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

2016-02-19 Thread Dan Garry
rd) things, like how the parameters affect the zero-results rate or result ordering; since there's no user interaction with the replayed queries, you don't know what the clickthrough would've been, so it's hard to measure how satisfied the user would've been. Hopefully that h

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile web and the curious case of the peacock butterfly

2015-12-15 Thread Dan Garry
NWP_FPC.jpg > and > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desktop_-_peacock_butterfly_ENWP_FPC.jpg > > Pine > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > >> See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121466 >> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Dan Garry

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile web and the curious case of the peacock butterfly

2015-12-15 Thread Dan Garry
__ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Reading web dashboard

2015-09-23 Thread Dan Garry
aging the Wikimedia reading web team to use this > frequently in our standups. > > Happy coding reviewing/submitting! :) > > ___ > reading-wmf mailing list > reading-...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.0.110-beta-2015-08-31)

2015-09-01 Thread Dan Garry
2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796, there's a nice overview by > Bryan Davis here too, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92796#1582443 > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Tomasz Finc wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Stephen Niedzielski >> wrote: >>

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia legacy device active maintenance ending

2015-08-31 Thread Dan Garry
Any issues with MediaWiki would be fixed in MediaWiki, not the app. We've never released a security update for the Android app in the past, and it is highly unlikely that it would ever be necessary in the future. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia legacy device active maintenance ending

2015-08-31 Thread Dan Garry
ts > >>>>> you. > >>>>> > >>>>> * What this means for all other devices > >>>>> Reap the benefits of a Wikipedia for Android experience built to > take > >>>>> advantage of

Re: [WikimediaMobile] What people think about Wikidata descriptions in search on mobile web beta, and a question about "arbitrary access" of Wikidata data

2015-08-14 Thread Dan Garry
I've seen arguments on both sides here. Some say automatically generated descriptions are not good enough. Some say they are. Why don't we gather some data on this and use that to decide what's right? :-) Dan On 14 Aug 2015 6:29 pm, "Dmitry Brant" wrote: > > The argument "not good enough" is a f

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-search] Fwd: "Morelike" suggestions - the results are in!

2015-08-04 Thread Dan Garry
On 4 August 2015 at 14:22, Jon Katz wrote: > > given that the backend service was designed for A by the growth team(?) > *cough* Discovery! ;-) Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing li

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

2015-07-24 Thread Dan Garry
need a button to get there. For readers (the primary user type that the app supports), the talk page experience in the app is not good enough to expose the users to it, and we never had the capacity to get the experience to a place where it was good enough for them without considerable work to build

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app question

2015-05-04 Thread Dan Garry
t; The app will do this when there is a section anchor in the link, e.g. [[Manchester#History|History]]. Next time you spot this happening, can you hit back and tell me whether the link you tapped had the form as above in wikitext? Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Search and Discovery Wi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Inconsistent editable key in the mobileview API

2015-04-28 Thread Dan Garry
in the mobile app will erroneously show as protected. :-( Changed to what? I think it would be a pain to deal with in any language ;-) > Changed to either return true or false. But you did that for me, so thank you. :-) Dan -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Search and Disco

[WikimediaMobile] Inconsistent editable key in the mobileview API

2015-04-28 Thread Dan Garry
nse is false on a protected page Does anyone know why this is? It'd be nice if this could be changed, because it's a pain to deal with things like this in a strongly-typed language like Java. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Product Manager, Search and Discovery Wikimedia Foun

Re: [WikimediaMobile] API Phabricator cards, list threads, other

2015-04-22 Thread Dan Garry
ing ahead for coordination especially > with Brad Jorsch - Mr. API! - on the Reading team. > > -Adam > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mo

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Removing MobileFrontend from Gather dependencies

2015-04-15 Thread Dan Garry
> > What do people think about taking this approach on the short term? > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94100 > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

2015-04-14 Thread Dan Garry
n touched in a while, so I'm not certain about the accuracy of this data. That said, I took a quick look at the code, and it seems to be grabbing the right data, so I'm pretty sure it's accurate. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Produc

