Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New Android production release

A belated congratulations to the Android team for this release! I've started editing image captions and it's excellent and, based on some preliminary numbers, it looks like our users are happy too! -J On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 2:38 PM Dmitry Brant wrote: > Hey everyone, > > We're excited to release

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia app v6.3 published to app store

Congratulations to the iOS team! These are great additions to the iOS contributor experience. -J On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:48 PM Joshua Minor wrote: > Hello mobile Wikimedians, > > The Wikimedia iOS app team is excited to announce our next major update is > now available on the app store: > htt

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Offline-l] Wikimed Mini release

apparently this didn't reach mobile-l -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephane Coillet-Matillon Date: Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:38 AM Subject: [Offline-l] Wikimed Mini release To: mobile-l , Using Wikimedia projects and MediaWiki offline [Cross-post] A quick note to announce that

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia app v5.5.0 released

Congratulations, iOS team!! On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Joshua Minor wrote: > Hello mobile Wikimedians, > > The iOS team is excited to announce that v5.5.0 of the Wikipedia app for > iOS is now available in the app store: > https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8 > > This

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia app v5.4.0 beta 1 released

The new places tab is really fun and interesting! Congratulations iOS team! On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Joshua Minor wrote: > Hello mobile Wikimedians, > > The iOS app team just pushed an initial beta of our next major update to > our TestFlight channel. If you'd like to enroll as an iOS b

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Prague Pre-Hackathon - registration and travel scholarships open

Hi Pine, That's a great question and one we've thought about a lot on the app teams. It would obviously increase our image contributions a great deal if we connected the ease of uploading of the commons app with the user base of the Wikipedia app. However, given the quality and copyright issues t

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the timespan until February 5, 2017

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Jon Katz wrote: > early results suggest the number for both apps is much higher than the web. Hey Pine, I need to walk this portion of my email back. I'm not saying the opposite is true, just that it is just too early to say this with confidence. T

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the timespan until February 5, 2017

ion. > Thanks, > > Pine > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Jon Katz > wrote: > >> Hi Pine, >> I think for those who are not used to working with it, the day 7 >> retention rate can look low, but it's important to remember that this day 7 >>

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New “On this day” service and location data in summaries

Congratulations to those involved! This will enable important (and asked for) features for our users, and another step in the right direction technically as we leverage more services across multiple platforms and the broader ecosystem. -J On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 8:15 AM, Derk-Jan Hartman < d.j.h

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the timespan until February 5, 2017

Hi Pine, I think for those who are not used to working with it, the day 7 retention rate can look low, but it's important to remember that this day 7 retention metric is not the number of users who continue to use the app after 7 days. It is the number of people who actually visit on the 7th (not

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New Android production release

Congratulations, team! It looks great. On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Dmitry Brant wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app > , > rolling out now to the Google Play St

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia app for iOS v5.1.0 released

Congrats, iOS and the volunteer contributors! Find in page is huge. -J On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:10 PM, Joshua Minor wrote: > Hello, > > This morning the WMF's iOS app team released version 5.1.0 to the app > store [1] > > This version includes: > *- Search within articles!!!* > - New designs

[WikimediaMobile] Language switching improvements on mobile web

Hey Everyone, A big shout out to the reading web team (and Adam B), who rolled out a number of subtle, but important changes to the mobile web sites of all our projects earlier this week. Through a series of UX improvements, the team made it easier for people to switch between languages in an arti

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wmfall] [Apps] Wikipedia for iOS 5.0.5 released to App Store

Congratulations to the iOS team! On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 1:45 PM, Dario Taraborelli < dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Congrats, team. As of v.5 the app has become my primary mode of accessing > Wikipedia on my phone (snappier than the browser and the multilingual > search really did it for m

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: "Among mobile sites, Wikipedia reigns in terms of popularity"

