Re: [WikimediaMobile] maps w/ nearby

2015-05-27 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Current state of affairs: https://karta.wmflabs.org/static/ is up and running, and should have all the data soon. It uses mapbox stack, which means that it generates vector data tiles, and creates a PNG tiles on the fly. This also means that in a few days, you will be able to view WebGL based

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero editing

2015-05-04 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
CCing Dan. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi, Is Wikipedia Zero only for reading, or for editing, too? I noticed this Twitter conversation today: https://twitter.com/thornet/status/594837690778034176 It says that it's only for

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia Zero editing

2015-05-04 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Before Dan replies more fully: Editing is possible, but since it requires HTTPS connection, it will not be free for telco partners who use URL-based whitelisting instead of IP-based. In those cases, we attempt to warn users of the possible charges. On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Yuri Astrakhan

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Collections is more popular than watchlist... so far ; -)

2015-04-21 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Jon, just to clarify, wouldn't this query also work? Seems easier to write. Also, where do you run it? I would love to play with it some day. SELECT event_name, count(1) count FROM MobileWebMainMenuClickTracking_11568715 WHERE event_mobileMode = 'beta' AND wiki = 'enwiki' GROUP

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Gather - owner

2015-03-30 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Since we have the User object for the collection owner, we could include owner's gender as one of the parameters for that message. On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I've replied on the bug with some ideas... let's continue the conversation there :-) On 29

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Ops] Deploying Gather to enwiki on Monday

2015-03-25 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Anomie, thanks for the review! Inline... API documentation is severely lacking, see http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=helpmodules=editlist|query+listpages|query+lists http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=helpmodules=editlist%7Cquery+listpages%7Cquery+lists

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

2015-02-02 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Don't preload apps still get over-the-air updates, often the whole app re-download? On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:39 AM, Carolynne Schloeder cschloe...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi, yes app size and yes optimization :-) App size does matter OEM's are sensitive to the size of the app for preload.

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

2015-01-31 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
I also like the idea, but I think Android is a much better initial target, as it is much more common in the low bandwidth market from what I gathered. On Jan 31, 2015 8:52 AM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: Love the idea, and I agree with everything Monte said. We might also need

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Opera Mini JavaScript question

2014-07-29 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
up on a lot of scripted functionality. It does execute the onload event for upto 5 seconds, so you could try using that. If you're open to sharing your code, I could try and help. Best regards, Gautam Chandna +47 4567 1789 Sent from my iPhone On 28 Jul 2014, at 20:45, Yuri

[WikimediaMobile] Opera Mini JavaScript question

2014-07-28 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Hi, I'm running into an opera mini strangeness. I have a script src=... tag inside body, which is suppose to return document.write(some HTML); This works fine except on opera mini, which does not seem to even call the server, because I looked at server:source and saw the unsubstituted script tag.

[WikimediaMobile] Zero JsonConfig on Vagrant

2014-07-01 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
vagrant now has a zero role: $ vagrant enable-role zero Also,JsonConfig has also received a role: $ vagrant enable-role jsonconfig Ping me if you have any questions. ___ Mobile-l mailing list Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [zero] reducing image quality

2014-03-25 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Today Faidon replied on IRC: ...I'm pretty much against moving forward with this unless the simplify RFChttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Simplify_thumbnail_cachegets implemented... That RFC was created in 2013-10-07 (5+ months ago), and has not been finalized nor have I found

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikitech-l] Wikipedia App Reboots, HTTPS, and Wikipedia Zero (was Re: Wikimedia Commons mobile photo uploader app updated on iOS and Android)

2014-03-12 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Thanks Adam for driving it and getting it done :) On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Adam Baso ab...@wikimedia.org wrote: Okay, HTTPS contributory features are now introduced on the Wikipedia Zero mobile web experience for operators that zero-rate HTTPS. Thanks Brandon Black and Yuri

[WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
I was looking at the page sizes, and noticed that the wikipedia.icohttp://bits.wikimedia.org/favicon/wikipedia.ico file is 15KB, which is about 14% of the average m. page size. Unfortunatelly, this download is not reported by either firefox or chrome dev tools due to know

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Performance: 15KB wikipedia.ico file

2014-02-11 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
FYI, a good ICO optimization article from 2 years ago: http://zoompf.com/blog/2012/04/instagram-and-optimizing-favicons Brion, it showed up in my history tab - I don't know when that got populated, but i am guessing at the same time as i went to the site, because otherwise it wouldn't have shown

[WikimediaMobile] Mobile starting page design for Zero users

2013-12-06 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Zero http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero team would like to be more involved with the community, and discuss the functionality of the Zero starting page. For Zero users, when visiting m.wikipedia.org, we have to show a custom start page tailored to the specific mobile provider. A

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Mobile starting page design for Zero users

2013-12-06 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
: On 12/06/2013 11:44 PM, Yuri Astrakhan wrote: A typical startup page has a custom banner, e.g. Free Wikipedia provided by [Company], and a list of common languages in that country. I realize this is merely a minor aspect and might trigger a tedious debate, but Free Wikipedia is far from

[WikimediaMobile] Where to redirect m.wikipedia.org?

2013-12-05 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
http://m.wikipedia.org used to be a hard-coded redirect to English en.m.wikipedia.org, except for the users in the Zero program. We now have an ability to have complex redirection for that domain. How do you think m.wikipedia.org should behave? We could redirect m. to ... * the current

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia Zero in Google search result

2013-05-28 Thread Yuri Astrakhan
Does it make sense to get rid of zero altogether? We could keep zero for the known IP ranges of our partners, but for everyone else do an automatic redirect to m? And yes, I think we should get rid of m too, but that's a separate discussion. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Adam Baso