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

Hi Josh, Thanks for the update. I would like to make a suggestion. When there are updates to the Wikipedia mobile apps for Android or iOS, would you consider cross-posting the announcements to the Wikipedia-l mailing list ? I think that

[WikimediaMobile] Improvements to talk page editing on mobile

Hi, I am noticing that the usability of ENWP talk pages on mobile seems to be improving. I would like to say a brief thank you to the people who have worked on this. For me, the small interface changes make a significant difference for usability. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )

[WikimediaMobile] Design research presentation in the August WMF/Wikimedia Activities meeting

Hello Research, Mobile, and Design colleagues, In case other people are interested who didn't attend the August Wikimedia Activities Meeting, there was a design research presentation in the meeting regarding personas of mobile Wikimedia users: https://youtu.be/yZPZmRQnkXU On a related note, I

[WikimediaMobile] In the news: "Your next phone may have an ARM machine learning processor"

In case you're interested: https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/13/your-next-phone-may- have-an-arm-machine-learning-processor/ Pine ___ Mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] A few Reading Web announcements: new header, page previews rollout update, lead section restricted PageImages

Forwarding to Mobile-l. I too like the header change. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Olga Vasileva Date: Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 5:07 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] A few Reading Web announcements: new header, page previews rollout update, lead section

[WikimediaMobile] Open source JPG algorithm that reduces file size by 35%

Perhaps of interest to Mobile and Performance folks: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/03/announcing-guetzli-new-open-source-jpeg.html Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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

Hi Josephine, Thanks for the info. I wonder if it would make sense to promote the Commons app inside of the Wikipedia app. That might be particularly beneficial during Wiki Loves Monuments and other Commons-focused campaigns. However, as Jon pointed out, there are resource constraints with

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

Commons:Mobile access/Mobile upload needing check#Background > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_access/Mobile_upload_needing_check#Background> > > Category:MobileUpload-related deletion requests > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MobileUpload-related_de

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

Hi Josephine, I'm glad to see that work is continuing on the Commons app. Just wondering, is there a chance of creating some kind of link between the Commons app and the Wikipedia app, or maybe even merging them at some point? Thanks, Pine On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:30 AM, Josephine Lim

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

General comment: I uninstalled the Wikipedia Android app awhile ago, as I was using it little and didn't find that it added much value to tasks that are useful to me. A few days ago, shortly before this update, I installed the app again and was pleasantly surprised by how much development had

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia community in Iraq partners with Asiacell to bring Wikipedia to nearly 12 million subscribers free of mobile data charges

Forwarding. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Samantha Lien Date: Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 3:28 AM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] [PRESS RELEASE] Wikimedia community in Iraq partners with Asiacell to bring Wikipedia to nearly 12 million subscribers free of

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

OK, thanks Tilman and Jon. I look forward to seeing the mobile web retention info. Encouraging mobile users to contribute to Wikidata makes sense. I think there could be gamified ways of encouraging contribution to Wikidata in particular, but perhaps also to infoboxes, maps, and Commons.

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

? Does this >> refer to an industry standard (links welcome), or is it more a subjective, >> personal impression? >> >> In any case, thanks for reading the report and sharing your thoughts - >> glad to see that it stimulates metrics-based thinking. >> >> On Tue

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

Thanks Zareen. I'm particularly interested in the mobile app retention percentages, which seem rather low. I wonder if it would make more sense to take all the money and employee hours that are currently being invested in mobile apps, and redirect those resources to mobile web. Pine On Tue, Feb

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Pebble smartwatch tool for finding Wikipedia photo opportunities

Forwarding. Pine -- Forwarded message -- From: Sage Ross Date: Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Pebble smartwatch tool for finding Wikipedia photo opportunities To: Wikimedia Mailing List

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile site is now lazy loading images

Whoops, I missed the link. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/Performance/Lazy_loading_images. Thanks for working on this. Pine On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good to hear. Does this also mean that pages load faster? > >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki-research-l] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

there are a few factors that are hard to overcome some times: > Accepting risks and saying no to safer, more conservative bets, believing > on bigger results later on. And trusting people you appoint to do this to > do a great job. > > One obstacle is that *Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki-research-l] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

