Re: [WikimediaMobile] hacks I particularly liked at Lyon
Dmitry's and Joaquin's hacks stand out for me both because of their quality and the obvious benefits we'd gain by following up on them. Aaron Halfaker's work, as usual, was great. I'm loath to call any of the projects that were presented hacks, because they were all really high quality – apart from RC haikus… –Sam On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey everyone, Just wanted to send my notes on the hack demos from this weekend, and potentially start a discussion about shipping some of them! *Apple Watch: *Corey Jason did an incredible job on this, and I'm essentially sold that a watch companion app could augment our *read later* and *search* flows for what seems like a reasonable development cost. Not sure who did it, but server-side image/upload validation could be further facilitate cross-platform mobile uploads? *Image surface content gap*: IOW, which pages are in the most need of pictures. Seems like a micro edit workflow that could work well for apps when combined with location/geo-fencing. *Haikus from recent changes:* More of a technical inspiration: I'd love to discuss building a service that sends push notifications in response to RC stream events. *Dmitry's Wikipedia Lite hack*: I think we should do some prototypes on this. In particular, I'd like to play around with parsoid to create a reader view for Wikipedia pages. Aside from streamlining content for mobile and improving performance, this could also make it easier to bring back a lot of reader-centric features. Dynamic font sizes color/contrast configurations are two things I see pop up from time to time in OTRS iTunes. *Bernd's map view for Nearby:* This seems like a no-brainer. I sent a separate email to mobile-l, because it seems like some progress has been made in this area since I last looked into it. What were your favorite hacks? -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Re: [WikimediaMobile] iOS 4.1.4 is live
Nice work! Just downloaded and I'm impressed with the performance as well as the polish. Keep up the good work! -Toby On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Corey Floyd cfl...@wikimedia.org wrote: This version has a lot of visual updates, performance improvements, and bug fixes - we even tweaked the icon. Overall this is a pretty nice release that applies some much needed polish in a lot of places. Please check it out when you get a chance and let us know what you think. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8 -- Corey Floyd Software Engineer Mobile Apps / iOS Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
[WikimediaMobile] iOS 4.1.4 is live
This version has a lot of visual updates, performance improvements, and bug fixes - we even tweaked the icon. Overall this is a pretty nice release that applies some much needed polish in a lot of places. Please check it out when you get a chance and let us know what you think. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8 -- Corey Floyd Software Engineer Mobile Apps / iOS Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month
Cross posting for visibility. This kind of stuff gets posted to the API lists, so be sure to subscribe to those if you aren't already subscribed to them. -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjor...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 1:42 PM Subject: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for action=query will change at the end of this month To: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org, mediawiki-api-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org As has been announced several times (most recently at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. *The date is now set:* we intend to merge the change to ride the deployment train at the end of June. That should be 1.26wmf12, to be deployed to test wikis on June 30, non-Wikipedias on July 1, and Wikipedias on July 2. If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change (as seen here https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=querylist=allpages, for example), it's time to fix your code! - The simple solution is to simply include the rawcontinue parameter with your request to continue receiving the raw continuation data ( example https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=querylist=allpagesrawcontinue=1 ). No other code changes should be necessary. - Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation documented at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries (example https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=querylist=allpagescontinue= ), which is much easier for clients to implement correctly. Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it works because you stop seeing the warning. I've compiled a list of bots that have hit the deprecation warning more than 1 times over the course of the week May 23–29. If you are responsible for any of these bots, please fix them. If you know who is, please make sure they've seen this notification. Thanks. AAlertBot AboHeidiBot AbshirBot Acebot Ameenbot ArnauBot Beau.bot Begemot-Bot BeneBot* BeriBot BOT-Superzerocool CalakBot CamelBot CandalBot CategorizationBot CatWatchBot ClueBot_III ClueBot_NG CobainBot CorenSearchBot Cyberbot_I Cyberbot_II DanmicholoBot DeltaQuadBot Dexbot Dibot EdinBot ElphiBot ErfgoedBot Faebot Fatemibot FawikiPatroller HAL HasteurBot HerculeBot Hexabot HRoestBot IluvatarBot Invadibot Irclogbot Irfan-bot Jimmy-abot JYBot Krdbot Legobot Lowercase_sigmabot_III MahdiBot MalarzBOT MastiBot Merge_bot NaggoBot NasirkhanBot NirvanaBot Obaid-bot PatruBOT PBot Phe-bot Rezabot RMCD_bot Shuaib-bot SineBot SteinsplitterBot SvickBOT TaxonBot Theo's_Little_Bot W2Bot WLE-SpainBot Xqbot YaCBot ZedlikBot ZkBot -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikitech-l mailing list wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on
