DJ: The docs will be updated next time when RESTBase gets deployed.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman <
d.j.hartman+wmf...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For more information, check out the docs:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Feed/aggregatedFeed_0
>
> The docs could use some
them
please comment on the Phab ticket by Thursday, May 19, 2016.
[1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132597
Thank you,
Bernd Sitzmann
Android app & Mobile Content Service
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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
I've collected some info of Gather API calls the Android app could use to
sync saved pages. This could be extended for general collections and watch
lists later.
There are some features missing from the Gather API and deployments to
other wikis besides en and he WP. See my comments on
Hi,
I'm building the ToC entries from Parsoid HTML content. Another part which
caused some struggle is building the correct anchors for the section
headings.
First I thought I could just use the id attributes in the heading tags
Parsoid provides[2].
Example from [1]:
Template truncation
But
(we've
> brainstormed some ideas in the past, but I forget the details right now).
>
> Subbu.
>
>
> On 10/27/2015 05:01 PM, Bernd Sitzmann wrote:
>
> Subbu, Gergo and Gabriel:
>
> Thank you for your comments so far.
>
> Just to be clear, ideally I want the anchor
S,
No, the RESTBase mobileapps service[1] doesn't do this currently. That
should be possible, though.
The service currently uses action=mobileview under the hood. This means it
gets it first from the WP instances, and it that one doesn't have it it
would go to Wikidata.
In the future we'll
Dear fellow Android devs,
A quick heads-up that we've updated the folder structure in our Android app
repo to follow Gradle standard structure.[1] This should help get new
Android developers get up to speed with our app code a bit quicker.
It's best to clone the Git repo to a new folder and do a
://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98528
On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the actual JPEG / PNG of the (lead) image
will not be sent together with the first response, right? If so, simply
adding the JSON with the three sizes adds
I'm also in favor of adding Talk links to the apps. In fact it did a very
simple PoC[1] for the Android app a while ago, which I just rebased and
updated comments yesterday.
It's not perfect but I think it works pretty decently with regular Talk
pages. For Flow pages[2] more CSS is needed to make
This time we only had Gabriel from the RESTBase services team and myself
from the Android/Mobile Content service team attending.
We basically talked about the status of the Mobile Content Service and
plans to moving forward.
See the notes at https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/ReadingAPIServices.
Joaquin,
What Andre said, except I didn't have that handy help reference he linked
to. I saw an example somewhere. The reason why the links in above Phab
ticket might look a bit cryptic at first is the URI encoding of the
formatting of the template text. I just wrote the template as I wanted it
/ci/job/apps-android-wikipedia-gradlew/615/
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org wrote:
http://android-builds.wmflabs.org/ is back to producing fresh Android
alpha apks.
So, you can disregard my earlier email.
Cheers,
Bernd
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:17 PM
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104086 is a bug report template for
Android issues.
The easiest way to file a new bug is to go there and click on the link to
file a pre-populated Phab ticket. Most of the time the regular one is
what you need. If you fill out bugs coming from OTRS or crash
...@wikimedia.org wrote:
awesome, Bernd!
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104086 is a bug report template for
Android issues.
The easiest way to file a new bug is to go there and click on the link
to file a pre-populated Phab
+mobile-l
Hi Android devs,
For non-Android devs who are wondering what the issue is: Android string
resource syntax for parameters is based on Java + printf syntax. So, we end
up with parameter placeholders like %s %2$s %.2f . Some translators just
think they can use $1, $2, like with PHP or
at 1:17 PM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
We've got a Phabricator project for the Mobile Content Service at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile_content_service/.
Reminder: docs are at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase_services_for_apps
Cheers,
Bernd
We've got a Phabricator project for the Mobile Content Service at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/mobile_content_service/.
Reminder: docs are at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase_services_for_apps
Cheers,
Bernd
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http://android-builds.wmflabs.org/ is back to producing fresh Android alpha
apks.
So, you can disregard my earlier email.
Cheers,
Bernd
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Due to labs outage, the Android alpha build has not been run since
Wednesday
Due to labs outage, the Android alpha build has not been run since
Wednesday.
If you want to grab the latest and greatest newly merged alpha apk then you
can do so from Gerrit Jenkins. Since the apk built there do use the same
signing certificate yet, you would have to uninstall the old alpha
+ mobile-l
Thank you, Gabriel!