Hi, For those of you following who I haven't worked with before, I am the lead product manager for the reading team. I think James is right that the content is a primary barrier and its an issue we are exploring across both reading and editing. For what its worth, this applies not just to the web

[WikimediaMobile] extension wonkiness on mobile

Hey Folks, Moushira and I are trying to create a low-barrier way for readers, community members and staff to contribute to a discussion in a structured, noob-friendly way. Here is an instance of the 'inputbox' extension that we made: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jkatz_(WMF)/Sandbox/Communi

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

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

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

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

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

favored. Is that a fair assessment? -J On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Gergo Tisza wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 4:00 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > >> Can someone on this list point me to where the more-like code sits? Or >> better, yet would be someone documenting the rules th

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

Hi, Can someone on this list point me to where the more-like code sits? Or better, yet would be someone documenting the rules that govern prioritization of suggestions. I would like to document the logic for our communities so that we can have an open discussion about what variables and weighting

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MobileWikiAppShareAFact event stream was: [Analytics] Stopping eventlogging events into MobileWikiAppShareAFact table

+ Dmitry Hi Nuria, I will ask Dmitry to confirm, but I think a pause is fine for the next couple of days as long as we are given the timestamps for outage can note it on the schema wiki page. Is this a sudden increase or has it always been sending to high of a volume? Regardless, I imagine a hig

Re: [WikimediaMobile] simple english

to do this easy for every article not as a > general setting. > > Rupert > On Dec 11, 2015 21:13, "Jon Katz" > wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> TLDR: want to introduce the idea of surfacing simple english version of >> wikipedia in a more prominent w

[WikimediaMobile] simple english

Hi Folks, TLDR: want to introduce the idea of surfacing simple english version of wikipedia in a more prominent way to test if this appeals to our readers. no timeline, no action items, just an intro to the concept and a request for feedback/suggestions. *Bakground:* As a refresher/summary, as p

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

/github.com/WikiJourney/wikijourney_website/wiki/API-:-How-does-it-work%3F >> >> However, as I said, we may need some help integrating collections, but >> we'll post questions on appropriate sections :) >> >> Thanks for your answers - the app should be in beta

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

up on 23 Oct: >> http://www.meetup.com/de/sfhtml5/events/219966898/ >> >> I'm in. >> > > FWIW, Google appears to be serious about this: > http://searchengineland.com/google-amp-coming-rank-fast-238046 > > Luis > > >> On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 6:43 P

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

Hey, You guys started at the hackathon right? It is so great to hear it is coming along and I look forward to using it as well. -J On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Jon Robson wrote: > I'm not an app developer but if you need a beta tester or any specific > guidance on how you are using the API p

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MobileWebClickTracking schema

Apologies: my email below was referring to a table different from the one Nuria was asking about. No objections from me to remove the table you were discussing. On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 2:09 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > To confirm, this schema is still alive and growing--removing search from > it

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MobileWebClickTracking schema

54448 which tracks search > behaviour. > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > >> I think we should remove search events from it, but currently this is > the > >> only schema that tracks article-level actions. > >> > >&g

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MobileWebClickTracking schema

I think we should remove search events from it, but currently this is the only schema that tracks article-level actions. A while back we shrunk its predecessor by removing the hamburger menu actions, but the search actions account for the vast bulk of this table. Now that there is a separate searc

[WikimediaMobile] scrapping the special:user profile page

Hey Folks, Based on the thread on this ticket, T119412 , it looks like we have addressed all of the concerns raised and can move forward with scrapping mobile's special:userprofile (T85929 ) page in favor of: -

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New Android production release

Congratulations and thanks to the team (especially to the volunteers)!! On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Dmitry Brant wrote: > Hi all, > > We're pleased to announce our latest update to the Wikipedia Android > app[1][2], available now on the Google Play store! Here are the highlights > from this

[WikimediaMobile] Tilman is joining the Reading Team!

