Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

2015-12-09 Thread Paul Arzelier
So, as I said previously, after one year of development, the WikiJourney app, made in order to promote free tourism, is out! Okay, it's still a little bit buggy, but that's why we need it tested over different devices... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wikijourney.wikijourney

[WikimediaMobile] BBC News: "How mobile tech is improving global disaster relief"

2015-12-09 Thread Pine W
News article: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34715962 I hear about Humanitarian OSM with some frequency. And when the ebola scare was in full swing, Wikipedians (including those in WikiProject Medicine) were working to get accurate information published about the disease in multiple languages. I

[WikimediaMobile] Reading department planning for next quarter

2015-12-09 Thread Moushira Elamrawy
Hello Everyone, Hope you are enjoying the approach of the end of the year. In the last 3 months the reading team has worked on a process for open strategy planning [0], in order to define priorities, and align tests and products that the team works on, with broader movement goals. Given the stra

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

2015-12-09 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Hi Paul, Awesome job! I'll install it later and try it out! because we just suceeded in integrating OAuth (which is quite a success, because OAuth implementation was a nightmare...). Do you have a blog post or page where you've detailed the process and what was so bad about it? If not,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

2015-12-09 Thread Luis Villa
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Volker Eckl wrote: > Google will give an introduction on AMP at SFHTML5 Meetup on 23 Oct: > http://www.meetup.com/de/sfhtml5/events/219966898/ > > I'm in. > FWIW, Google appears to be serious about this: http://searchengineland.com/google-amp-coming-rank-fast-23

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

2015-12-09 Thread Jon Katz
Thanks, Luis! A search for Barack Obama surfaces a news carousel of AMPed articles that push us down significantly (see link below on a mobile device). Greater web speeds on mobile overall are a good thing for internet users and put pressure on us to move fast or be punished. Since I know nothin

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

2015-12-09 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Luis Villa, 09/12/2015 21:41: FWIW, Google appears to be serious about this: http://searchengineland.com/google-amp-coming-rank-fast-238046 How does that different from their long-standing habit of sending Google search mobile users to Google caches or other stripped down versions of websites

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.1.136-beta-2015-12-09)

2015-12-09 Thread Stephen Niedzielski
The Android team[0] is happy to announce a new Wikipedia Android app beta release, v2.1.136-beta-2015-12-09[1]. This update fixes a few crashes and bugs[2] found in the previous Beta and Production versions of the app, with the goal of making the app as stable as possible, in time for the holiday s

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

2015-12-09 Thread Jon Katz
Excellent, Paul! - thanks for the link - I'll try the beta app and give feedback - as far as Gather goes, we will be starting to implement it in the Android app starting in January, so hopefully lessons learned there will apply to you as well (and vice verse) On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

2015-12-09 Thread Pine W
Just wondering, is there a connection between WikiJourney and WikiVoyage? (If nothing else, the similarities in names make me wonder if a trademark review is needed) Cheers, Pine On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > Excellent, Paul! > >- thanks for the link - I'll try the beta

Re: [WikimediaMobile] BBC News: "How mobile tech is improving global disaster relief"

2015-12-09 Thread Pine W
That would be interesting. I'm not sure who to ask about this. Oliver, perhaps you know, is it possible for WMF to publicize article pageviews by country on a weekly basis? I believe that there's also work happening on getting an approximate number of unique users per country. Will there be per-co

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading department planning for next quarter

2015-12-09 Thread Pine W
Hi Moushira, Thank you for these updates. It's great to see a team pushing out their goals for the next quarter for public review. Two questions: 1. How are budgets / resourcing aligned with the tasks shown here? 2. Are there also improvements planned for mobile web and mobile app *editing* for