Cheers,
Bernd
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Gabriel Wicke gwi...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Gabriel and Yuri:
Can we get RESTBase also deployed on the mobile sites, too
Yes, moving transformations that currently the client does to the server is
one of the approaches the service is doing. Well, it's doing some already
but hopefully more soon.
I've started documenting the service at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/RESTBase_services_for_apps.
And now for another
Here are some, mostly Android related, notes from Google IO this year:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notes_from_Google_I/O_15.
If you are interested in Android or performance check it out.
Cheers,
Bernd
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Yes, we're using the mapbox API for Android. There's one for iOS and Web,
too.
Its pretty cool. It allows for customized tooltips on the place markers.
We were hitting the OSM servers directly. As far as I understand we would
need to switch to a different service, like i believe Yuri and Max
On Android, we restrict logging of the text field to the first 99
characters. But, of course, there are many other fields. If there is a long
title, maybe the text is in a multi-byte code set, then it could be that
the total message gets too long.
Ideally, we would look at the total message
While you're at it please also check about the reachout to the local Google
Developer Group.
Thanks,
Bernd
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote:
The hackathon team handled outreach with at least a couple CocoaHeads
groups. I'll check on a status update.
-Adam
to those to designers or QA if needed (before or
after merge).
We can now obsolete the Maven pom files, and restructure the folders to
match a more Gradle standard folder structure.
Thank you,
Bernd
Am 12.05.2015 11:11 schrieb Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr:
Le 11/05/2015 20:34, Bernd
Hello Antoine,
I would like it if you could set up a Jenkins job for Android according to
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88494. No Gradle or Android SDK setup is
needed! See my comments at the end of this Phab ticket. The Gradle command
line is already included in our Git repo. The Android
FYI. I just fixed the alpha build for the Android app. (
http://android-builds.wmflabs.org/)
It had issues with the java-mwapi dependency. It was most likely cause by
one of the recent labs outages (the team Maven repo, which hosts only this
library, is also on tool labs).
More details on
Dear Android app friends,
Around an hour ago I pushed out a new release for the beta app, so it
should be available fairly soon.
Changes for beta / 2015-04-10 [1] include:
* Show local page titles in language list entries of 'Read in other
languages'
* ShareAFact: correctly align WP wordmark
Just pushed out a new release for the beta app, which should be available
soon.
beta / 2015-04-03 (versionCode 99... Luftballons)
==
Page load performance:
* Reuse the same WebView for article navigation. - No animations between
page transitions anymore.
* Reduce size of face
You can use the Esc key for the back button. It's the same as in the
emulator.
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
I saw Ars' article about ARC, interesting stuff. Glad it doesn't run on
iOS or I'd be out of a job!
On Friday, April 3, 2015, Tomasz
What's the distribution of the different positions clicked on in Read more?
Pos 1, 2, 3? I bet #1 still gets the most but the other ones are probably
not too far behind.
Since you used the word verdict. Does this imply we abandon Read next?
Bernd
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Monte Hurd
Thank you for the feedback. It's clear that we need option (b) but at a
reduced scale initially, and later when we want to actually use it for the
beta app increase it, then later for production increase it some more.
This helps with estimating the task
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91794
I have not listened to the podcast yet, but my opinion is similar to what
Brian described.
So, +1 for feature flags.
Bernd
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Listened to it this morning, gotta say I think I'm on Team Flag, if it's
done well. IMO we
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On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Monte Hurd mh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Very cool!!!
On Mar 2, 2015, at 12:56 PM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
As part of the Node.js prototype spike
https://trello.com/c/11vVs1El/2-spike-hr-investigate-building-a-node-js-service
The next episode in this season of Android Wikipedia beta app releases[1]
has been produced and published. Right after a short wait[2] you can enjoy
a new feature right on your Android device screen:
- New beta feature: Share a quick fact from a Wikipedia page as an image
card on Twitter or other
FYI, while searching for Android libraries I came across the Android
Arsenal site[1], which is a directory of libraries for Android.
Warning: I admit it got me a bit sidetracked because of all the interesting
links there.
On there it also has some best practices and pattern links. One of the many
Since I'm evaluation third party libraries for onboarding, I thought it
would be good to create a checklist[1], similar to what the iOS engineers
did.
If you'd like to propose changes to that checklist you can either add
something to the talk page or reply to this mail.