, fast, robust interfaces that our readers and contributors enjoy using. Pine On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was thinking along similar lines as Stuart, using OSM to navigate and > encouraging users to take photos of landmarks and other bui

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wiki-research-l] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

encourage people to read or edit wikipedia does not have broad >> support in our communities. >> >> -Toby >> >> >> >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi WMF Mobile and Research, >>> >&

[WikimediaMobile] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

Hi WMF Mobile and Research, I'm wondering if we (mostly meaning "you" but perhaps with external collaborators) have considered how the Wikipedia mobile apps, Wikipedia mobile web, the Wikidata game, and/or the Commons app could borrow some design ideas or features from Pokémon Go to make

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] Tech Talk: Integrating user behavior to design better products: May 31

Perhaps of interest also to a few Maps, Mobile or Wikidata folks. Pine On May 28, 2016 21:37, "Rachel Farrand" wrote: > Please join for the following tech talk: > > *Tech Talk**:* Integrating user behavior to design better products > *Presenter:* Pau Giner > *Date:* May

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.2.146-beta-2016-05-23)

image widening, but the user > may still enable/disable images entirely (in Settings) if there are data > cost concerns on whatever network they currently are. > > > On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 8:17 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Michael,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.2.146-beta-2016-05-23)

ava/android/support/v4/net/ConnectivityManagerCompat.java#37 > > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 1:11 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Stephen, >> >> > No longer force downloading and widening HQ images when on a metered >> connection. >> >>

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.2.146-beta-2016-05-23)

Hi Stephen, > No longer force downloading and widening HQ images when on a metered connection. Thank you. May I ask how the app knows if the device is using a metered connection at any given point in time? Pine On May 24, 2016 09:37, "Stephen Niedzielski" wrote: >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] 12-May-2016 CREDIT, going back to Hangouts on Air/YouTube

FYI, this week's presentations, according to the Etherpad, are: * *Derk-Jan Hartman:* Video.js progress * *Dmitry Brant*: Wikidata infoboxes in Android app * *Joaquin Hernandez*: Vicky chat bot * *Baha*: mobile printing for offline reading * *Monte*: "smart random" content service endpoint *

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [opensource-107] Seattle to host the 2016 OpenStreetMap State of the Map US Conference

(Cross-posting) For Wikimedia folks who are interested in possible collaborations with OSM, now seems like a good time to start thinking about possible presentations. Staff from the Wikimedia Foundation, and/or Wikimedia volunteers from around the US outside of the Seattle area, may want to

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.1.140-beta-2016-02-04)

Thanks Stephen. Questions: 1. Is it possible to disable animations so that the media files consume less bandwidth, CPU, and memory? 2. Does "Media saved in the gallery are now downloaded in their original form and resolution" refer to media files after a user clicks on them? I can imagine that

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.1.140-beta-2016-02-04)

;> Yes! These changes only affect media explicitly downloaded by the user >> (via tapping the save button in the overflow menu). Bandwidth optimized >> images are still shown when paging through the gallery. >> >> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmai

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: Video: Loading Barack Obama on 2G from Spain on a Nexus 5

It took me a moment to realize what you meant by "loading Barack Obama". ;) I like this test. Pine On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:01 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez < jhernan...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Excuse the forward, forgot to add this list... > > -- Forwarded message -- > From:

[WikimediaMobile] "Free Basics" Facebook in India under review by government

For those interested in matters related to WP0 and net neutrality: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35169226 Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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

This page [1] isn't updating in mobile web even with the purge command. The desktop version of the page is current. Any ideas of what's happening here? Thanks, Pine [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/Peacock_butterfly

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

tween them? The >> desktop and mobile versions look the same to me. >> >> Dan >> >> On 15 December 2015 at 14:21, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> This page [1] isn't updating in mobile web even with the purge command. >>> Th

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading department planning for next quarter

diting features for the following quarters. I'm > afraid I don't have the goals URL handy but they should be posting shortly. > However, we realize that editors are also readers and we will also > opportunistically identify activities that help editors (user profiles on > mobile for e

[WikimediaMobile] BBC News: "How mobile tech is improving global disaster relief"

News article: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34715962 I hear about Humanitarian OSM with some frequency. And when the ebola scare was in full swing, Wikipedians (including those in WikiProject Medicine) were working to get accurate information published about the disease in multiple languages.

