Some very positive press coverage right now: - http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/15/wikipedia-bets-big-on-photos-with-its-updated-mobile-app/ - http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/15/wikipedia-rolls-out-a-redesigned-mobile-app/ - http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/01/15/wikipedias-android-app-updated-better-reading-experience/ - http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/15/wikipedia-updates-android-app-material-inspired-ui-better-search/ - http://www.androidcentral.com/wikipedia-app-grabs-ton-features-their-material-design-update
And some vital statistics. Bear in mind this is in the 2.5 hours the app's been live! - 3,802 users have seen a read more panel already. 763 have clicked on one of the results. - 1,772 users have used the image viewer (I had to update this, by the time I got to the end of the email it had gone up to 1,649!) Good reviews coming in: - "Last excellent version with a dark theme for night reading. Material design welcome" - "Real chic .... above about the article is now a picture and now looks really great. An improved image display is now at the start :)" - "Indispensable After the last update is stupendous" Excellent work, team! Dan On 15 January 2015 at 13:08, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote: > Our latest update to the official Wikipedia Android app is now available > on the Google Play Store! [1] Here's a high-level overview of the features > introduced in this release: > > * Lead images -- When navigating to an article, the app now displays the > most relevant image from the article at the very top, with the image > expanded to fit the width of your screen, and the title of the article > overlaid onto it. > > * Image gallery -- Tap on any image in an article (including the lead > image) to see a full-screen gallery where the image may be panned and > zoomed. You may also "swipe" left and right to browse through other images > that are part of the article. There are also options, accessible from the > toolbar on the top right, for sharing the image to your favorite social > media apps, saving it directly to your device, showing miscellaneous > information (Exif) about the image, and navigating to its File: page on > Wikipedia. > > * Descriptions from Wikidata -- The app is now integrated with Wikidata > [2] to provide quick descriptions next to search results, as well as in > Nearby results, in disambiguation links, and in further reading suggestions. > > * Search enhancements -- We have improved the search experience > (accessible from the top toolbar) to intelligently incorporate search > results from title-only searches, as well as full-text searches, so that > typing a search term will give you the most relevant result. > > * Disambiguation and "page issues" links have been improved and restyled. > * Suggestions for further reading are provided at the bottom of articles. > * Infoboxes and other tables contained in articles are now collapsed by > default. > * The toolbar at the top has been restyled to follow the new Material > Design guidelines introduced in Android 5.0. > * When editing, templates are shown in a different color to help > differentiate between the template and regular text. > > Enjoy! > > -- > Dmitry Brant > Mobile Apps Team (Android) > Wikimedia Foundation > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering > > [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia > [2] http://wikidata.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > > -- Dan Garry Associate Product Manager, Mobile Apps Wikimedia Foundation
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