Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Stripping content inside brackets from the first sentence of articles

2019-10-06 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
A blast from the past! Only now I noticed that text in brackets is back now. I may have missed it, but I don't remember that this was announced anywhere. I'm curious, what was the thinking behind restoring it? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We

[WikimediaMobile] editing smaller headings

2016-10-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I've been asked by a Hebrew Wikipedia editor: Why is it only possible to have the edit button at the top headings (==), but not smaller headings (===, etc.)? This should be in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Android_FAQ#Editing :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲר

[WikimediaMobile] statistics of mobile editing by geolocation

2015-08-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Do we have statistics about where people are mobile-editing Wikimedia projects from? Are there countries where people read Wikimedia projects on mobile devices a lot, but edit little or not at all? Also, is editing enabled through Wikipedia Zero? I heard conflicting reports about it. -- Ami

[WikimediaMobile] screen resolution statistics

2015-08-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Do we have statistics about the screen resolution that people are using when they are browsing Wikipedia from mobile devices? And separately, statistics about the screen resolution that people are using when they are *editing* Wikipedia from a mobile device? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִיש

[WikimediaMobile] How long are mobile edits?

2015-08-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Did anybody try to count how long are mobile edits? How many characters do people actually type when they edit wiki pages through mobile web and mobile apps? Or, more precisely, how many meaningful keystrokes? A simplistic way would be to measure the number of added characters, but that's n

Re: [WikimediaMobile] whitelist for UI translation

2015-08-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
erico Leva (Nemo) : > Amir E. Aharoni, 09/08/2015 09:06: > >> Can anybody please remind me why do we have a whitelist for languages >> into which the Wikipedia apps can be translated? >> > > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38264 is still open but not clear why.

[WikimediaMobile] whitelist for UI translation

2015-08-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Can anybody please remind me why do we have a whitelist for languages into which the Wikipedia apps can be translated? Is it because Android and iOS only support certain locales at the OS level and it's impossible to customize them? Is there any conceivable way to avoid this and open up the

[WikimediaMobile] data about anonymous mobile web editing

2015-07-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I remember that when the Italian Wikipedia allowed mobile anonymous editing, there were statistics that showed that it didn't increase vandalism or bad edits. Based on that it was enabled in other sites. Are there published up-to-date statistics about this? Reverts of anonymous mobile web edit

Re: [WikimediaMobile] In-app editing / talk pages support

2015-07-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
said, that is a pretty nice layout on those links you listed! > > -Adam > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > No, I'm not sure what does mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop do for Flow. > > I was referring to

Re: [WikimediaMobile] In-app editing / talk pages support

2015-07-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‬ 2015-07-22 11:58 GMT-05:00 Adam Baso : > Amir, are you referring to use of the inbuilt "desktop" mode of Flow, such > as > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MediaWiki?mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop > ? > > -Adam > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Amir E. Ahar

Re: [WikimediaMobile] In-app editing / talk pages support

2015-07-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
It's probably a dilettante-ish comment, but for a while already Flow has been working quite well on mobile web, incomparably better than the old talk pages, and it could be Flow's biggest "selling point". My intuition tells me that work to support talk pages on mobile should focus more on Flow and

[WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero editing

2015-05-04 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Is Wikipedia Zero only for reading, or for editing, too? I noticed this Twitter conversation today: https://twitter.com/thornet/status/594837690778034176 It says that it's only for reading. If it's true, is there a reason for this? I don't know about images and videos, but I imagine that t

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

2015-04-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> An Android Commons mobile app is probably the mandatory catalisator for hundreds of millions of people to participate to Commons. If you have only 300 unique users a month with an official Commons app, IMO the only thing it tells you is: the app is not good enough! Muggles (no offense, honestly)

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile Newsletter?