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

2015-04-14 Thread Dan Garry
per month. The Wikipedia app has around 6,000,000 unique users per month. Given our team size, we decided it was more strategic to devote all of our efforts to making the Wikipedia app the best it can be. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia F

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

2015-04-14 Thread Dan Garry
/id962894692?mt=8 and https://github.com/lyrk/Commons > :-) > > Maarten > > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Dan Garry As

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

2015-04-08 Thread Dan Garry
, you > should consider handing tools to the community to detect that something is > wrong. Like https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File_metadata_cleanup_drive I'd love to solve this more systematically. What are your suggestions for how we could do that? We've not had much luck thin

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

2015-04-08 Thread Dan Garry
or to expect all users to even have mobile phones. The software should support them. In my opinion the preview screen should support the ability to preview how a change will look on a mobile device. This is nontrivial for a variety of reasons. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Produc

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

2015-04-05 Thread Dan Garry
So, you should all notice lead images appearing a fair bit faster than they did before! Hooray! Also, the patch that implemented this <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/185934/> was one of the first by our newest team member, Michael. Nice work, Michael! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Content missing from mobile apps and mobile web

2015-03-31 Thread Dan Garry
On 31 March 2015 at 11:08, Dan Garry wrote: > > The second is the {{listen}} template not being displayed in the Android > app. I have created T91621 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91621> to > track this. This is simply a bug. We will investigate. > My apologies, I pu

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Content missing from mobile apps and mobile web

2015-03-31 Thread Dan Garry
On 31 March 2015 at 11:18, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Oop, I tell a lie; it works now. How weird! Only a couple of weeks ago > it wasn't. Ah well; fixed, I guess? You're not the only one. I too thought it was still broken, and was pleasantly surprised when it was not. :-) Da

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Content missing from mobile apps and mobile web

2015-03-31 Thread Dan Garry
On 31 March 2015 at 11:15, Oliver Keyes wrote: > Well, I can reproduce it on my iphone; want a screenshot? Yes please! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobil

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Content missing from mobile apps and mobile web

2015-03-31 Thread Dan Garry
> Thank you for your work to make Wikipedia reading be a good experience on > mobile. > > Pine > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Dan Garry As

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia app for Android update

2015-03-30 Thread Dan Garry
! Also, we've been getting a lot of five star reviews today <https://i.imgur.com/IXOuxy2.png>. ;-) Nice work, team! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikime

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Read next vs Read more: the verdict

2015-03-23 Thread Dan Garry
mply we abandon Read next? > Certainly we know that "Read more" drives more engagement. Therefore, for now I think we shouldn't use "Read next" in production. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation __

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikidata descriptions: ruminations

2015-03-22 Thread Dan Garry
ors instead of Wikidata > contributors. Thoughts? > I've spun this off into a separate thread to keep this conversation focussed: [Apps] Encouraging Wikipedia/Commons contributions (was: Wikidata descriptions). Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager

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

2015-03-22 Thread Dan Garry
imilar again. Do you have any specific suggestions? Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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

2015-03-22 Thread Dan Garry
an empty text box, because showing them dialogues with text in will just slow them down. If this feature is for the totally new user, you need a bit more of a walkthrough, but not too much otherwise people will disengage. We're going to drill down into our personas for this feature next wee

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Read next vs Read more: the verdict

2015-03-20 Thread Dan Garry
27;s the verdict of the test! - Read more has a clickthrough rate of 15.4% (65,448 views, 10,600 clicks) - Read next has a clickthrough rate of 10.4% (59,668 views, 6,180 clicks) So it would seem that read next is not as effective at driving clicks as read more is. Interesting! Thanks,

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikidata description editing prototype

2015-03-19 Thread Dan Garry
you're the a savvy Android engineer, check out the patch and build your own Wikipedia Alpha app to test it: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/197733/ If you're not, watch a video of it in action: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nx7xmerlyelk963/wddedit.mp4?dl=0 Feedback welcome! Thanks, Dan --

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Q4 proposal: In-line Wikidata description editing

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Garry
On Friday, March 13, 2015, Dan Garry wrote: > > Not yet, because we're still not decided on that yet. > To clarify this, I mean that we have not reached a final decision about the scope of the work or what is required from engineering. Obviously I have an idea in my head ab

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Q4 proposal: In-line Wikidata description editing

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Garry
ay out. Then it'll become clearer why I made the resource asks that I did, I think. I'll share that deck on here when I have it. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Q4 proposal: In-line Wikidata description editing

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Garry
thout literally brain dumping everything I wrote down into an email. Did I adequately answer you? Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Garry
ecome messy :) > See my above reply on this. The complexity of a settings interface grows exponentially with each setting added, as does the amount of support that needs to go into maintaining the product. It's not a matter of "just making it simple"; ultimate customisability comes at

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

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Garry
/1BJ7uDgzO8IJT0M3UM2q-e5dM5Tzt6p7w1mgNAd-Z3WE/edit#gid=0> we did, as an example of information that's lost by what we're proposing. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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

2015-03-13 Thread Dan Garry
; without any changes? > > > > > > Kind reagrds, > > Florian > > > > > > Freundliche Grüße > Florian Schmidt > > > > > > -----Original-Nachricht- > > Betreff: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Stripping content inside brackets from > the fir

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

2015-03-12 Thread Dan Garry
es", to save UI space. This is a screenshot <http://i.imgur.com/esKUIon.jpg> of what happens when you tap on that button. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@list

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

2015-03-12 Thread Dan Garry
I got the screenshots the wrong way around in my original email. They should be like this: - Before: http://i.imgur.com/2A5PLmy.jpg - After: http://i.imgur.com/VwKerbv.jpg Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation

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

2015-03-12 Thread Dan Garry
om/2A5PLmy.jpg If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Improving Android release cadence

2015-03-12 Thread Dan Garry
for this, and your branching strategy >>>>>>> will >>>>>>> depend mostly on how the team wants to operate. Pretty much all of them >>>>>>> boil down to NOT merging features into master that are not going to be >>>>&g

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Node.js service prototype for mobileapps

2015-03-12 Thread Dan Garry
) > Exactly! :-) At this stage the required improvements to the service itself are relatively clear with few unknowns. However, the deployment of the service to production, even as an experimental service, has a lot of unknowns. Let's keep our eyes on this goal. Dan -- Dan Garry Assoc

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Q4 proposal: In-line Wikidata description editing

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Garry
use I could keep going if you're interested!), then let me know. :-) Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New version of Wikipedia Beta released today

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Garry
versions of Android. Thanks to our Wikipedia Beta users helping us catch this beta so it never made it into the main Wikipedia app! As always, if you have any questions, let me know! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation __

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

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Garry
ta description editing on the Wikipedia app <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals/Q4#In-line_Wikidata_description_editing_on_the_Wikipedia_app> . Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Q4 proposal: In-line Wikidata description editing

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Garry
Breaking news! Product manager puts in project proposal for Q4 priorities! Read all about it! https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals/Q4#In-line_Wikidata_description_editing_on_the_Wikipedia_app Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Improving Android release cadence

2015-03-09 Thread Dan Garry
y and Bernd figure out what their process should be for maximum effectiveness. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/ma

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

2015-03-06 Thread Dan Garry
.org/wiki/Cephalopod> >> Mahatma Gandhi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi> >> Nietzsche <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche> >> Carthage <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage> >> Phoenicia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia> >> Timur <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur> >> >> >> >> >> Vibha Bamba >> Senior Designer | WMF Design >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Summary: Sprint 53, iOS (16 March - 29 March)

2015-03-06 Thread Dan Garry
I just want to quickly note that this email notes the team's initial thoughts about what we are planning to do next sprint. It is not yet a commitment to do said work; that happens after our estimation meetings. That will happen next week. Dan On 6 March 2015 at 12:07, Dan Garry wrote:

