This is now complete. --tomasz
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a heads up that the Wikimedia Mobile team is going to be un- > publishing the WLM app from the Google Play store. > > Practically this means that you will no longer be able download the WLM > app from the market. You *will* still be able to download all previous > releases from : > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mobile/Release_history#Apps > > This change will not affect any of our current users. > > Why are we doing this? The app was specifically crafted and resourced with > an expiration date of the WLM contest. Now that WLM has fully wrapped up > we'd like to take what we've learned and apply all of our energy to meeting > our annual goal of 1,000 photo uploads / month. In order to do this we need > to take what we've learned from the WLM app and channel it into a more > generic mobile web and app experience. This requires us to free up > resources that would be supporting the app for bug fixes, legal updates, > etc. > > What does this mean to the existing users? Nothing much. The mobile team > put in a redirect so that the app works with the tool server now. That will > make it so that no existing users are interrupted for the life time of the > TS. > > As the mobile team executes on the next six months were keenly interested > in building solutions that can easily work for WLM in the future. > > Stay update with what were working on by following the engineering report: > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2012/October#Mobile > > --tomasz > >
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