2015-04-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Who is the target audience? If I understand correctly, the target audience for the weekly Tech news and the monthly VE news is experienced active editing Wikipedians (I don't know if it was ever designated, but I am making an educated guess of the actual practice). But what is it for the mobile n

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

2015-04-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
ty of sharing directly to Commons *in the Wikipedia app*? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-04-15 11:45 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > There are few things I hate more than

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

2015-04-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
There are few things I hate more than dealing with images on computers. Even a simple thing like emailing a screenshot or adding a photo to a blogpost OR A WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Gather - owner

2015-03-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
SpecialGatherLists.php: . Html::element( 'span', >>> array(), wfMessage( 'gather-lists-collection-owner' ) ) >>> So I'm guessing this is at >>> https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:GatherLists - the first column >>> shows as "Ow

[WikimediaMobile] Gather - owner

2015-03-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I am translating Gather, and I feel very uncomfortable about the term "Owner". It's challenging to translate, because in the languages I care about - Hebrew and Russian - it requires gender. Now gender can be added without too much technical effort, but there's still the general feeling of di

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Encouraging Wikipedia/Commons contributions (was: Wikidata descriptions)

2015-03-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
[ Resending - the previous email had too many silly syntax mistakes. Am I a Wikipedian or not? Sorry about the spam :) ] > We've considered such problems at great length, and so far never actually managed to succeed at drawing people in to editing on mobile devices. I'd really love to know more d

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Encouraging Wikipedia/Commons contributions (was: Wikidata descriptions)

2015-03-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> We've considered such problems at great length, and so far never actually managed to succeed at drawing people in to editing on mobile devices. I'd really love to know more details about this. Most of all: Did you consider consider getting new people to contribute on mobile, or did you consider

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Deploying Gather to enwiki on Monday

2015-03-26 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Is there a plan to launch it in other languages? I committed a patch that defines it as an extension used by Wikimedia in translatewiki,[1] but I'll be even happier to know for sure that there is a plan to launch it not only for English. [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/199917/ -- Amir El

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikidata description editing prototype

2015-03-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Nice! I would probably try to think a bit more about the message that explains what is the problem: there's no description, and there should be one. But go figure, maybe it's just me looking for too many explanation. It would be nicer to upload videos to a site that doesn't require Flash and does

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Stripping content inside brackets from the first sentence of articles

2015-03-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
A few notes: 1. Will it be done only in English or also in other languages? In particular, what about languages that don't use the '(' and ')' characters, such as Chinese? 2. Can this be made optional for people who really want to see it? (I know it sounds like xkcd 1172, but still.) 3. A counte

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readability of the first sentence on Wikipedia articles

2015-03-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I'll state a bunch of things that are obvious to me, but should probably be written down in some way... IPA, other names, and names in other languages indeed make reading harder. They are there because of a tradition. There's a tradition of printing encyclopedia articles like this (that's also whe

[WikimediaMobile] beta testing win

2015-03-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Just wanted to say how happy I am that the mobile team releases beta versions of the iOS app! Thanks to this bugs like https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90032 can be reported and fixed. It's the whole point of beta testing, but I like saying it out loud and not taking positive things for gr

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia Mobile] [Web] [Spike] Translating WikiGrok

2015-02-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2015-02-23 23:12 GMT+02:00 Bahodir Mansurov : > I had a talk with Amir and we came to a conclusion that WikiGrok is more > or less translatable. The key is to write well defined qqq statements. > > *1. "Do any of these tags apply to ?" where the blank can be anything, > person, place, thing, e

[WikimediaMobile] interlanguage links not updated on the mobile site

2015-02-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
[ Crossposting to mobile and wikidata lists. Sorry about the inconvenience. You may want to use "Reply to all". ] Hi, The articles about the musician Eviatar Banai in Hebrew and English Wikipedias exist fr years. On 2015-02-04 I created one in Catalan. Today I created one in Russian. If I look

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Hooking into Google Now's Cards

2015-02-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
+1 to show Wikipedia. Articles to read near your location is an obvious and easy first step, although the same card probably shouldn't be shown twice, and in places with a lot of landmarks not too many should be shown at once. Suggesting to upload missing images is something that we've been dream

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WikiGrok test in stable now live

2014-12-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Where is the code for that? I'm curious about how the strings are shown. I presume that they aren't localizable, but I'd love to start thinking about localzing them. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Analysis of the hamburger icon

2014-12-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The similarity in the numbers is indeed striking, but I don't think that it says much about the perception of the hamburger icon. I suspect that for most readers the language button is more useful than *any* of the actions in the hamburger menu - home, random, nearby, watchlist, settings, log in. T

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] How good is our search? Here's some data!

