[WikimediaMobile] Re: [Commons-l] Re: Commons app - v5.0 release

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

Hi Gnangarra,

On 13/05/24 10:45, Gnangarra wrote:
 From some who uses the app regularly, has big thumbs, and needs reading 
glasses I'll appreciate the voice input feature, now it just has to 
recognise my Australian accent 藍  this should be interesting, and I'll 
apologize early on for any slips of the tongue.




Good to hear that you would find the voice input feature helpful. As to 
the australian accent being recognized, we just piggy back on the 
speech-to-text services that are available in your device. If you 
already use any speech-to-text service that recognizes your accent well, 
the same should work fine for app's voice input feature too.


If you notice any discrepancy, feel free to let us know :-)


Thank you and everyone thats working on it.



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[WikimediaMobile] Commons app - v5.0 release

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

Hi all,

Hope you have been well! We have just released v5.0.1 of the Commons
Android app to production. The update is now available on Play store [1]
and F-droid [2]. You could also build the app directly from our GitHub
repository [3].

If you've faced issues with your profile not working / contribution information
not being shown appropriately, sorry about that! We've fixed that in
this version
:-)

We've had yet another revamp of the Maps screens in this version. We replaced
Mapbox altogether with the osmdroid library. Key elements like pin visualization
and user-centered display are still included in this redesign. We did
this to guard
against possible misuse of the Mapbox token and, more crucially, to keep the app
from becoming dependent on a service that charges for usage but offers
a free tier.

As a consequence, you may observe the Nearby and other Map screens not being
as snappy as they used to. We've noticed this and are actively
discussing on ways
to improve the same[4]. Feel free to chime in with your thoughts.

Talking about improvements to the app, this year Kanahia will be contributing to
the app during Google Summer of Code 2024! His project will focus on improving
upload queue management [5]. He will be mentored by Nicolas and Ritika.

Other significant changes:

- Add the ability to export locations of nearby missing pictures in GPX and KML
  formats. This allows you to browse the locations with desired radius
for offline
  use in your favourite map apps like OsmAnd or Maps.ME

- Added a compass arrow in the Nearby banner shown in the "Contributions" screen
  to guide you towards the nearest item, thus providing the missing
directional cues.
  The arrow dynamically adjusts based on device rotation, aligning
with the calculated
  bearing towards the target location. Further, the distance and
direction are updated as
  you move.

- Implemented voice input feature for caption and description fields,
enabling you
  to dictate text directly into these fields.

- Improved various flows in the app to redirect you to the login page
and display a
  persistent message if your session becomes invalid due to a password change.

- Revamped initial upload screen layout and the description edit
screen layout for
  enhanced user experience and ensuring better symmetry in the design.

These are only a small chunk of all the changes that were part of this
release. Checkout
our release notes [3] for a more detailed set of changes since the
last announcement.

As always, feel free to reach our to us with your valuable feedback.
You could share
feedback in our talk page [6] / by writing an e-mail to
commons-app-andr...@googlegroups.com / via our issue tracker [7].

[[ References ]]

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
  (staged rollout has been initiated. It should be available in few days)
[2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.free.nrw.commons
[3]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/releases/tag/v5.0.0
[4]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/5529
[5]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360265
[6]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Mobile_app
[7]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues

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[WikimediaMobile] Commons app - v4.2 release

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

Hi all,

Hope you have been well! We have just released v4.2 of the Commons 
Android app to production. The update is now available on Play store [1] 
and F-droid [2]. You could also build the app directly from our GitHub 
repository [3].


An important thing we wanted to communicate. We've changed the Mapbox 
API key used by the app in this release (v4.2.1) due to some unforeseen 
circumstances. We also had to revoke the old API key that is being used 
by the older version of the app (< v4.2.1).


You might face issues with accessing maps in those versions of the app 
such as the Nearby screen appearing blank etc. We request your to kindly 
upgrade to v4.2.1 in order to continue using the features for which 
rendering a map is necessary. Other features should work fine. We regret 
the inconvenience that this may cause. Feel free to open an issue in our 
issue tracker [4] for any assistance. We'll be glad to help.


This release also includes the done by Ritika Pahwa during GSoC 2023. 
This includes changes done to improve the reliability of the failed, 
stuck uploads and changes to prevent location metadata loss for uploads 
done via in the app.


In case you've been facing issues with the uploads, do give the latest 
version a try. It should be better than before. Feel free to reach out 
to us with any feedback you may have. It would be very helpful.


