On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 3:41 AM Kaartic Sivaraam <kaar...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [WikimediaMobile] Reading monthly update for May 2017 > Local Time: June 1, 2017 4:16 AM > UTC Time: May 31, 2017 10:46 PM > From: ckoer...@wikimedia.org > To: wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Hello, > Welcome to the first in a reoccurring monthly update from the Reading > department at the Wikimedia foundation. Here we'll provide a quick summary > of things that are currently being worked on. An archive of past activity > can be found on Mediawiki.org. Feedback and questions are welcome. > > > == Web == > > === New print styles for the mobile web === > Based on the findings of the New Readers team, we learned that users are > increasingly getting information online, and then sharing or consuming it > offline. In terms of mobile devices, this often means taking screenshots of > useful information, or saving the article as a PDF to read later on their > phones. Our older print styles did not account for reading on mobile > devices - they focused on paper printing. We will update our print styles > for mobile devices to account for offline consumption, making them easier > to read and navigate, as well as accounting for missing crucial information > such as article title and branding.[0] > > I would love to see this getting deployed :) > It's deployed! Note they will only work if you are using the print function on your phone... not if you are viewing the mobile site on desktop :) > > === Moving the lead section before the infobox on the mobile web === > Over the past few quarters, we've been focusing on the top of the article > experience on the mobile website. One of the identified issues was that, > for articles which contained an infobox, users were exposed to the infobox > content prior to having an overview of the subject of the article itself. > To improve on this issue, we've moved the lead section of each article so > that it appears before the infobox on mobile, allowing readers to have > access to the main content of the page earlier. This change is now live on > all projects. Before, [0] After [1] > > === Completing related pages deployment === > Since March 30, 2017, we have been running a test on enwiki on the related > pages feature. Over the past month, we collected data and analyzed the > performance of the feature.[2] Based on the results, we completed the > deployment of the feature on mobile English Wikipedia. > > These seem to be great features too. Thanks a lot for the great work! > -- > Regards, > Kaartic > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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