2014-12-03 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thanks. This is not directly related, but some time I'd love to see data about interlanguage links tapping on all media - iOS, Android, MobileFrontend. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Chinese Wikipedia

2014-11-24 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-11-24 2:20 GMT+02:00 Jon Robson : > * They struggled with the captcha when registering (surprise > surprise). It's English words not Chinese words. I notice everyone has > WiFi passwords here that are numbers. It would be interesting to > explore captchas that involve numbers if that is at all

Re: [WikimediaMobile] translatable messages in betas

2014-11-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
slatewiki. > > On Android, you'd do the above by pulling master, applying the unmerged > patch, building an APK, and mailing it around privately. > Unfortunately, this is simply not possible on iOS. > > We will make sure that we try to keep things synchronised, to the be

Re: [WikimediaMobile] availability of apps beta installation instructions

2014-11-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hurd : > The signup link for the iOS app: > > http://flig.ht/1dhqz8j > > > > > On Nov 15, 2014, at 11:15 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < > amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am testing the beta apps for both Android and iOS. If I recall > correctly,

[WikimediaMobile] availability of apps beta installation instructions

2014-11-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I am testing the beta apps for both Android and iOS. If I recall correctly, I got the installation instruction for them by email. I wanted to suggest testing them to somebody, but I couldn't find convenient instructions for doing this. I'd expect to find them somewhere on https://www.mediawik

Re: [WikimediaMobile] translatable messages in betas

2014-11-15 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
r Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-10-29 9:41 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > Hi, > > A friendly reminder: please add all new translatable messages to the > source and comm

Re: [WikimediaMobile] moar section edit icons

2014-11-03 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
t > area content less overwhelming) it may be a little confusing if you > click an h2 edit link but cannot edit the h3s inside it. > > I've cc'ed the design mailing list. > > [1] > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/02/21/finger-friendly-design-ideal-mobile-touchscre

[WikimediaMobile] moar section edit icons

2014-11-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Is there a reason why section edit icons only appear at s in MobileFrontend? When editing from my phone, I'd love to have them on all sections, but maybe I'm missing something. ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wik

[WikimediaMobile] translatable messages in betas

2014-10-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, A friendly reminder: please add all new translatable messages to the source and commit them to Gerrit as early as possible, so that translators will get a chance to translate them before betas are released. In the world or Wikimedia / translatewiki localization we strongly believe that releas

[WikimediaMobile] a tip about qqq: linking to other messages

2014-10-29 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi! A little tip about writing message documentation ("qqq"): When you are writing this documentation for Android and iOS apps, you can easily link to other messages from qqq by using the MediaWiki template {{msg-wikimedia}}. The documentation is conveniently shown to translators at translatewiki.

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Feedback of iOS WIkipedia 4.0.3 by Josve05a

2014-09-23 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
‬ 2014-09-23 21:55 GMT+03:00 Jonatan Svensson Glad : > I'm using an Apple iPad mini (1st gen), on iOS 8.0 (12A365). > > >- There is a lot of "blank"/whitespace at the bottom of every page. > > I see a lot of unnecessary whitespace on iPod touch as well. iOS 8, app v4.0.3.

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Android app beta release

2014-09-18 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Very nice update! The tip about TOC works well in RTL. I translated it, so I knew that you thought about, but it was great to see it in action. Thank you! Is "similar articles" based on any research about what is clear to users? These are articles with similar names, but the content can be complet

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia App (iOS) beta tester numbers and feedback

2014-09-17 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
> Great update, > Can i translate the app into arabic language ? > Feras Younis Qrinawi He-he, a couple of years ago I was the crazy guy who read much of the copious feedback about the old apps. I received several questions like this one, and I used it as an opportunity to acquire several new tran

[WikimediaMobile] feedback about random

2014-09-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
[Was: iOS app feedback (via testflight)‏] When I first saw the "Random article" in Wikipedia bask in 2004 or so, I immediately though - "Right, they probably added because they wanted it to look like an old-school paper encyclopedia that you can open randomly." I guess that it's not clear to all

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Mobile web] Important: putting the mobile web upload features on ice

2014-09-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
As a simple user I can only say that I understand the situation and hope that it will come to life to some time in a future incarnation. I really miss a way to upload missing photos from the phone that would be as easy as posting a photo to Twitter. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲר

[WikimediaMobile] watchlist removal on mobile web

2014-08-26 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, A user in the Hebrew Wikipedia pointed out to me that it's uncomfortable to her that after removing a page from the watchlist it is still displayed there. It is gone after refreshing the watchlist, but she says that for her it would make more sense if it disappeared immediately. This is a des

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New Wikipedia Android app production release

