Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app now requires "run at startup" permission?

2016-02-19 Thread Legoktm
Hi, On 02/19/2016 09:59 AM, Dmitry Brant wrote: > Note that we don't require this permission in the production or beta > versions of the app on Google Play, and it wasn't intentional to require > the permission in the f-droid variant (since f-droid doesn't use Google > Play). Since Stephen's patch

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Similar articles feature performance in CirrusSearch for apps and mobile web

2016-02-19 Thread Jon Katz
Great explanation. Thanks, Dan! On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > On 19 February 2016 at 17:13, Jon Katz wrote: >> >> Thanks, Erik! This is very helpful. What do you mean by 'back testing'? >> >> > > For search, there's a few different approaches for quantitative testing >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Similar articles feature performance in CirrusSearch for apps and mobile web

2016-02-19 Thread Dan Garry
On 19 February 2016 at 17:13, Jon Katz wrote: > > Thanks, Erik! This is very helpful. What do you mean by 'back testing'? > For search, there's a few different approaches for quantitative testing that are less difficult than A/B testing in terms of development overhead, data analysis and coordi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Similar articles feature performance in CirrusSearch for apps and mobile web

2016-02-19 Thread Jon Katz
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Erik Bernhardson < ebernhard...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Back testing thousands of user queries and comparing them to user click > through or satisfaction (clickthrough + dwell) Thanks, Erik! This is very helpful. What do you mean by 'back testing'? Also, even

[WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Mobile v5 for iOS - Last chance to beta test...

2016-02-19 Thread Joshua Minor
Hello mobile wikimedians, In late December the Foundation's iOS team announced[1] a public beta of a major overhaul[2] of the iOS Wikipedia app. Today we delivered what we hope will be a final beta before launch, and are primarily in bug fix and visual touches mode. If you would like to participa

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the two months until February 7, 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Orsolya Gyenes
Thanx a lot, PDF works fine! *~Orsolya* 2016-02-19 20:05 GMT+01:00 Tilman Bayer : > Hi Orsolya, > > a PDF copy is at > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Readership_metrics_for_the_two_months_until_February_7,_2016.pdf > (previous reports and various charts are also available at > https://c

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the two months until February 7, 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Tilman Bayer
Hi Orsolya, a PDF copy is at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Readership_metrics_for_the_two_months_until_February_7,_2016.pdf (previous reports and various charts are also available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_readership_metrics_reports ) And of course these m

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the two months until February 7, 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Orsolya Gyenes
Dear Tilman, Can you provide a link for this summary below? Thank you, *~Orsolya* 2016-02-18 23:37 GMT+01:00 Tilman Bayer : > Hi all, > > this resumes the usual look at our most important readership metrics. > Among other things, this time we observe the annual Christmas slump in > pageviews,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app now requires "run at startup" permission?

2016-02-19 Thread Dmitry Brant
To give some more clarity to this: The app is built in such a way as to allow certain mobile manufacturers to have our app pre-loaded on their devices. For analytics purposes, we'd like to know how much traffic comes from these preloads. The way that we do this is by including a custom identifier s

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app now requires "run at startup" permission?

2016-02-19 Thread Stephen Niedzielski
I've opened a Phab for this issue[0]. [0] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127479 On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Bernd Sitzmann wrote: > Yes, for F-Droid the custom flavor is used. We should consider making a > dedicated flavor for F-Droid to avoid this permission request there. > > Regard

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app now requires "run at startup" permission?

2016-02-19 Thread Bernd Sitzmann
Yes, for F-Droid the custom flavor is used. We should consider making a dedicated flavor for F-Droid to avoid this permission request there. Regards, Bernd On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 4:11 AM, Florian Schmidt < florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de> wrote: > Hi Legoktm, > > as far as I know the permiss

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the two months until February 7, 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Oliver Keyes, 19/02/2016 13:51: a lot of prominent countries were very close to the 50% switchover, including (interestingly) Italy. I compiled some links at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:The_sudden_decline_of_Italian_Wikipedia#Scratchpad on the likely social reasons. Pew researc

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the two months until February 7, 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Oliver Keyes
Some of it, I suspect, is inevitable. I studied this a while back and a lot of prominent countries were very close to the 50% switchover, including (interestingly) Italy. On 19 February 2016 at 06:51, Antoine Musso wrote: > Le 18/02/2016 23:37, Tilman Bayer a écrit : >> Context (last three months

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the two months until February 7, 2016

2016-02-19 Thread Antoine Musso
Le 18/02/2016 23:37, Tilman Bayer a écrit : > Context (last three months): > > Like for the Android app, there was a notable bump around Christmas, but > also an even larger spike on January 14 - the reason is not clear to us. Hello, I would suspect it is related to Wikipedia turning 15 years ol

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app now requires "run at startup" permission?

2016-02-19 Thread Florian Schmidt
Hi Legoktm, as far as I know the permission is in the custom build flavor only (it was moved from the main build channel to it in commit[1]). I'm not sure, what flavor is used for fdroid, it's using the custom channel, it get's the permission (added in [2]). [1] https://github.com/wikimedia/a