Hi Everyone, I’m happy to announce that, as of today, Tilman Bayer has officially joined the Reading product team as a Senior Analyst. He will increase our capacity for understanding our users and the impact of our efforts through data analysis. Tilman is responsible for: - generating our

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Pageview drop

not annoy nice people)! Looking forward to exploring this soon. -J On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Luis Villa wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 10:14 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > >> Do we try to identify reasons users might be skipping out earlier on >> mobile and fixing th

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Browse Hypothesis Results

Thanks for thinking through this, Jon. I think I made something unclear--responses inline. In green to make reading easier: On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > Jon thanks so much for writing this up and thanks Joaquin for putting it > on the wiki (you beat me to it :)) > > I'm

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Browse Hypothesis Results

ational experience) > > Me too! it is very hard to learn anything from a first stab like this > >1. Also loved the win/needs-improvement breakdown at the end > > Thanks! > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Jon Katz wrote: > >> Thanks, Joaquin! >>

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Browse Hypothesis Results

> that can keep it more accessible than the mailing list archive > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-October/009827.html>. > > Any help with formatting or text corrections would be appreciated. > > > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > >>

[WikimediaMobile] Browse Hypothesis Results

Hi Team, I just wanted to update you on the results of something we internally referred to as the '*browse' *prototype. TLDR: as implemented the mobile 'browse by category' test did not drive significant engagement. In fact, as implemented, it seemed inferior to blue links. However, we started wi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > If you really wanted to, you can subset what you send to mobile browsers > and get the same benefits (provided you use a really good CDN). I think this announcement + the transcoding work Google is doin

[WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

FYI. Google just announced an open source project to create a speedier framework for mobile browsing. It might be worth looking at what they're doing: From: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/10/08/035200/googles-effort-to-speed-up-the-mobile-web?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Goo

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the week until September 20, 2015

+ Analytics Tilman, this is great. I find myself enjoying the stats/graphs and analysis/commentary equally and so far I don't see anything that isn't very helpful. Two considerations: - Two app-level metrics I would like to see moving forward would be a number showing a daily/monthly visi

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Readership metrics for the week until September 13, 2015

Thanks, Tilman! This is a great start. Oliver, thank you for your offer of support! For now, we are still in an early 'agile' stage of prioritizing features based on stakeholder's feedback (like the one Pine raised). I think dashboard is something we will consider when we are further down the r

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

This is a really interesting discussion and it seems that there is near-consensus that an automated description for entities without a manual description is not a bad idea, particularly if they are kept in a separate field. Speak now if you feel that is not correct. To S's suggestion: what steps

Re: [WikimediaMobile] outcomes from beta header analysis

Yes! ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] outcomes from beta header analysis

to normal traffic trends. On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Bahodir Mansurov wrote: > On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 10:07 -0700, Jon Katz wrote: > > We need to either increase beta users, a/b test, or test in stable > > more (which would also mean a/b testing on a small % of the > >

[WikimediaMobile] event logging bloat

Hi folks, Back in January, the size of MobileWebClickTracking had gotten to be over 200 gb, making it so slow as to be unusable. As a result, we split up the into 3 separate tables. However, it seems that >90% of the clicks are coming from the article table (or adding search created bloat) and M

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

I'm late to this, but great news! I just want to commend those involved for a great example of cross-pollination between the web team and the app team. This is all the more impressive, given that the backend service was designed for A by the growth team(?), web is using it for B, and the app is u

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app bug report template

awesome, Bernd! On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Bernd Sitzmann 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 ticket. Most of the time the "

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Wikipedia article previews in Kindle app

+ Kouroush A summary of ideas: *WP as destination:* -Sister projects swipable from cards -WMF owned OS integration/browser add-ons *WP as platform:* -API for 'cards' on topics/JS library -Make sure API changes aren't breaking experience for: apple, google, amazon? -Help kindle optimize their cal

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Task/bug naming conventions

Good call, Gergo, and for calling out crap when you see it. I know I am to blame on a lot of these (including the above example). I think the language solution you described is pretty good. restating suggested rules for those who don't read prose: - bugs-->explain bad state in present tense

