Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Update] Browser tests per patch

2015-06-25 Thread Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
Awesome stuff. On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't been able to use verified yet - I think this is a permission that Barry doesn't have. I'm experimenting with him doing no score reviews right now rather than +1s for good patches. The -1s are

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Notes from performance meeting: PERFecting the reading experience

2015-06-25 Thread Adam Baso
Moving this discussion to mobile-l. Ori, are you on mobile-l? Let's also be mindful to model (client side or router rate limiting is easiest) realistic connection scenarios (i.e., 2G and 3G and clogged wifi connections). Shaving off 3-4 seconds on fast connections makes a world of difference, and

Re: [WikimediaMobile] The path to video: media playback for the iOS app

2015-06-25 Thread Monte Hurd
Brion this is so exciting! :) On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:53 PM, Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org wrote: We've been stalled for years on adding media playback to the Wikipedia iOS app due to the impasse between Wikimedia's insistence on free formats and Apple's insistence on only supporting

[WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [Ops] How Flickr improved image scaler performance

2015-06-25 Thread Adam Baso
Cross posting. Really neat stuff! -Adam -- Forwarded message -- From: Timo Tijhof ttij...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 10:05 AM Subject: [Ops] How Flickr improved image scaler performance To: ops Wikimedia List o...@lists.wikimedia.org Flickr shared their story

Re: [WikimediaMobile] The path to video: media playback for the iOS app

2015-06-25 Thread Corey Floyd
Brion - have a question about existing OGG players: Currently there is an iOS framework called VLCKit (https://wiki.videolan.org/VLCKit/) by the VideoLan crew that appears to handle OGG/WebM and seems to be under active development. It is also being used in several shipping apps (including the VLC

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading-wmf] Improving Privacy Policy on Mobile

2015-06-25 Thread Adam Baso
Moving to mobile-l. Discuss. -Adam On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 10:05 PM, Jon Robson jrob...@wikimedia.org wrote: cc. reading-list. You'll get more feedback there :) Short reply: There are lots of bugs and larger problems here that need to be solved. On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Jacob

[WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.0.104-beta-2015-06-25)

2015-06-25 Thread Stephen Niedzielski
The Android team[0] is proud to announce a new Wikipedia Android app beta release, v2.0.104-beta-2015-06-25[1]. In summary, this revision contains the following enhancements: * New: Tabbed browsing! Press-and-hold links to open in a new tab. * New: Big images in articles! * New: Enable

Re: [WikimediaMobile] The path to video: media playback for the iOS app

2015-06-25 Thread Brion Vibber
I've been looking at MobileVLCKit for some time actually, including submitting build script patches to make it easier to build as a framework and getting help from the VLC devs to make a stripped-down build option without the default proprietary codecs. There are a few key things that have led me