I agree. It should be pulled from both the store and disabled on
translatewiki.net.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Monte Hurd <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think it should be pulled.
>
> On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Dan Garry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 6 September 2014 15:40, Derk-Jan Hartman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I propose we remove the Wikimedia Commons app from the store.
>> Clearly there is no time available to work on it, there is no one
>> maintaining it or following up on the problems that have been reported
>> since 2013.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Practically speaking, maintaining this app would mean cannibalising
> resources currently devoted to the Wikipedia app. Brion and Yuvi are the
> engineers with the most experience in the Commons app. They're currently
> split a few different ways (Brion with his duties as an architect, Yuvi
> with duties to ops) and I'm not eager to split them even further.
>
> Some framing on userbases: The Commons Android app is installed on around
> 7,000 devices, compared to the 10 million devices with the Wikipedia app
> installed on it. The Commons app gets around 300 users per month, and there
> are more edits than that from the Wikipedia app per day to the English
> Wikipedia alone. The Commons app user base is minuscule compared to the
> Wikipedia app.
>
> Remember that sunsetting the app and removing it from the store would not
> uninstall it from the devices it's currently installed on, so those people
> using it would be able to do so. Also, the code would continue to be
> available, so if someone wanted to clean it up as a volunteer we could then
> re-publish it easily enough.
>
> So, in summary, I agree with DJ.
>
> Thoughts, team?
>
> Dan
>
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> Dan Garry
> Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps
> Wikimedia Foundation
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