Other significant changes:

- Dark mode colour improvements

- Uploading via the in-app camera has been fixed and should work
  normally.

- Provide the ability to edit an image to losslessly rotate it while
  uploading.

- Category search now shows exact matches without any discrepancies

- We've switched to using MapLibre instead of Mapbox and thereby
  disabled telemetry sent to Mapbox. We're also actively exploring
  alternatives to Mapbox so that we could completely move away from it.
  Check out the related issue [5] for information regarding the same.

- Fix some redundant crash issues

Checkout our changelog [6] for a more detailed set of changes since the 
last announcement.


[[ References ]]

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons
[2]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.free.nrw.commons
[3]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/releases/tag/v4.2.1
[4]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues
[5]: https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/issues/5352
[6]: 
https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md



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[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] App's Office Hour - 2023

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

Cross posting the announcement about office hour for the mobile apps. Find more 
details below.




 Original Message 
From: Amal Ramadan 
Sent: 7 March 2023 2:52:03 pm IST
To: wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] App's Office Hour - 2023

Hey all,

I would like to invite you to the first office hour for the mobile apps
team in 2023.

It will take place on the 24th of March at 5 pm UTC.
You can check your zone’s exact time through this zone stamp
.

The host will be Jazmin Tanner, Sr. Product Manager of the apps team, with
a number of our software engineers.
You can join at the mentioned time through this link:
https://meet.google.com/aww-miri-kik.
And the meeting will be recorded.

You can add your questions and thoughts about Wikipedia’s mobile apps here
,
and the last date to add your input will be on the 20th of march at 12:00
UTC; feel free to spread the word about the office hour to your communities.

We will be waiting for you all!

Respectfully,
*Amal Ramadan* (She\Her)
Sr. Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation 

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[WikimediaMobile] Re: generic MediaWiki editing app?

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 13:28, Željko Blaće  wrote:
>
> Hi!
> Does Anyone know of a generic MediaWiki editing app?
> (one that could be used by any MediaWiki instance)
> Was there any effort in that direction at any point?
>

There's this phabricator ticket about a generic Mediawiki app. It
it has since been closed as it seems like it would be a non-trivial task
to change the Wikipedia app in order to make it work with generic
MediaWiki instances.

Phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165495


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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Forking Wikipedia for Wiktionary mobile app?

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

On 23-07-2020 13:15, Stephane Coillet-Matillon wrote:
> 
> This might not entirely answer your question, but FYI the Kiwix team has
> been actively working on making a wiktionary app (offline). There are
> some extra hurdles to deal with, but I’ve got good hopes we will be able
> to come up with a first MVP by the end of this year.
>

That's nice.

If someone wants something similar (offline) right now, there's Aard2
which can be used to browse many sites, including Wiktionary, offline.

Links
===
Project page: http://aarddict.org/
GitHub page: https://github.com/itkach/aard2-android
Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=itkach.aard2
Dictionaries: https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki/Dictionaries

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Rights needed to edit semi-protected pages on Wikipedia

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

+Cc: mobile-l

On 1 June 2020 15:46:52 GMT+05:30, Kaartic Sivaraam 
 wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>On 1 June 2020 05:08:53 GMT+05:30, Tito Dutta 
>wrote:
>>
>>Using the Wikipedia Android application, do I need any other right to
>>edit
>>semi-protected pages?
>
>You don't need any special rights for editing semi-protected pages
>using the Android app, AFAIK. Just the usual rights.
>
>Is there any reason you're wondering if extra rights are needed to edit
>semi-protected pages?

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-ambassadors] Wikipedia for Android app flows diagram

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

On Tuesday 06 March 2018 11:33 PM, Adam Baso wrote:
> Hi mobile-l and wikitech-ambassadors friends!
> 
> Rita shared with colleagues a cool diagram of the Wikipedia for Android app
> flows, and we thought you may be interested to see it as well.

Thanks! It was interesting and useful, indeed. Some random corrections I
noticed,

- I noticed small typos in the 8th and 15th info boxes found in the left.

- There's a hanging "Else if..." in the "My lists" subsection of the
"Reading lists" section. There's also a spooky clapperboard in one of
the images in the section.

- An image description overlaps an image in the "Reading list"
subsection of the "Reading lists" section.