2014-08-14 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-08-14 21:20 GMT+03:00 Vibha Bamba : > Hi Pine, > > We used the today icon to see how that plays out, since that page > represents featured content for the day and news. > More precisely, it represents these things in the English Wikipedia, as well as Hebrew, Russian, Catalan and a few other

[WikimediaMobile] Main page - good practices, future plans

2014-08-07 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, The Hebrew Wikipedia community is questioning the current design of the Mobile main page, and this raises some questions about the mobile main page design for all languages. I don't have a strong opinion myself, but the current tendency is to show all the boxes rather than just a few, as it i

[WikimediaMobile] VisualEditor in the mobile Quora app

2014-07-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
There's a curious thing about the latest version of the Quora mobile app. The newest update is a major redesign. Earlier it was possible to post only in plain text from mobile devices and to edit existing posts if they had only plain text. Now it's possible to post and to edit existing posts in ri

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Take-home messages from user testing

2014-06-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
*> 4) When people are pointed to the canned edit summaries dialogue on iOS, they use it fluidly.* > It was a big hit with people and they understood it instantly. I'm really glad to hear a confirmation of this. > This was such a success that I think we should look at getting it onto Android furth

[WikimediaMobile] updating the page about apps at translatewiki.net

2014-04-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, The page about translating the apps at translatewiki.net is quite outdated: https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Translating:WikipediaMobile It still mentions PhoneGap. It would be nice if anybody could update them with particular tips about translating for Android and iOS. Thanks! -- Amir Elish

Re: [WikimediaMobile] #footer-places-terms-use

2014-03-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
ot;terms of use" as part of the message. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-03-28 18:08 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni : > Hi, > > I was translating the recently

[WikimediaMobile] #footer-places-terms-use

2014-03-28 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I was translating the recently added licensing messages: Mobile-frontend-editor-licensing-with-terms Mobile-frontend-photo-licensing-with-terms I noticed that they have "link to license" as $1. I wondered how does it work exactly, because this may affect the translation and needs to be docume

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Musing about canned edit summaries

2014-03-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2014-03-11 1:00 GMT+02:00 Max Semenik : > On 11.03.2014, 1:32 Jon wrote: > > The interface showed various buttons that when clicked would populate > > the edit summary input. e.g. "Fixed typos/grammar" or "Added links") > > > > I wanted to discuss whether this is a good idea? > Russian Wikipedia

[WikimediaMobile] three-letter language codes - fixed!

2014-02-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, The old annoying bug that didn't allow proper usage of three-letter language codes in Android apps appears to be fixed. Or maybe not. Here's the link: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=49120 The relevant MediaWiki bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36264 T

Re: [WikimediaMobile] some surprising positive feedback

2014-02-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
02-10 11:04 GMT+02:00 Tomasz Finc : > Thanks Amir. What's his username ? Would love to keep in touch with him. > > --tomasz > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:12 AM, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Just wanted to bring some surprising positive feedback a

[WikimediaMobile] some surprising positive feedback

2014-02-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Just wanted to bring some surprising positive feedback about MobileFrontend from a Hebrew Wikipedia editor. He asked me why aren't his mobile edits marked with the mobile tag in the editing history. I did a bit of testing and couldn't reproduce the problem, so explained him how the tagging wor

[WikimediaMobile] mobile diff colors

2014-02-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, A Hebrew Wikipedia user complained that the mobile diff colors changed to dark green and dark pink, which she finds very inconvenient. What would be the right way to report that? Bugzilla? Some talk page about Mobile Feedback? [[mw:Talk:Mobile_design]] is empty, but it can be started. I pres

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia-mobile-copyrightwarning text

2014-02-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Steven, thanks for this reply. It is correct. I'll just add this: 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation is quite developer-oriented, but should be useful to everyone. 2. Don't be afraid of committing translations early. Some software projects wait until a late stage with publishing transl

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia-mobile-copyrightwarning text

2014-02-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thanks a lot for this answer, Luis. I'm glad that you plan to make a through rewording of the legal strings. When you get around to it, please ask Language Engineering - we'd love to help making not only readable, but easier to translate as well. בתאריך 30 בינו 2014 21:51, מאת "Luis Villa" : > >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia-mobile-copyrightwarning text

