforts on that. But nearby is definitely on our roadmap.

Thanks!

Dan

On 25 June 2014 15:14, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

On 25 June 2014 20:18, Miguel García miguelgarcia@wikimedia.org.es wrote:

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I will miss the amazing feature that allowed finding close articles by location. Any plans for restore this feature?

I came here to say the same thing. I can't believe this has been removed; nor that its removal came as a surprise.

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On 25 June 2014 15:29, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:

Except that my mobile operator's IP is often blocked and not allowed to create accounts on en:wp ...

Indeed. There's not really much we can do about that, unfortunately. However, the IP ranges for mobile operators are typically softblocked, so if you have an account you can log in and use that to edit.

Not mobile-l ? Is the above a private list?

mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org points to an OTRS queue which makes it much easier for us to manage the feedback. We're trying to keep all the feedback in one channel so that we don't lose anything.

Dan

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

I've just made my first edit. Unless I missed something, there was no way to enter an edit summary.

I think you did (miss something). It gives you canned summaries "Fixed typo", "Fixed grammar", "Added links", and an "Other" option. If you select "Other", you can provide your own summary.

On Jun 26, 2014 2:16 AM, "Sage Ross" ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:

On Jun 25, 2014 9:12 PM, "Andy Mabbett" andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

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I've just made my first edit. Unless I missed something, there was no

way

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to enter an edit summary.

You can enter an edit summary. Either choose one of the predefined options for how you improved the page, or pick "other" to enter a manual edit summary.

Where?

On 26 June 2014 03:18, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

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On Jun 26, 2014 2:16 AM, "Sage Ross" ragesoss+wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:

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You can enter an edit summary. Either choose one of the predefined

options

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for how you improved the page, or pick "other" to enter a manual edit summary.

Where?

Since phone screens are small, you may have noticed that the editing process is broken up over a couple of separate steps.

Of course.

The preview stage gives you a chance to select some 'canned' brief edit summaries, or select 'other' and input your own.

Here's a screen recording I just made of the process:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Adding_an_edit_summary_in_Wikipedia_Andr...

Thank you. I didn't see the options (buttons) for pre-selected summaries, nor the "Other" option.

On further experimentation, they are hidden above the top of the screen, and I need to scroll up to see them.

I'm using the native browser on an Android 2.3.5 device.

[As a matter of interest, what software did you use to capture the video?]

On 26 June 2014 12:02, Jan Ainali jan.ainali@wikimedia.se wrote:

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I'm using the native browser on an Android 2.3.5 device.

Then you are not using the app that this thread is talking about?

Doh! Sorry, I'm using *the app* under Android 2.3.5.

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:

Sections are no longer collapsed on opening a page. This makes it harder to reach the latter sections of long articles, and presents the reader with a mobile-unfriendly "wall of text".

Can this be configurable (akin to some browser's "privacy" mode)?

With the new generation of the app we've gone with a table of contents menu in place of the confusing auto-collapsing of sections (which required individually opening every section in turn for a full read, and was still hard to scroll back *up* somewhere).

There's a button on the toolbar to open the table of contents; from there you can jump immediately to any section.

-- brion