[Wikitech-l] Readers Monthly update for September 2018

Hello, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for September 2018. Feedback and questions are encouraged. ==Discussions== === Apps=== * Work is underway to bring Wikidata description editing to the iOS app. [0] === Web === * The Advanced mobile contributions project saw an updated navigation prototype go out to folks. We contacted ~30 people we met at Wikimania directly, shared in Tech News, posted to 15 language specific wikis where mobile usage was the highest, to the wikimedia-l, wikitech-l, and mobile-l mailing lists, and to the Wikipedia Weekly Facebook group. [1] [2] [3] === Reading Infrastructure === * Made small corrections to parentheses stripping in /page/summary endpoint: [4] [5] * Map cluster upgrade to Debian Stretch is in progress: [6] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [7] [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193691 [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions/Na… [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197715 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198264 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202119 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198622 [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates --- Subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Readers_Monthly The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Status_updates Yours, Chris Koerner Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation