Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia for iOS named an Editor's Choice

This is really impressive and represents a lot of great work. Congratulations to the iOS team! -Toby On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 06:36 wrote: > Way to go team iOS !  > > > On Oct 27, 2017 at 4:00 PM, > wrote: > > Congrats!!! > > On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 3:58 PM, Ramsey Isler

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia v5.6.0 for iOS released to TestFlight

Thanks iOS team! A few of the nice touches in this release: 1. Night/sepia mode 2. Roll of the dice for Random 3. Timeline is super interesting -- I can see a lot of rabbit-holing[1] here :) -Toby [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rabbit_hole_illustration.png On Mon, Jul

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Image recognition app scans paintings to act like Shazam for art

Thanks Andy -- I'll bump Alex Stinson who works with museums and other institutions. It might have some interesting intersections with structured data on commons. -Toby On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 3:34 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: > This is interesting, and something we could

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Analytics] Readership metrics for the timespan until December 4, 2016

Thank you so much for this Zareen! It's really great to see this report -- so much interesting data to think about! -Toby On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Zareen Farooqui wrote: > Hi all, > > This resumes the usual look >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] editing smaller headings

Hi Amir - I can't speak to the specifics of the edit button but we are investigating mobile editing in the app along with the collaboration team this quarter[1] for wikidata descriptions. This will include work on some fundamental issues (notifications for one) that will (hopefully) open the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New Android production release

Second that - great work Android team and volunteers - the app just gets better and better! -Toby On Monday, October 3, 2016, Jon Katz wrote: > Congratulations, team! It looks great. > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Dmitry Brant

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia for iOS 5.0.5 released to App Store

Congrats iOS folks -- a good day for apps indeed! -Toby On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Joshua Minor wrote: > Hello mobile wikimedians, > > Big day for Wikipedia apps. First, big congrats to the Android team on > today's awesome update! > > On iOS, after a long beta

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Android Wikipedia beta app release (2.3.148-beta-2016-07-18)

Congratulations Android team! The feed is an awesome addition to the app. I'm looking forward to the production release! -Toby On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Orsolya Gyenes < gyenes.orso...@wiki.media.hu> wrote: > WOW! > > You guys deserve a BIG applaud, this is definitely amazing! > > We've

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile Wikipedia, Commons, Wikidata, and Pokémon

Hi Pine -- did you have any specific ideas? I spent some time in the gaming industry and am familiar with Ingress, the game that Pokeman Go is based on, as well as the theories behind mechanics/compulsion loops that mobile games use. I'll share one general thought -- the research-edit-publish

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Cross-post: Today's CREDIT showcase - video

Thanks Adam and all who demo'd. Great to see some community members on here as well. -Toby On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Adam Baso wrote: > In case you don't follow wikitech-l. > > -Adam > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Adam Baso

Re: [WikimediaMobile] iOS Release Candidate

Hi Sjoerd -- just a quick note; your translations have been submitted to the app store with 5.0.1. Thanks again! -Toby On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:21 AM, Sjoerd de Bruin wrote: > Hello, > > I've just did some translations and I'm worried these won't be included in > the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Someone please announce/explain T119235 (RESTBase for Wiktionary)

To keep the archives happy, Nemo has asked that we provide some documentation to REST API for en-wiktionary and I asked that we get it scheduled. -Toby On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > All my requests were ignored: >

Re: [WikimediaMobile] MobileFrontend+Wikibase security patch

Thanks for the quick response everybody. -Toby On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Jon Robson wrote: > A security vulnerability has been discovered in MediaWiki setups which > use both Wikibase and MobileFrontend. > > All projects in the Wikimedia cluster have been since

Re: [WikimediaMobile] New iOS app: "Curiosity Shows You Useful Wikipedia Articles Right When You Need Them"

Thanks Tilman. It's nice to see apps using Wikipedia data. My personal favorite is FieldTrip[1] which is basically the same thing as Curiousity but with more data sources[2]. Since Curiousity is charging for the app, it would be nice to see them contribute back to projects in some way. -Toby