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Summary: Sprint 53, Android (16 March - 29 March)

2015-03-06 Thread Dan Garry
I just want to quickly note that this email notes the team's initial thoughts about what we are planning to do next sprint. It is not yet a commitment to do said work; that happens after our estimation meetings. That will happen next week. Dan On 6 March 2015 at 12:07, Dan Garry wrote:

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Summary: Sprint 53, iOS (16 March - 29 March)

2015-03-06 Thread Dan Garry
et to these tasks, so that's why their stretch goals. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Summary: Sprint 53, Android (16 March - 29 March)

2015-03-06 Thread Dan Garry
View rather than creating and destroying new ones for each navigation event. Users of less powerful devices have been experiencing random crashes and out of memory errors, and our work will help address this. If you have any questions, feel free to let me know! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associ

Re: [WikimediaMobile] beta testing win

2015-03-05 Thread Dan Garry
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > ‪“We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Tracking task for hackathon projects

2015-03-04 Thread Dan Garry
d/or other teams), rather than simple > bugfixes. > > I linked to it from the Lyon Hackathon task: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89084 > > > -Dmitry > > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation __

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] iOS load time performance regression

2015-02-25 Thread Dan Garry
. Some of the iOS engineering team and myself will be meeting tomorrow to discuss specific action items for fixing this, and working on this next sprint. We need to get this fixed before we get a production release. Thanks! Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikidata-l] descriptions in mobile app

2015-02-24 Thread Dan Garry
quarter by shifting focus from readership to contributions. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

2015-02-24 Thread Dan Garry
ing, but the product manager in me would rather have our users informed and using the stuff we make... and the product manager bit wins. ;-) We'll roll it out with notices in the relevant bits of the store listing and see what the uptake is. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Ma

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [WikimediaApp] connect.de's short test of the Wikipedia App

2015-02-23 Thread Dan Garry
ctions of articles, needs to make its way to the app once they've got a release under their belt! > - Gap between functionality of android and iOS > > We're working on it! iOS should hopefully have a release by the end of March that brings it up to speed with Android.

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

2015-02-21 Thread Dan Garry
x27;ll need to see how much they're used relative to our other features. We suspect that they will not be used much, but chose to prioritise getting them out because Dmitry already had a proof of concept patch ready which just needed some minor design polishing. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate P

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-15 Thread Dan Garry
presently split in to two teams, WikiGrok and Collections. I'm not sure where their roadmaps are kept. I could rattle off what they're both doing, but really the most accurate and up-to-date explanations would come from the PMs for those teams; Maryana can tell you about WikiGrok and Jon Kat

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-15 Thread Dan Garry
months. That'll bring us to 4 iOS and 4 Android. Hopefully that answers your questions. I'm happy to answer any more that you might have! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Good job iOS app team for getting todays build out

2015-02-13 Thread Dan Garry
http://tflig.ht/1dhqz8j > > --tomasz > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > -- Dan Garry Associate P

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Open Source Third Party Libraries in iOS

2015-02-12 Thread Dan Garry
kage management. >> >> In advance of that meeting tomorrow, anybody have advice we should >> consider? >> >> -Adam >> > > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] "How a Chaos Monkey Created Wikipedia Mobile"

2015-02-10 Thread Dan Garry
t >> Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >> > > > > -- > Maryana Pinchuk > Product Manager, Wikimedia Foundation > wikimediafoundation.org > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

2015-02-05 Thread Dan Garry
hands,And the broad > fall of sunshine, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not > know.* > > *—Catherine Munro* > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.w

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Scope of the apps content service

2015-02-05 Thread Dan Garry
t work offline right now, even if you save the page for offline reading. That said, we may want to punt this until after the MVP as being possibly outside of scope. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Scope of the apps content service

2015-02-05 Thread Dan Garry
ning? What if we add or remove a field from the response? We should version this. Can we do this easily? Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Face detection service?

