[Wikitech-l] Readers Monthly update for December 2017

Howdy, This is the monthly update from the Readers team at the foundation for December 2017. As always, feedback and questions are welcome. == Discussions == === Apps=== * Android made 2 releases: a major release introduced (amongst other things) a fully customisable Explore feed, a new and improved Randomiser, and by popular request a new Black theme that optimises battery life on AMOLED displays. A subsequent minor release fixed a few bugs/performance issues. [0] === Web === * Performance testing of the new PDF renderer is giving hopeful results [1] * New summary endpoint, created to provide better page previews is ready for deployment to all projects * Initial bugs with download to PDF button on mobile now resolved === Reading Infrastructure === * Deployed the ReadingLists extension and Reading List Service to production. [2] [3] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [4] === Multimedia === * Data Analysts Chelsy and Mikhail have completed baseline metrics for Wikimedia Commons to understand and measure the impact the Structured Data project will have. [5] === Discovery === The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month. * 2017-12-04 [6] * 2017-12-11 [7] [0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en_GB [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178278 [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReadingLists [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_List_Service [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Baseline_Metrics_for_Structured_Da… [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-12-04 [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-12-11 --- 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 Liaison Wikimedia Foundation