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Reading department planning for next quarter

Thanks Pine -- the team appreciates public discussion on our plans! 1. Budgeting: You can see how we map strategic goals against the teams from the Roadmap document above and then refer to the annual plan docs to get an idea of relative investment. A couple of caveats -- sometimes the activities

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Android application]Project WikiJourney

Hi Paul -- Are you asking for some sort of code or architecture review for your application? Best, -Toby On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Paul Arzelier wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently developing, with some friends, an application called > WikiJourney to promote « free »

[WikimediaMobile] Reading goals for the quarter.

Hi Everyone -- Our goals for Fiscal Year Q2 (Oct - Dec) are up on the wiki. Apologies for this taking so long. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2015-16_Q2_Goals#Reading Please let us know if you have any questions. -Toby ___

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New Android production release

Totally -- very excited to see the community input! Thanks all. Also happy to see iteration on link preview -- interested to see if that improves the experience for our readers. Nice work everyone! -Toby On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Florian Schmidt < florian.schmidt.wel...@t-online.de>

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Wmfall] Tilman is joining the Reading Team!

Welcome Tilman! We're excited to have you on the team! (and I love the report :) On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Stephen Niedzielski < sniedziel...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Congrats! > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Jacob Rogers > wrote: > >> Congratulations, Tilman!

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

Thanks Bryan and Pine. My feeling is that there are many many new interfaces and form factors emerging right now and we should be cautious about adoption. For example Facebook's instant articles, apple news and even snapchat have similar offerings the AMP. They all seem to be focusing on article

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Some interesting stuff from Google

ok like we're in a world where the number of front ends > is going to get smaller any time soon. > > Luis > > On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Toby Negrin <tneg...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> Thanks Bryan and Pine. >> >> My feeling is that there are many many

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Fwd: [reading-wmf] interesting topic readouts

...@wikimedia.org wrote: Fun visualizations! -- Forwarded message -- From: Toby Negrin tneg...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:58 AM Subject: [reading-wmf] interesting topic readouts snip https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Statistics/Wikipedia

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Wikipedia apps pre-installations

Thanks Adam. Hi Pine -- we'll be as open as we can about such partnerships but keep in mind that the world of carriers and device manufacturers is very different in terms of communications than ours. It's unlikely that any partner we have will allow us to share information before the press

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] New Android production release

Hi Pine -- Thanks for the suggestion! We are in fact planning on running a test where we prompt app installations via banner to a small audience -- we'd like to understand how effective these banners are and will they continue to use the app once it is installed. It's important for us to

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app bug report template

Should we link from the app itself? On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org wrote: Toby, This is on mobile-l. Did you have any other distribution list in mind? Cheers, Bernd On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:14 PM, Toby Negrin tneg...@wikimedia.org wrote: Nice Bernd

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Android app bug report template

Nice Bernd -- is this appropriate to share with community? -Toby On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Jon Katz jk...@wikimedia.org wrote: awesome, Bernd! On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:07 AM, Bernd Sitzmann be...@wikimedia.org wrote: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104086 is a bug report

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Mobile-Apps' Unbreak now tasks in Phabricator

Thanks Brian -- I just pinged Monte since his name was on them. -Toby On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Brian Gerstle bgers...@wikimedia.org wrote: I closed the iOS ones, which were already in the Done column in Phab 2 sprints ago. Sorry for the confusion, still grappling w/ task state

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [reading web] Phabricating in Q1

I don't have a ton of direct feedback on this except that the documentation is great. I still need to go ask people about where to find things and I can imagine if I'm confused, other people, particularly in the community are confused as well. It's hard to balance the needs of developers with

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [video club] RailsConf 2015 - Implementing a Strong Code Review Culture

Thanks for posting this Sam -- code review is one of the best parts of our engineering culture, I'll definitely watch this when I get a chance. -Toby On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Sam Smith samsm...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey y'all, I watch a lot of talks in my downtime. I even post the