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

Just wondering, is there a connection between WikiJourney and WikiVoyage? (If nothing else, the similarities in names make me wonder if a trademark review is needed) Cheers, Pine On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Jon Katz wrote: > Excellent, Paul! > >- thanks for the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] BBC News: "How mobile tech is improving global disaster relief"

ping more content for > disasters. One useful bit of data is what sort of topics are people looking > for? If we had country level data for readership of our articles that would > be powerful. > > James > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:53 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: &

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading department planning for next quarter

Hi Moushira, Thank you for these updates. It's great to see a team pushing out their goals for the next quarter for public review. Two questions: 1. How are budgets / resourcing aligned with the tasks shown here? 2. Are there also improvements planned for mobile web and mobile app *editing* for

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.1.135-beta-2015-12-03)

Thanks Stephen. Was this the mobile app version that was shown at Metrics today with the map service that works without GPS? Or is that feature already in production? Pine On Dec 3, 2015 3:53 PM, "Stephen Niedzielski" wrote: > The Android team[0] is happy to announce

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.1.135-beta-2015-12-03)

nd a couple additional minor issues that we may want to fix before > pushing all of this to production, so we may issue an additional beta in > the coming days, prior to releasing to production. Stay tuned. > > > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Banner on ENWP mobile site

We can edit the mobile main page templates? How and where? Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Password alternative for mobile

ot; <aklap...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 00:17 -0700, Pine W wrote: > > Maybe worth considering as an option for mobile Web and mobile apps? > > http://www.komonews.com/news/tech/Yahoos-updated-email-app-aims-to-ki > > ll-the-password-333096981.html > >

[WikimediaMobile] Password alternative for mobile

Maybe worth considering as an option for mobile Web and mobile apps? http://www.komonews.com/news/tech/Yahoos-updated-email-app-aims-to-kill-the-password-333096981.html Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Pageview drop

By the way, what about unique visitors (compared to number of sessions and number of pageviews)? And can we track unique visitors across devices? Pine On Oct 14, 2015 11:04 AM, "Jon Katz" wrote: > Great question, Luis, and something we should dig into. I'll add it to > the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

Cool. Pine On Oct 8, 2015 8:05 AM, "Jon Katz" wrote: > 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: > >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Some interesting stuff from Google

And, upon rereading Bryan's most recent email, I'm not sure that I'm interpreting it correctly, which probably means that I should be quiet and listen to those who know more about this subject than I do. Pine On Oct 8, 2015 4:32 PM, "Pine W" <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > A

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Some interesting stuff from Google

PM, "Bryan Davis" <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Bryan, > > > > Ah, I was thinking of the 2 different mobile web editing experiences > (not 2 > > different apps) fo

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Some interesting stuff from Google

8, 2015 12:56 PM, "Bryan Davis" <bd...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > We currently have at least 6 channels, I believe: > > > > 1. Desktop Web > > 2. Mobile Web > > 3. Androi

[WikimediaMobile] Front page on mobile interfaces

This NYT article makes me wonder if ITN, DYK, and/or POTD should be included on the homepage for our mobile interfaces, in an effort to increase readership: http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/publiceditor/2015/09/18/as-print-fades-part-2-push-alerts-bring-readership-and-sometimes-annoyance/ Pine

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

Thanks Tilman. Is it possible for to get ENWP-only stats for August 2015? The last data for ENWP pageviews on stats.wikimedia.org is from July. A breakdown of ENWP stats into mobile and desktop would also be helpful. Pine On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Tilman Bayer

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

'mobile app' AND >> user_agent_map['os_family'] = 'iOS',view_count,0))/SUM(view_count) >> FROM wmf.pageview_hourly WHERE year = 2015 AND month = 8 AND day > 19 >> AND day < 27 AND zero_carrier IS NOT NULL; >> >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Pine W <wiki.p..