I'm inclined to agree with Matt. In fact (and to answer Oliver's question), the team is already considering the next slew of micro-contribution projects. I think it is too early to say which projects will be next, but some ideas include: choosing lead images, editing wikidata descriptions, and refining categorization of topics. Joaquin, I agree that lessons learned would be helpful. As someone who came to the project at the very end, I don't feel entitled to point out things that should have been done differently. As a member of the team that made the decision to pause development, however, I would be happy to help establish criteria that projects need to meet (as a minimum) in order to see continued effort. Given my limited bandwidth, this is not something I can promise anytime soon and I encourage others to take a first stab. -J On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:23 PM, Matthew Flaschen mflasc...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 06/02/2015 06:00 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez wrote: Now there's a lot of skepticism towards the idea in any of its forms :( I still think micro-contributions are an important future direction (whether or not WikiGrok is re-activated). Given how successful the metrics were from WikiGrok, it's hard to see why there should be skepticism about the idea of micro-contributions. Matt Flaschen ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on
On 06/02/2015 06:00 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez wrote: Now there's a lot of skepticism towards the idea in any of its forms :( I still think micro-contributions are an important future direction (whether or not WikiGrok is re-activated). Given how successful the metrics were from WikiGrok, it's hard to see why there should be skepticism about the idea of micro-contributions. Matt Flaschen ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Re: [WikimediaMobile] mobile wikipedia with service worker
I'm really excited about service worker, but it's going to be some time until its available broadly. It's one of the missing pieces for the web browsers to be great. Real background tasks, low level control of networking requests, etc. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Okay if I loop in Jeff on the thread? I bet he'd love to talk with engineers about this stuff! -Adam On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: Great video, thanks for sharing! ...the javascript then goes to the Wikipedia API to get the data—*plus a few alterations*. Someone should tell him about Parsoid! Too bad ServiceWorker isn't really supported on mobile https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWorker_API#Browser_compatibility (only Chrome Mobile 40). We could always provide our own polyfill in the native apps while adoption ramps up. On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com wrote: Jake Archibald did some playing around using wikipedia mobile as an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5_6yHixpsQ https://github.com/jakearchibald/offline-wikipedia DJ ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l -- EN Wikipedia user page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Brian.gerstle IRC: bgerstle ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
Re: [WikimediaMobile] [FYI] Popular mobile phone in Ghana
What work is being done to understand the design needs of those markets? On 2 June 2015 at 01:57, Gilles Dubuc gil...@wikimedia.org wrote: The story behind that phone is cool, but I think the important part is the guy's analysis. This phone is becoming popular because it solves a couple of practical issues specific to parts of the African market at the moment. However should someone design a smartphone specifically for that market, focusing on battery life, I'm sure that these power bank phones would disappear. Thus we probably shouldn't spend energy making something specifically for a phone like that, whose popularity might drop as fast as it rose when a better solution to those problems appears. If we happen to have something that works on that phone and get it on there, great. But spending too much energy on its might be a little futile, as it might not stick around for very long. IMHO if we make a light app that can work with patchy network, consumes very little power and works on underpowered phones, basically the least common denominator, it might find its uses in those places. What I'm quite unsure, however, is whether the UX and the content we'd deliver would be interesting to people in that market. We shouldn't let the engineering cool factor of making a light app be the starting point (it's very tempting!), the users should be. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:36 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: As long as the app works on it unlike Whatsapp and Facebook.. :) I do think it would be interesting to spend a quarter exploring a new market to understand how the changes we make can impact our presence in places other than the tried and tested USA/Europe etc... On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 2:47 AM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: Le 29/05/2015 04:43, Adam Baso a écrit : Sharing to mobile-l On Thursday, May 28, 2015, Rachel diCerbo rdic...@wikimedia.org mailto:rdic...@wikimedia.org wrote: Not certain if you guys are aware of this: https://medium.com/product-notes/the-mystery-of-the-power-bank-phone-taking-over-accra-344adbb56919 ` What a great phone! Would be nice to have the Wikipedia app preinstalled as well. If it is not powerfull enough, the Wikipedia lite app that has been showcased during the Lyon hackathon would be a good candidate. -- Antoine hashar Musso ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l