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Skins Usage Data

And just to be clear -- everybody who has browsed the site but has not logged in (i.e. the vast majority of our readers) will be using Vector? thanks for putting this together. -Toby On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:16 AM,

Re: [WikimediaMobile] iOS Beta 4.1.5 available for testing

Hi Corey -- what's the version #? 4.1.5(143)? On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:11 AM, Corey Floyd cfl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey everyone, we have a new iOS release in the hopper. If you are part of the beta channel, you can download the new version using Apple's TestFlight. If you would like to

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Task/bug naming conventions

I've always used enhancement for this purpose -- does phabricator actually support this? On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Gergo Tisza gti...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, I would like to recommend a naming convention that clearly differentiates between existing and wanted behavior. This is

Re: [WikimediaMobile] iOS 4.1.4 is live

Nice work! Just downloaded and I'm impressed with the performance as well as the polish. Keep up the good work! -Toby On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Corey Floyd cfl...@wikimedia.org wrote: This version has a lot of visual updates, performance improvements, and bug fixes - we even tweaked

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [iOS][Apps] Wikipedia Mobile 4.1.3 for iOS

Congrats team -- great work. -Toby On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Corey Floyd cfl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey everyone… The latest for iOS is live on the app store. You can download it here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8 We are continuing our quest to

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

making data free. More info in our QR notes. On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 1 February 2015 at 14:48, Toby Negrin tneg...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dan -- can you please limit the scope to sizing the android app? I think that's more relevant

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Luis van Ahn/crowdsourcing

mpinc...@wikimedia.org wrote: We've been talking about this guy for ages (and I think roughly half the mobile team uses Duolingo at this point) – wasn't someone going to try to put us in touch? :) On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Toby Negrin tneg...@wikimedia.org wrote: Some interesting

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app?

@lists.wikimedia.org, Carolynne Schloeder cschloe...@wikimedia.org, Toby Negrin tneg...@wikimedia.org, Lila Tretikov l...@wikimedia.org Betreff: [WikimediaMobile] [Apps] Wikipedia Lite app? Datum: Sa., Jan. 31, 2015 06:45 Hi everyone, Those of you who were at the Mobile quarterly review heard me mention

[WikimediaMobile] Luis van Ahn/crowdsourcing

Some interesting links from one of the early crowdsourcing people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_von_Ahn http://www.ted.com/talks/luis_von_ahn_massive_scale_online_collaboration?language=en His current gig: https://www.duolingo.com/ -Toby ___

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Analytics] Eventlogging for editing broken

Let's give the database the time it needs to replicate and perform needed validation before we start troubleshooting other issues. I'm concerned that too many things are going on here. Thanks to everyone who is working on this right now. -Toby On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jon Robson

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Definition of Pageview for the API

+ Maryana/Oliver We're pulling some data for the Metrics meeting this Thursday that you should be aware of. It's one of the first steps in unraveling how to define a pageview (or other engagement/reach metrics) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Mobile_Metrics#Datasets_and_deliverables

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Definition of Pageview for the API

already handling the two-API-requests problem (they request different sections, so it's trivial to uniformly exclude one kind). On 28 April 2014 13:36, Toby Negrin tneg...@wikimedia.org wrote: + Maryana/Oliver We're pulling some data for the Metrics meeting this Thursday that you should be aware

Re: [WikimediaMobile] [Analytics] X-Analytics

Thanks Arthur On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Arthur Richards aricha...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I've responded. On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Jon Robson jdlrob...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know the answer to this question on the extension talk page? If so could you reply?

Re: [WikimediaMobile] Browser statistics for mobile

Thanks Tomasz -- for reference, we're using this wiki page to track the mobile data requests. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Epics/Metrics_about_Mobile_Usage Feedback on the report formats/contents would be great. We're reasonably close to getting the data feeds in place. thanks,