2014-01-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
om ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-01-27 Jon Robson > Hi Amir > Could you print the text of the message? I can't seem to find it in > MobileFrontend might be worth asking the legal mailing list? > Jon > > > On Mon, Jan 27,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia-mobile-copyrightwarning text

2014-01-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014-01-27 Amir E. Aharoni > Hi, > > IANAL, but I am a tad perplexed about the wording of the message > wikimedia-mobile-copyrightwarning. It says that it's an _agreement_ to the > terms of user and an _irrevocable agreement_ to the license. > > Is i

[WikimediaMobile] Wikimedia-mobile-copyrightwarning text

2014-01-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, IANAL, but I am a tad perplexed about the wording of the message wikimedia-mobile-copyrightwarning. It says that it's an _agreement_ to the terms of user and an _irrevocable agreement_ to the license. Is it OK that only one is irrevocable? If that is indeed the intention, then everything is

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MobileFrontend weekly report

2014-01-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Not me. I do read a lot of other things on this list. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2014/1/13 Yuvi Panda > does... anyone read these? > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 5:30 AM, wrot

Re: [WikimediaMobile] mobile-frontend-profile-heading-recent

2013-10-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2013 at 12:51 AM, Amir E. Aharoni > wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > What does the message mobile-frontend-profile-heading-recent refer to? > The > > qqq documentation doesn't make it so clear, and it doesn't seem to be > used > > anywhere. > > >

[WikimediaMobile] mobile-frontend-profile-heading-recent

2013-10-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hallo, What does the message mobile-frontend-profile-heading-recent refer to? The qqq documentation doesn't make it so clear, and it doesn't seem to be used anywhere. Thanks! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to liv

[WikimediaMobile] webfonts in mobile frontend

2013-09-27 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, So today I worked with Kaldari (thanks for the help!!) and committed a very simple module to enable webfonts support in MobileFrontend: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/86340/ https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/86337/ Review and any comments are very welcome, of course. The current impleme

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Mobile Feedback] Wikipedia mobile

2013-08-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
This is curious: Somebody is reporting that F-Secure reports the Wikipedia app as "infected". -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ‎-- Forwarded message --‎ Date: 2013/8/

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Mobile Feedback] [Ticket#2013070710003171] Ansicht mobile Geräte

2013-07-11 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
In case anybody missed it. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ‎-- Forwarded message --‎ From: Wikimedia Support Team ‎‎ Date: 2013/7/11 Subject: Re: [Mobile Feedback] [

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile editing data

2013-07-09 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Very interesting, thank you. Though the numbers are small, it makes me recall something that an Arab Twitter localizer told me once at Wikimania: Arabs hardly care about the Twitter *website*, but they use the Twitter SMS features and mobile apps very heavily, and for them that IS Twitter. Wikiped

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Is this thing on?

2013-04-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I read it, but I don't have a strong emotional connection to it. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2013/4/3 Yuvi Panda : > Do people read this list at all? it's been incredibly super l

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Mobile Feedback] Wikipedia

2012-10-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Is the Wikipedia app supposed to work on Archos 70b internet tablet with android 3.0? -- Amir -- Forwarded message -- From: Juan E. Delacruz Date: 2012/10/10 Subject: Re: [Mobile Feedback] Wikipedia To: Amir E. Aharoni ‫amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il‬ I have a Archos 70b

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New Wikipedia registration page being tested in English

2012-10-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/10/5 Steven Walling : > Hey, > > Today we (editor engagement experiments team) started an A/B test of a > new account registration page on English Wikipedia. Is it a part of MediaWiki core or a completely local hack in en.wikipedia? Is it possible to localize the messages there, like "Enter

Re: [WikimediaMobile] unclear message: wpmobj2me-lang-dialog-title

2012-09-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thank you! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2012/9/16 Brion Vibber : > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Brion Vibber wrote: >> >> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:46

[WikimediaMobile] unclear message: wpmobj2me-lang-dialog-title

2012-09-16 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
What is the meaning of the message wpmobj2me-lang-dialog-title in the mobile Wikipedia app? "Language Set" can be translated in many different ways. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ ___

Re: [WikimediaMobile] URGENT: translations in the WLM app

2012-08-13 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thanks a lot! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni‏ ። אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי Localization developer‏ ። מְפַתֵּחַ תְּמִיכָה רַב־לְשׁוֹנִית Wikimedia Foundation‏ ። קֶרֶן וִיקִימֶדְיָה 2012/8/13 Tomasz Finc : > And the latest build is availlable at > > https://integration.mediawiki.org/WLMMobile/nightly/ >