Thanks,
Bernd
[1]
Hi,
As part of the Node.js prototype spike
https://trello.com/c/11vVs1El/2-spike-hr-investigate-building-a-node-js-service-for-mobile-apps-content,
I created a Github repo:
https://github.com/berndsi/service-mobileapp-node/tree/dev
Note that this is the dev branch, where I put the mobileapp
Hi all,
A new apk for the beta app[1] was just published to Google Play, which
should be available within a couple of hours.
Here's what's new:
beta/2.0-beta-2015-02-27:
- 2 widgets for search and feature page (this time hopefully ;) )
- Improve moving of infoboxes to end of first paragraph
-
Adam: Thank you for the summary.
Gabriel/Marko: Thank you for the session earlier, the links, and esp. the
service template which are very helpful to get started.
+1 for taking If-None-Match headers into account to help clients
downloading duplicate payloads. This should be useful in the future.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org wrote:
* Two widgets added: search + today's featured article
Correction. The widgets are not included in the beta app yet. We are going
to include them as part of the next beta release.
Bernd
Hi all,
A new apk for the beta app[1] was just published to Google Play, which
should be available in a couple of hours.
Here's what's new:
beta/2.0-beta-2015-02-19:
* Bring back search suggestions
* Two widgets added: search + today's featured article
* Translucent toolbar
* Lead image/gallery:
Max,
For regular page views we split it into two requests: one for lead section
and another for the remaining sections.
As a general rule of thumb we want to put only the information that is
needed to display above the fold (section 0, lead image URL, Wikidata
description, ...), plus maybe some
Hi,
This was a temporary issue, and has been fixed by us restarting the web
server. Please try again.
If it still doesn't work, you might want to refresh Gradle dependencies:
./gradlew --refresh-dependencies
or remove ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.mediawiki.api/json/1.3.0
Thanks for
Dear Android Wikipedia Beta app users,
We just published a new beta release, which should be available through the
store in a couple of hours. Here are the changes:
* Image gallery: when viewing images in full screen you can now also swipe
left/right to see other images on the same page, in
Hi,
As a heads-up, we've released another update of the beta app a few minutes
ago.
This a more of a bug fix release:
* Fix lead image click area in 2.3. This made it really hard to use the app
on Android 2.3.
* Go to first suggestion when search submit button is pressed instead of
taking the
Dear Android app users,
A few minutes ago a new beta release got published, which should be
available through the store in a couple of hours. It's been a while since
we last published a new beta so the list of changes is fairly long and
exciting:
* Material design icons and 5.0 toolbar/support
*
have three valid results.
Bernd
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Nice job team. I'm excited to see WikiData show up more and and the
read more sections.
How are we sourcing those?
--tomasz
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm
Nemo,
Prefix search doesn't offer suggestions. So, 0 then.
Bernd
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
wrote:
Dan Garry, 04/12/2014 03:15:
# *Percentage of queries that give 0 results: *19%
How many of these offered a did you mean alternative?
Can
Google has uploaded the Material Design icons to Github.[1]
At a quick glance it seems to have all the icons we need, and already in
svg format. There's even a toc icon[2]. I think we should consider
switching to those for the Android app to be more in line with other
Android apps.
Bernd
[1]
Monte, The screenshots show title search (prefixsearch). I'm suprised that
prefixsearch would be affected by any full text search (
CirrusSearch/ElasticSearch) changes. I thought those would be independent
systems.
-Bernd
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Monte Hurd mh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Monte/Dan:
Yes, this has been proposed for the Android app in
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71136 and
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34100.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hey Amir,
Thanks for the email! It's nice to
Done.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Bernd,
Can you update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Release_history with
this?
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Dear Android app users,
I just published
I just pushed out a beta release (versionCode 85) 2014-10-20 with the
following changes:
* Search results ordering updated to be consistent with mobile web.
* Use real action bar for pages and navigation changes:
** Back button will revisit saved pages, history, nearby, search, ...
** Search input
For people who are using the Android app alpha apk:
Yuvi has switched to a new server at https://android-builds.wmflabs.org/.
You can download the latest alpha build from there.
Enjoy
Bernd
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Hi Florian,
Just to follow up via email: Thank you for letting us know about the issue.
Dmitry and I have removed the old translations of What's New from the store
listing. So, this should not happen anymore.
-Bernd
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:16 AM, florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de
Just published a new beta[1] version to the store. Should be available in
an hour or two.