2015-02-03 Thread Dan Garry
el free to hold me to this by reminding me in a few weeks that I said it. ;-) Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Dan Garry
I've scheduled 30 minutes on Wednesday for myself and the tech leads (Adam, Dmitry) to scope out a Wikipedia Lite app. Dan On 2 February 2015 at 13:59, Dan Garry wrote: > On 1 February 2015 at 14:48, Toby Negrin wrote: > >> Dan -- can you please limit the scope to sizing t

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Dan Garry
Android teams. Plus he has tons of experience with Zero-related matters. I'd also like to go if possible, but prioritise Adam over me. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-02-02 Thread Dan Garry
eed to understand our target market better. You > might also want to check in with your new contact at App Annie to see if > they have useful GS data. > Absolutely. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [WikimediaMobile] wikimedia - build problems with mediaWiki's android platform - Stack Overflow

2015-01-31 Thread Dan Garry
hanks a lot . > > -- > cxysh...@yeah.net > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps W

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

2015-01-30 Thread Dan Garry
because it's a very strategically important part of our user base, which I'm sure Carolynne can attest to! I'd say that we should put some serious thought into whether we'd prefer to have a Wikipedia Lite app for the developing world, rather than our current "one app to rule them

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Using Swift for new feature development on iOS

2015-01-29 Thread Dan Garry
h the lead image Dan On 12 November 2014 at 22:05, Dan Garry wrote: > *tl;dr: The programming language used to develop new features by our iOS > app engineering team is changing from Objective C to Swift at some point in > the near future.* > > When making a native app, the

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Reader experience... it's a thing.

2015-01-20 Thread Dan Garry
p://i.imgur.com/HDQ9HrR.png At the end of Q2: http://i.imgur.com/3X0U9Uw.png We served our users well. Be proud. I know I am. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wiki

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia Beta app update

2015-01-19 Thread Dan Garry
which is always the last commit we do before a beta release. Perhaps a simple script could be written to do that. I know the Editing team has a script like this that they use for some of their repositories. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile A

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android] App update

2015-01-15 Thread Dan Garry
/play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia > [2] http://wikidata.org > > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] experimental error reporting interface for mobile

2014-12-29 Thread Dan Garry
t, so it will be of limited value on non-Italian > Wikipedias. > > Try it out and let me know what you think. > > Kaldari > > ___ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listin

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Beta Android app update

2014-12-19 Thread Dan Garry
can't make software that has zero edge-cases. If we tried to do that, we'd never release anything. Especially with only two engineers. Dan On 19 December 2014 at 12:08, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 19 December 2014 at 19:22, Dan Garry wrote: > > > Given the above, we're not

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Beta Android app update

2014-12-19 Thread Dan Garry
ght now our goals are based on readership, not contribution mechanisms. With such a small team we can't afford to tackle both at once whilst also maintaining the Android platform. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation _

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikidata now has a mobile site

2014-12-16 Thread Dan Garry
On 16 December 2014 at 13:06, Tomasz Finc wrote: > > Did we check in on the raw JSON writing that came up at the showcase? > Yes. The poor UX of the actual workflow aside, it's not possible to save any edit if you manually edit the JSON. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manage

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Q3 focus: improving our recent MVPs

2014-12-15 Thread Dan Garry
res are already pretty well defined and we can start moving on them immediately. Our next steps after that for Q3 will come out of our quarterly planning sessions during the all staff meeting in January. Let me know if you've got any questions! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Multimedia] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?

2014-12-08 Thread Dan Garry
ions but that just seems > icky :) > > > On Dec 8, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Dan Garry wrote: > > On 8 December 2014 at 18:05, Monte Hurd wrote: > >> >> "On iOS, it's worse, because we don't get *any* HTML parsing for free, >> and we actually h

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Multimedia] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?