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

OK, thanks! Pine On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 31 August 2015 at 15:01, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Does "ceasing active support" include ceasing security updates, or will >> those con

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

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: I think I can get this in Hadoop. Will get back on thread. On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Just to check: what percentage of Wikipedia Zero users are running Android legacy OS versions

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

Just to check: what percentage of Wikipedia Zero users are running Android legacy OS versions? Pine On Aug 27, 2015 12:49 PM, Stephen Niedzielski sniedziel...@wikimedia.org wrote: The WMF Android App team will be ceasing active support for older devices soon, namely devices that run Android

Re: [WikimediaMobile] How long are mobile edits?

Wikimetrics kind of does this, but I think that mobile and desktop are in a single indistinguishable bucket. Pinging Jaime Anstee who might know who to ask about adding the ability to segregate mobile edits. Pine On Aug 9, 2015 11:15 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Cross-Post: Editing + Reading Meeting Notes

Adam, I'm happy to hear that VE is coming to mobile web. I'd like to know more about what the plans are for user testing of VE on mobile. Would that happen in late Q2 at the earliest, and how much emphasis will there be on user testing mobile VE while it's in beta? My prime interest is in making

[WikimediaMobile] Apps for Kindle and Windows

Hi Mobilizers, 1. Do you think it would make sense to develop a Wikipedia app for Kindle, or to encourage Amazon to do so or financially sponsor its development? 2. Same questions for Windows and Microsoft, especially considering the Windows 10 launch. Thanks, Pine

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Apps for Kindle and Windows

to support Wikipedia app development for Windows with Microsoft financing or in-kind contribution of developer time. Any thoughts? Pine On Jul 25, 2015 6:08 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mobilizers, 1. Do you

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

-out-a-redesigned-mobile-app/ On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Dmitry. Is WMF Comms going to market product updates like this? One item of feedback on the Strategic Plan was a request for a Wikipedia app, suggesting a lack of public awareness about

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

are and will they continue to use the app once it is installed. It's important for us to understand how our readers will react to such banners before we make larger scale commitments. -Toby On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dmitry, How about promoting the app

[WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia apps pre-installations

Hi Mobile folks, Any progress on this, particularly with any of the largest phone and tablet manufacturers and resellers? Thanks, Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

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

Thanks Dmitry. Is WMF Comms going to market product updates like this? One item of feedback on the Strategic Plan was a request for a Wikipedia app, suggesting a lack of public awareness about the existing apps. Pine On Jul 8, 2015 7:30 AM, Dmitry Brant dbr...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile MediaViewer and the Seattle Japanese Garden

. There is a task and a change for it, see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101718 I hope that's what you're looking for :) Best, Florian Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com To: mobile-l mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org, multime...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject

[WikimediaMobile] Mobile MediaViewer and the Seattle Japanese Garden

English Wikipedia's Seattle Japanese Garden article looks good in the Android app, and the MediaViewer-like slideshow feature works well for the gallery. However, I'm unable to scroll through the photos in Mobile Web like I csn using the Android app. Are there any plans to add the slideshow

[WikimediaMobile] Usability of the hamburger icon

BBC article for those who are interested: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31602745 Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l

[WikimediaMobile] Android app question

Hi, I see what Dan means about quick load times on the Android mobile app. Cool. When I navigate to articles, the app sometimes seems to open to a random section of the freshly loaded articles. Any ideas about why this happens? Thanks, Pine ___

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Google rankings and mobile phone support`

Hi Gerard, Yes, I saw this news as well. Check out these results: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=www.wikipedia.org https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=en.wikipedia.org

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

, warming our first steps toward knowing how much we do not know.* *—Catherine Munro* On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 14 April 2015 at 21:09, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: And, Dan is busy working on converting many of those 6,000,000 into active

