Greetings, I'm here again with the monthly update from the Readers department.
**New**: You can now subscribe to receive theses updates as on-wiki notifications or opt-in email! Handy if you subscribe to the digest of this mailing list or don't visit the archive frequently. Subscribe on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Readers_Monthly Thanks for reading, as always, feedback and questions are welcome. ==Discussions== === Apps=== * '''Android''': Progress being made with the Offline Library feature. There's a video demo and more information on Mediawiki.org. [0] [1] ===Web=== * We've updated the visual design for hatnotes on the mobile website to distinguish them from the remainder of the content. [2] * Due to issues with our current PDF rendering system, we will be pausing rendering for the book creator for the time being, until we can identify a proper solution. More information can be found on the project page. [3] * We have been planning and making roadmap updates for the updated mobile website project. [4] === Reading Infrastructure === * Reading Lists have been announced to the Wikipedia projects. [5] [6] === New Readers === * New Reader updates can be found at Meta. [7] === Multimedia === * In preparation for 3D object files on commons a short 30 minute read-only period for Commons will happen on October 11th. [8] * Community feedback is wanted on an update to the upload process on Commons for 3D objects [9] === Discovery === The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month. * 2017-09-11 [10] * 2017-09-18 [11] * 2017-09-25 [12] -- [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESP20HGPiE [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T173600 [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/PDF_Functionality [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Projects/NewMobileWebsite [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Reading_List_Discussion [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Synced_Reading_Lists [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Updates [8] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Read-only_Commons_in_preparation_for_3D_file_support_-_11_October [9] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Input_requested_on_3D_object_file_upload_process [10] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-09-11 [11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-09-18 [12] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Discovery/Status_updates/2017-09-25 --- The archive of all past updates can be found on MediaWiki.org: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Status_updates Yours, Chris Koerner Community Liaison Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
