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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