2014-12-08 Thread Dan Garry
ch is SAX style. What we don't get for free is labels which can render > html links like the android ones you showed me. > Okay, thanks for clarifying! Still, we will have to omit links for simplicity. :-) Dan -- Dan Garry Associate

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Multimedia] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?

2014-12-08 Thread Dan Garry
Hey Gergo, Responses in-line. On 8 December 2014 at 15:03, Gergo Tisza wrote: > Hi Dan! > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Dan Garry wrote: > >> *Background:* The Mobile Apps Team is working on a restyling of the way >> content the first fold of content is presen

Re: [WikimediaMobile] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?

2014-12-08 Thread Dan Garry
stripping the HTML until such time that this is fixed. :-) Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?

2014-12-08 Thread Dan Garry
Sorry, the example query I provided was incorrect. Use this instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=imageinfo&format=jsonfm&iiprop=extmetadata&iilimit=10&titles=File%3ACommon%20Kingfisher%20Alcedo%20atthis.jpg Thanks, Dan On 8 December 2014 at 11:

[WikimediaMobile] CommonsMetadata API returning HTML?

2014-12-08 Thread Dan Garry
ery&prop=imageinfo&format=xml&iiprop=extmetadata&iilimit=10&titles=File%3ACommon%20Kingfisher%20Alcedo%20atthis.jpg. >, and look at "artist" key. The API response has an HTML link in it. -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Simplified search? It's possible!

2014-12-05 Thread Dan Garry
nd see; in almost every case, either the prefix results are in included in the full text search results, or they're actually really irrelevant. Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Simplified search? It's possible!

2014-12-05 Thread Dan Garry
7;t good enough, then we can rollout the fallback of surfacing the buttons without users thinking we're just endlessly tweaking the UI. Please do get in touch if you have any questions! Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation _

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

2014-12-03 Thread Dan Garry
oogle.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheets/d/1syLgNygAS7Prxxg7RTIvK3vxwyVG-ZkjxtK0LSbU76w/edit Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] iOS Wikipedia app 4.0.6 going into the Apple queue

2014-12-02 Thread Dan Garry
> Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] [Web+Apps] Introducing KPhab, our new bug migration system

2014-11-26 Thread Dan Garry
Trello: - Create card with same title as bug in Phabricator - Add link to Phabricator in the card description - Add link to Trello in the Phabricator bug, saying that the issue is tracked in Trello - Mark bug as "Normal" priority All hail KPh

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Update on QA resources assigned to Apps and Editing

2014-11-24 Thread Dan Garry
Adding Greg, Elena and Rummana. Forgot to add them first time around! Dan On 21 November 2014 at 18:33, Dan Garry wrote: > Greg, James, Kristen, Rummana, Elena and myself met today to discuss our > next steps for the QA resources assigned to Editing and Mobile Apps. > > We decid

[WikimediaMobile] Update on QA resources assigned to Apps and Editing

2014-11-21 Thread Dan Garry
to engage with The Specialists Guild for broad regression testing and testing of compatibility with different versions of the iOS and Android OS. The success of this arrangement will be reevaluated in early February, or sooner if deemed necessary. Thanks, Dan -- Dan Garry Associate Product

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Did something change about prefix search today?

2014-11-19 Thread Dan Garry
27;s what searching for "fish" returned yesterday: >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > >>>>> >> > And here's what I get today: >>>>> >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] translatable messages in betas

2014-11-18 Thread Dan Garry
s waiting to get merged, amend the first patch with any changes we make, update the dependent patch, and so on. Overall, that sounds like rather a lot of work to make sure that messages are available in a lot of languages in alpha releases! Dan -- Dan Garry Associat

Re: [WikimediaMobile] switching languages

2014-11-18 Thread Dan Garry
is interested, and to show search results from all of them. > If you've not already, please file a bug for this. It's something we can explore further down the line. However, for the reasons laid out above, our focus is on improving the overall

Re: [WikimediaMobile] translatable messages in betas

2014-11-17 Thread Dan Garry
t;> 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 >> > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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