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Commons Reloaded

And, Dan is busy working on converting many of those 6,000,000 into active editors. Right, Dan? (: By the way, is there a graph somewhere that shows the growth of Mobile Web and Mobile Apps edits and active editors? Thanks! Pine *This is an Encyclopedia* https://www.wikipedia.org/ *One

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

I've been quiey about this discussion because I see Dan's point, on the other hand I think there should to be a better solution than hiding content in this way. I like Aude's idea of experimenting with a user preference for a collapsable div. Pine On Apr 9, 2015 12:13 AM, aude aude.w...@gmail.com

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

Ok, thanks all for the replies. Does the mobile web team participate on this email list, or is this list only for mobile apps? It seems like I see lots of mobile apps people here but no one that I can quickly identify on-list as representing mobile web. Pine

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

, Mar 22, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: I've split this off because it has the potential to derail the other conversation about Wikidata descriptions. On 22 March 2015 at 09:53, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: I do wonder if it would be better to focus on encouraging

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

Hi Dan, I understand the goals here but the resource requirements surprise me: The proposer of this project estimates that the following resources are the minimum required to achieve this goal: * 2 FTE iOS engineers * 2 FTE Android engineers * 1.5 FTE user-experience designers * 1 FTE product

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

February 2015 at 17:18, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: * What is the thinking behind having mobile apps instead of focusing resources 100% on mobile web? I think that's the wrong way of framing the question. Most companies with a mobile presence heavily prefer people to use their app instead

[WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

Do site banners appear on mobile apps and mobile web? I can't recall seeing one. With the growth in mobile, I hope that mobile apps and mobile web will support site banners for important notifications such as Wiki Loves Monuments. Thanks, Pine *This is an Encyclopedia*

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Site banners on Mobile

a very small team, building this API and hooking the apps into it isn't a priority right now. Thanks, Dan On 5 February 2015 at 13:48, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Do site banners appear on mobile apps and mobile web? I can't recall seeing one. With the growth in mobile, I hope

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Chinese Wikipedia

Very interesting, thanks. I believe that Stephen LaPorte had a role in creating Listen to Wikipedia, so I'm including him in this email thread with the hope that he will be pleased to hear about this use of his work (: Pine On Nov 23, 2014 4:20 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I

[WikimediaMobile] MediaViewer on mobile

Hi Multimedia and mobile folks, I have found that I like MV on mobile, particularly when browsing galleries. I have a request. While I can zoom in on an image that is loaded in MV on mobile, I can't pan the zoomed image. Is that a feature in the queue? Thanks, Pine *This is an Encyclopedia*

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MediaViewer on mobile

feature in the apps. Thanks, Dan On 20 October 2014 11:27, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Multimedia and mobile folks, I have found that I like MV on mobile, particularly when browsing galleries. I have a request. While I can zoom in on an image that is loaded in MV on mobile, I can't

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Collapsing sections in app

for the feedback! -Monte *(For me easier came down to how many touch gestures I had to do to find what I was looking for. So, one tap or swipe gesture was easier than 4 or 6.) On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:22 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 20 October 2014 09:57, Pine W wiki.p

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Nearby love

+1. Thank you Mobile Team. Pine On Oct 19, 2014 8:33 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Since we released Nearby on Android, there's been a lot of positive reviews flooding in! See some of them below. People are using Nearby when they're out and about, to learn more about what's near

[WikimediaMobile] Android Nearby Feature

I have a lot on my plate so I can't test this feature very much right now, but I want to say thank you for responding to community requests for this feature. Pine ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Thinking about offline search within our native apps

Sage, I believe that this has just been patched. Hopefully this fix will be rolled out to users soon. Pine On Oct 1, 2014 8:36 AM, Sage Ross s...@ragesoss.com wrote: From a user POV, a good first step would be to make section redirects work on mobile. On apps and mobile web, in contrast to

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Individual Engagement Grant funding available

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/IEG_Round_Two_-_2014/ru Pine On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:16 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding from Siko Bouterse: Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments

Re: [WikimediaMobile] iOS 8 / iPhone 6 update analysis

Dan, may I quote you on BASH? And speaking of device configurations, are you designing mobile apps or mobile web for watches? Pine On Sep 10, 2014 1:36 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 10 September 2014 12:10, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: And iOS people thought they

