Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-06-25 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from last Friday's quarterly review of the Foundation's Parsoid team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Parsoid/June_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi folks,

[Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Dan Garry
Hi everyone, If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for a treat! Today we’ve released a revamped Wikipedia for Android app, now available on Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia. Our new features include: - *Speed* – Our new, native app

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Brion Vibber
Congratulations to the Mobile Apps Android team on their first release of the new app! iPhone users, rest assured we're hard at work polishing up the iOS version, which brings the same updated feature set. Expect it in the next few weeks... -- brion On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Dan Garry

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Sage Ross
For those without Google Play access or who otherwise prefer sideloading, here's the APK you can install directly: https://releases.wikimedia.org/mobile/android/wikipedia/stable/wikipedia-2.0.apk -Sage On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi everyone, If you

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Miguel García
Great work! However, I will miss the amazing feature that allowed finding close articles by location. Any plans for restore this feature? :_( El 25/06/2014 21:07, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com escribió: For those without Google Play access or who otherwise prefer sideloading, here's

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On 25 June 2014 20:18, Miguel García miguelgar...@wikimedia.org.es wrote: I will miss the amazing feature that allowed finding close articles by location. Any plans for restore this feature? I came here to say the same thing. I can't believe this has been removed; nor that its removal came as a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Samuel Klein
This is looking great. Editing on the new app has been working very well for me. Except that my mobile operator's IP is often blocked and not allowed to create accounts on en:wp ... Please help us improve this app by sending a note to our mailing list, mobile-android-wikipe...@wikimedia.org.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Alex Monk
On 25 June 2014 23:29, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Please help us improve this app by sending a note to our mailing list, mobile-android-wikipe...@wikimedia.org. Not mobile-l ? Is the above a private list? All lists are @lists.wikimedia.org. This address points to an OTRS queue

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Dan Garry
Responses in-line. On 25 June 2014 15:29, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote: Except that my mobile operator's IP is often blocked and not allowed to create accounts on en:wp ... Indeed. There's not really much we can do about that, unfortunately. However, the IP ranges for mobile

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Dan Garry
Hi Andy, The new app was built in native code from the ground up. So the nearby feature wasn't removed as much as it was never implemented. I apologise if I sound pedantic, but this distinction is important; for the initial release of the new app, we focussed on the barebones features that we

Re: [Wikimedia-l] How many volunteers (not editors) does the movement have????

2014-06-25 Thread ImperfectlyInformed
Samuel Klein meta.sj@... writes: I think a better formulation of the question might be: do we have a list of non-editing activities, and do we have a count of the number of people who do them regularly? To which the answer is partially-yes, and mostly-no. Yes: There is a mindmap of

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
The distinction is false. I have not (and more to the point, the many users who know nothing about our internal workings will not have) installed a new app; I have upgraded an existing app. There was no mention in the list of changes, and no warning elsewhere, that this extremely useful

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
I've just made my first edit. Unless I missed something, there was no way to enter an edit summary. This is troubling in itself, but it is also at odds with the WMF's new terms of use, which require disclosure of paid edits, and suggest that that can be made in edit summaries (among other

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Erik Moeller
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: I've just made my first edit. Unless I missed something, there was no way to enter an edit summary. I think you did (miss something). It gives you canned summaries Fixed typo, Fixed grammar, Added links, and an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Sage Ross
On Jun 25, 2014 9:12 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: I've just made my first edit. Unless I missed something, there was no way to enter an edit summary. You can enter an edit summary. Either choose one of the predefined options for how you improved the page, or pick other to

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Jun 25, 2014 7:28 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for a treat! Sections are no longer collapsed on opening a page. This makes it harder to reach the latter sections of long articles, and presents the reader with a

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
Apologies; my can this be configurable question was in reply to the point on browsing history. On Jun 26, 2014 2:19 AM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On Jun 25, 2014 7:28 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote: If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Brion Vibber
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: Sections are no longer collapsed on opening a page. This makes it harder to reach the latter sections of long articles, and presents the reader with a mobile-unfriendly wall of text. Can this be configurable (akin

Re: [Wikimedia-l] First _draft_ goals for WMF engineering/product

2014-06-25 Thread Erik Moeller
On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: Can you describe how specific engineering projects are helping to address the gender gap? Do you typically review user-facing projects with the gender gap specifically in mind? I notice that while there is a FOSS outreach

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Andy Mabbett
On Jun 26, 2014 2:16 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 25, 2014 9:12 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: I've just made my first edit. Unless I missed something, there was no way to enter an edit summary. You can enter an edit summary. Either choose

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Revamped Wikipedia app for Android now live!

2014-06-25 Thread Brion Vibber
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Andy Mabbett a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote: On Jun 26, 2014 2:16 AM, Sage Ross ragesoss+wikipe...@gmail.com wrote: You can enter an edit summary. Either choose one of the predefined options for how you improved the page, or pick other to enter a manual

[Wikimedia-l] Chapters and GLAM tooling

2014-06-25 Thread Erik Moeller
Hi folks, At the Zurich Hackathon, I met with a couple of folks from WM-CH who were interested in talking about ways that chapters can get involved in engineering/product development, similar to WM-DE's work on Wikidata. My recommendation to them was to consider working on GLAM-related tooling.