[Wikitech-l] Readers Monthly update for August 2018

Hello all, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the Wikimedia Foundation for August 2018. Feedback and questions are encouraged. ==Discussions== === Apps=== * The Android team has been hard at work on a limited beta test of a subset of echo notifications in the app, designed to encourage repeat contributions. [0] Check out the full update on our |project page. [1] * iOS released a major redesign of the app's Explore feed, adding the ability to customize the content on your home screen and make it easier to mix content from across languages. [2] A small follow-up bug fix update will be released early next week. iOS also made progress on design research on Wikitext editing: Watch our project page for updates soon.[3] === Web === * Web team have begun compiling a list of common problems that they wrestle with trying to make our content mobile friendly. The end result is Recommendations for mobile friendly articles. [4] These are recommendations not guidelines and some are more feasible/easy to change then others. We ask that you raise awareness and contribute to the talk page with any questions, suggestions you have. *Web has updated the Advanced mobile contributions project page and shared outcomes from Wikimania interviews. [4] * We are close to running an A/B test for mobile friendly page issues - you can get a sneak preview on our staging instance which will present the new treatment 50% of the time. [5] === Reading Infrastructure === * Maps ** Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued) ** Added Stretch testing instance (deployment-maps04) to the Beta Cluster ** Upgrading node-mapnik to 3.7.2 (mapnik 3.0.20) ** Posted the August 14, 2018 update on Status of map styles [6] ** Start regenerating low-zoom levels monthly ** Improving tooling for invalidating cached map tiles *Services ** Ran Android announcement for the new multi-language search and feed issue in multiple languages ** PCS media endpoint: *** Updated to be ready for <audio> tags (Previously Parsoid used <video> tags for audio) *** Added language code for descriptions and artists ** PCS mobile-html endpoint: *** Made some improvements in the presentation of the content, but still more to come *** Making change to CSS in page library to fix an infobox issue, also present in the native apps due to infobox collapsing. [7] [8] ** REST Mobile endpoints have been removed from non-Wikipedia projects (T201103#4490994) [9] (Platform team) * Other ** (with MediaWiki Platform team) Added support for skin-specific selector to TemplateStyles === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [10] [0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features#17_August_2018 [2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Recommendations_for_mobile_friendly_articles [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Advanced_mobile_contributions [5] https://reading-web-staging.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Pharmacovigilance… [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Maps/Status_of_map_styles [7] https://github.com/wikimedia/wikimedia-page-library/pull/158 [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201381 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201103#4490994 [10] 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