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Jobs page doesn't work

I guess we need to hire them to fix the mobile web job page! Pine On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Moiz Syed ms...@wikimedia.org wrote: Our jobs page doesn't work on mobile web. I was trying to send someone this page for the mobile web job and it wasn't good experience. This is the first

[WikimediaMobile] Individual Engagement Grant funding available

Forwarding from Siko Bouterse: Greetings! The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG Your idea can improve Wikimedia projects by building a new tool or

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New Wikipedia Android app production release

wrote: On 15 August 2014 13:58, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way of including text-to-speech as a menu item in the app? Perhaps, but as I stated before that would not be in keeping with the design patterns of the platform. The OS itself handles this already, and it would

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New Wikipedia Android app production release

Ok, thanks. (: Pine On Aug 15, 2014 3:04 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 15 August 2014 14:40, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe I'm being unclear. I'm asking if we could link to the OS's text to speech app, or link to where the app can be downloaded. Otherwise some

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New Wikipedia Android app production release

Hi, still waiting for someone to follow up. Thanks, Pine On Aug 8, 2014 11:07 PM, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Android Mobilisers, I updated the app but when I search for Wikipedia Signpost I am still taken to the top of the Wikipedia Community article instead of the Media section

[WikimediaMobile] Article history and categories

Any chance of including these links in the Android mobile app and in mobile web? Categories are the subject of a current IEG research project and their omission from mobile might be significant. Article history can be accessed in mobile web through the strapline, but not at all in the mobile

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New Wikipedia Android app production release

Hi Android Mobilisers, I updated the app but when I search for Wikipedia Signpost I am still taken to the top of the Wikipedia Community article instead of the Media section. I like the today icon. I'm curious, why is that a today icon instead of home or main page? I just discovered the share

[WikimediaMobile] Lila's keynote speech at Wikimania 2014

Hi all, I would like to encourage those of us who may have missed Lila's keynote speech at Wikimania to listen to it. [1] In her speech, Lila takes a long view of Wikimedia's history and future. She talks about incremental and disruptive changes that are happening socially and technologically

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Unable to edit in Mobile

this content you must edit the template target. Kind regards Florian Gesendet mit meinem HTC - Reply message - Von: Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com An: florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de Betreff: [WikimediaMobile] Unable to edit in Mobile Datum: So., Aug. 3, 2014 09:04 Hi, then in this case

[WikimediaMobile] Unable to edit in Mobile

I get a network error when I try to edit on the Android app, and on moble web only a small section loads in the edit window of the Signpost article I want to edit, but I can read articles ok. Did something break for mobile editing? Thanks, Pine ___

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Requests for Android app enhancements

Hi Bernd, As a user, I would prefer to have all Wikimedia sites accessible within the app. Is that on the dev roadmap? You are correct about the Signpost spaghetti, my apologies. Is it possible to locate all 3 menu buttons on the right side of the search bar? The current setup is a bit awkward,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Requests for Android app enhancements

editors is an organisation-wide and is useful a quantitative measure in spite of its weakness. Our goal is to increase the number of active editors! So, responses in-line! On 28 July 2014 14:40, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: * Full text search functionality We're thinking about getting

[WikimediaMobile] Thank you Mobile team

While we're talking about technology issues on WIkimedia-l, I'd like to say that now that I've worked my way over a few speedbumps with mobile editing I'm happy with the direction that mobile editing is going, so thank you Mobile team. Pine ___ Mobile-l

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile editing issues

have shown that I was logged out if that was true. Pine On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey Pine, Responses in-line. On 5 July 2014 11:13, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote: * When editing with images disabled on my mobile device, the icons

[WikimediaMobile] Mobile editing issues

Hi, * When editing with images disabled on my mobile device, the icons for editing don't appear. Is there a plan to have text replacements for the icons when images are disabled and/or for readers who are visually impaired and rely on text? * In the Wikimedia mobile app I appear to be logged in