[WikimediaMobile] URGENT: translations in the WLM app

2012-08-12 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, The WLMMobile app has complete or nearly complete translations to 28 languages already.[1] Unfortunately, the translators cannot see the results of their work and test them. According to Yuvi, pull request #101 [2] is supposed to fix it, but it is not merged yet. I invited translators to tran

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WLM app on translatewiki.net

2012-08-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/8/2 Philip Chang : > I updated the translation page (the beginning). > > Amir, there is a redline here: > > Some UI terminology may need to stay consistent with other translations on > particular platforms; for details see /Terms Fixed. -- Amir __

Re: [WikimediaMobile] WLM app on translatewiki.net

2012-08-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Thank you, Richard. One thing that must be checked is the license. I guessed that it's GPL2, but I couldn't actually find it in the source. I also opened a few i18n bugs - they should be easy to fix. 2012/8/2 Arthur Richards : > Awesome! Thanks Amir. > >> 2. Create the WLMMobile project page in

[WikimediaMobile] WLM app on translatewiki.net

2012-08-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I understood from Niklas and Siebrand that the WLM app is ready to be enabled on translatewiki.net from our side. What we need from the Mobile Team now is these things: 1. Write proper qqq documentation. Actually, this is almost complete in GitHub already. I made a few little changes and sen

[WikimediaMobile] FAQ about the app for users

2012-07-30 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Yesterday on IRC I invited a few people to start writing an FAQ about the Wikipedia mobile app, with the hope that it will make using the app easier, and will also make the feedback process more efficient. Quite a lot was already written by : http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/mobile-users-faq Ple

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Language problems

2012-07-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/7/20 Amir E. Aharoni : > 2012/7/20 Jaqen : >> 2) if my language is English but I'm reading an article in Italian and >> I use the share feature I will be sharing the en.wp article instead of >> the it.wp one, as it should be. (I don't know if this bug i

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Language problems

2012-07-20 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/7/20 Jaqen : > 2) if my language is English but I'm reading an article in Italian and > I use the share feature I will be sharing the en.wp article instead of > the it.wp one, as it should be. (I don't know if this bug is already > known) This is definitely a bug, and it's quite nasty. Thanks

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Mobile Feedback] Main page

2012-07-19 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I tend to agree with the people who prefer less content on the main page. However, the real problem with the current approach is that it assumes that there are "featured article" and "in the news" sections in the main pages in all languages, and this is wrong. Some languages put other content unde

Re: [WikimediaMobile] (BN) Telefonica Bids to Own the Latin Smartphone Halting Google: Tech

2012-07-05 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Mozilla's idea is to do it, as must as possible, with nothing but web technologies, so there would be little-to-none "native" code, but only HTML5 / JS / CSS. A lot of ideology is involved in it - it would be a lot easier for everybody to simply accept WebKit as the de-facto standard, but de-facto

[WikimediaMobile] failing MobileFrontend JavaScript tests

2012-07-01 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, I have MobileFrontend installed on my test wiki. I run the QUnit suite frequently to test the extension that I'm developing, and in the last couple of days, a lot of MobileFrontend tests are failing. Do you experience it, too? -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharo

[WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia App / OSM / Slashdot

2012-04-08 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
The fact that i still get most of my tech news from Slashdot probably makes me a hopeless old fart, but anyway: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/08/1432210/wikipedia-mobile-apps-switch-to-openstreetmap -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Can't zoom mobile Wikipedia

2012-03-02 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Dear Andy, Thank you very much for the feedback. Pinch zoom was disabled for now because of technical limitations, but will be enabled in a future version. It is possible to increase the font size in the preferences. 2012/3/2 Andy Mabbett : > A visually impaired web-developer friend pointed ou

[WikimediaMobile] RTL in OpenStreetMap

2012-02-22 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi, Now that the bug that prevented the nearby from working in many languages is fixed, the most important i18n bug in the mobile app now is this: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34201 There are a few other RTL bugs, but they are all cosmetic. This one is very important, however: p

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site usage

2012-02-21 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
Hi Jon, The main statistics and analysis site for Wikimedia projects is http://stats.wikimedia.org . Browser statistics are here: http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportClients.htm Unfortunately, currently there are no details statistics about browser usage per country. These may