Changes:
* Introducing a new feature to list nearby pages (within 10 km of current
location). This is why we now request a new Android permission to be able
to retrieve the current location (from network or
of the group Users.
Dan
On 16 September 2014 14:36, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
wrote:
Bernd Sitzmann, 16/09/2014 22:32:
* Disable translations on translatewiki.net
http://translatewiki.net/ for the various Commons related message
groups. [1]
I already submitted https
I agree. It should be pulled from both the store and disabled on
translatewiki.net.
On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Monte Hurd mh...@wikimedia.org wrote:
I think it should be pulled.
On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 6 September 2014 15:40, Derk-Jan
We should definitely do this. I'm very excited about all three initiatives
you sent out.
I think the UX review should be the first one. Then once we've addressed
some of the bigger issues from the UX review we should proceed with the
other two.
Thank you,
Bernd
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 4:46 PM,
To help discoverability we could open the ToC drawer the first time the
user encounters a page with multiple sections.
-Bernd
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Sage Ross s...@ragesoss.com wrote:
I guess the discoverability problem is something that will get
addressed at some point by
Count me in!
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 9:04 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
I think it is super awesome. Sign me up for serverside help.
And we don't let Moiz name anything ever, EVER.
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Moiz Syed ms...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Seeing all this excitement
Today's update to the Wikipedia app[1] includes the following changes:
Add Today menu
Dark theme: appearance of images, background on editing screens, remove
inline colors from within tables
References with page internal links work now
Fix crash when clicking on link in references panel
Show
Today's update to the Wikipedia Beta App[1] includes the following changes:
Add Today menu
Dark theme: appearance of images, background on editing screens, remove
inline colors from within tables
References with page internal links work now
Fix crash when clicking on link in references panel
Show
Hi Pine,
A few more responses:
Support interwiki linking such as to Meta
Interwiki links already work in the app. If the link goes to another
wikipedia.org site then it stays within the app, if not then it gets opend
in the browser. This is because the app registers for Android intents to
Vibha,
Would you mind making a blue flag icon (or two if there needs to be a
different color for night mode). While I could easily adjust the color of
the flag in native Java code, it's not that easy in CSS for the web page.
Thanks,
Bernd
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm
in the direct manipulation step in the editing
workflow.
Apply same color as the W to the icon for the Night Mode/ Reverse Theme.
Vibha Bamba
Senior Designer | WMF Design
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Vibha,
The color changes can
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Vibha,
Thank you for the flag icon. Attached you can find some screen shots for
the page issues dialog for your review: one with light theme, another one
with dark theme. Let me know what needs to change
With this you will be able to have three variants of the app installed at
the same time:
- ci
- beta
- stable
And no uninstall required. :)
Bernd
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Tomasz Finc tf...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia Android version 2.0-alpha-2014-07-02 comes with a few smaller
changes:
- Fixed some crashes related to logging and find in page
- Last updated link goes to mobile site instead of desktop site
- Add link from create account to login screen
- Change edit workflow licensing text to include
at 9:09 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Today's update to the Alpha and Beta[1] versions of the Android app
includes the following changes:
- Added option to refresh Saved Pages.
- Improved styling of Login and Create Account screens.
- Improved handling of Random pages
/android/wikipedia/
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Today's update to the Alpha and Beta[1] versions of the Android app
includes the following changes:
- Added option to refresh Saved Pages.
- Improved styling of Login and Create Account screens
Today's update to the Alpha and Beta[1] versions of the Android app
includes the following changes:
- Added option to refresh Saved Pages.
- Improved styling of Login and Create Account screens.
- Improved handling of Random pages.
- Updated translations/internationalization.
- Numerous bug/crash
Today's alpha/beta update of Wikipedia Android app brings you these changes:
- Edit workflow simplified
- Updated Table of Contents icon (not blurry anymore)
- Bring back bookmarks as saved pages [1]
- Not stopping playback of music when leaving a page anymore
- Fixed character set issues in pages
Sorry, almost forgot a big one:
- Search for titles with ampersands are fixed. Now you can search for RB,
etc.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Bernd Sitzmann bsitzm...@wikimedia.org
wrote:
Today's alpha/beta update of Wikipedia Android app brings you these
changes:
- Edit workflow
Either way is fine for me, as long as we don't lose the repo.
I just wanted to give kudos to Brion for the visuals of the Win8 app
leading with prominent images. Also the search charm integration seems very
nice. (This is based on the store description and screenshots there.
Haven't played with
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