[WikimediaMobile] Gather update

Hi People Interested in Gather, Given the reorg and the traffic being driven to beta, we need to revisit Gather's Q4 goals: TLDR: Continue working on gather to finish MVP features (end of the month, max), not pushing to stable unless we see 2x the number of logged-in edits on beta (or >10x curre

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] [reading-wmf] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on

I'm inclined to agree with Matt. In fact (and to answer Oliver's question), the team is already considering the next slew of micro-contribution projects. I think it is too early to say which projects will be next, but some ideas include: choosing lead images, editing wikidata descriptions, and re

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on

on instead?" - I > assume that we're not working on them because we can achieve the same > outcome through easier-to-implement interventions. I would be > interested to hear what those interventions are. > > On 1 June 2015 at 14:57, Jon Katz wrote: > > Hi, > > &g

[WikimediaMobile] Wikigrok code no longer being worked on

Hi, *TLDR:* Wikigrok proved that readers are interested in and capable of making casual, mobile contributions to Wikipedia. We are putting continued development of the 'Wikigrok' casual contribution feature on hold until we have a plan for optimally harnessing this interest/capability. *Backgroun

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Fwd: Mobile Firendly

s to ensure the update is fully live already. It should address the issue, assuming that the block on RL's /w/load.php entry point was the only part of the problem. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > +external mobile and wikitech > > Shoot. I meant to send this the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Fwd: Mobile Firendly

ool? Does it > impact our google search rankings? > > Fix is trivial.. Update robots.txt but first the question is why are we > blocking scripts and styles on that url? > On 29 May 2015 1:17 pm, "Jon Katz" wrote: > >> Hi Readership team and broader community, >>

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android Wikipedia beta app release

Congrats, Android team! iOS how is the new release going? I assume silence is good... On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Michael Holloway wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to invite you to check out the newest version of Wikipedia Beta, > which will be available shortly on Google Play. > > Changes in

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Gather sprint Help! kicked off

Thanks, Jon! For those of you who are wondering, the name of our sprint: "Help!" is a reference to the Beatles' album from 1965 (featuring such classic hits as "Help!", "Ticket to Ride" and "Yesterday"). It is definitely not a desperate plea from the ghost of a long forgotten phabricator task or

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

+S (not sure if you're on this list) On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Personally, I would love hand crafted awesome documentation and full > versions of the API. From developers, to developers, with care. > > As an example, the github a

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > Our communities reaction seems to be to push back on > influxes of new edits which makes me feel we should be spending more > time on moderation tools - but so far I don't see any hint that this > will become a focus. > +1 I'll add that tradi

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

Hi Pine, I'm the PM for mobile web and I am listening :) I don't yet understand fully, but want to understand better. I will see if Dan Garry can get me up to speed, but can I follow up with you if I have additional questions? Thanks, Jon On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Pine W wrote: > Ok,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Gather - owner

includes/* -R >> includes/specials/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 >&

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Gather - owner

Hi Amir, I want to help on this, but am not sure where this shows up. Can you refer us to where in the interface owner appears? Thanks, J On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Hi, > > I am translating Gather, and I feel very uncomfortable about

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Deploying Gather to enwiki on Monday

identified, is our bandwidth for communication. Interested in spearheading that effort on one of your favorite languages, Amir? Best, J On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > I'd love to... that's a question for Jon Katz/Moushira .. :-) There's no > reas

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Improved docs on the gather extension

Thanks, Joaquin! On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:28 AM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I've improved with the help of Florian the information on the extension > page to be more comprehensible. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gather > > It should be eno

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Increasing mobile beta audience

Jon, Are there any technical reasons not to explore the % rollout model for collections instead of beta? -J On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Maryana Pinchuk wrote: > Yeah, I think there are a lot of problems with the opt-in beta model. I > much prefer releasing new features to a small % of use