One last note regarding the file itself: It would have been nice if the
flows were splitted across different pages in the PDF file. The PDF
readers I used couldn't handle the one very large page containing all
the flows. One of them even distorted the page when I zoomed. (I had to
extract the image in the page and view it in an image viewer ;-) )


Thanks,
Kaartic

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New Android production release

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On Thursday 08 February 2018 09:50 PM, Dmitry Brant wrote:
> 
> We're also introducing the idea of a "default" reading list, created
> automatically, allowing you to save articles with fewer taps, while
> retaining the option to create and organize other lists as before.
> 

I guess the term "Default" would be misleading here. It might lead the
reader into believing that the articles would be added to the new
"default" reading list when the user taps on the "Add to reading list"
icon without asking him for confirmation. But that's not the case. It
just saves him from having to create a new reading list to start adding
articles.

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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live
so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which
case, you fail by default.”

  - J. K. Rowling


WIKIPEDIA: DID YOU KNOW?

Only 33% of internet users in India have heard of Wikipedia !!

* What do you think could be the reason behind this?

* What are ways in which the awareness about Wikipedia in India and
other countries be increased ?

Reference:

* Give your ideas for increasing the awareness of Wikipedia in India and
in other countries and get a Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to
bring your idea to life.

  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire

* Know more about the awareness problem of Wikipedia

  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Awareness

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readers Monthly update for December 2017

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

On Monday 08 January 2018 08:50 PM, Chris Koerner wrote:
> * Initial bugs with download to PDF button on mobile now resolved
>
Just to be sure, I hope you are not referring to T182059 which has not
been resolved yet.

[not referencing the related tasks/pages seems to have it's own issues ;-)]


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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Foundation is hiring an Android App PM

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> The official Wikimedia app, downloaded by millions, and rated 4.4 
Isn't it the "Wikipedia" app or am I mistaken?

BTW, I guess there's a similar correction required for the subject.

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading monthly update for May 2017

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On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 18:48 +, Jon Robson wrote:
> 
> Yes sadly this is a known problem and relates to the fact we lazy
> load images. You can follow what we discussed and what our plans are
> going forward here:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T162414 
> 
> The short of it is:
> * There is no way to asynchronously load images when a print is
> detected
> * We filed a bug upstream against the HTML standard:
> https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2532#issuecomment-294021096
> * It looks like the only way to avoid this problem in the mean time
> is to provide a non-browser print button.
> 
In case '[EPIC] Promote usage of "print->pdf" an article on mobile'[1]
isn't planned to be deployed sometime soon how about considering some
kind of temporary and helpful "quick fix"?

It could be something like filling the blank spaces of unloaded images
with some helpful text that act as links. The helpful text might be
something like, "Click here to see  image", for example. The
user could be taken to taken to the location of the image file when he
taps the text. I'm suggesting this believing that it would be possible
to identify the unloaded images.

I guess this doesn't require much work and could be a "quick fix". This
is not required if [1] is being planned to be deployed "soon".

[1] : https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163472

> > 2. Rendering links would be helpful but it seems to clutter up the
> > reading experience of printed articles which have a lot of links in
> > them (e.g. God). It would be better if some kind of alternative was
> > chosen to highlight links such that they don't distract the user
> > from
> > their main motive (reading).
> 
> I'll defer to Nirzar on this one!
> > > 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 :)
> > >
> > 

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading monthly update for May 2017

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> On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 18:21:10, Jon Robson 
> wrote:
> 
> It's deployed!

Good to hear that! I tried to print a page using my mobile and it
looked great! Great work people. It would be better if the following
were considered,

1. Currently it seems that the images found in the unexpanded sections
aren't rendered in the PDF file. As a result a blank space is found in
their place and the image description seems to be describing a blank
space!! Possible solutions are,

i) Trying to render all images found in a page regardless of whether
the sections are expanded or not

ii) Don't print the unexpanded sections

I would love to see (i) being chosen as a solution. :)

2. Rendering links would be helpful but it seems to clutter up the
reading experience of printed articles which have a lot of links in
them (e.g. God). It would be better if some kind of alternative was
chosen to highlight links such that they don't distract the user from
their main motive (reading).

> 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 :)
> 

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading monthly update for May 2017

[Kaartic Sivaraam]

Sorry, the "smart" client cluttered up the formatting. Here's a better
one,

> == 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 :)

> === 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!

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Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading monthly update for May 2017

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 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 :)

=== 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!

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