Wikimedia Mobile engineering
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The Wikimedia Foundation Mobile department is managed by Tomasz Finc and is part of the larger Wikimedia Engineering team. The best way to keep up to date with the team is to check its roadmap or the project updates below. Feel free to take a look at our goals to see where we're headed.
Current projects[edit | edit source]
| Project | Description | Project lead & team | Status |
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| Commons App |
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An iOS and Android app that allows you to upload media to Commons. |
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Tomasz Finc, Brion, Yuvi, Shankar |
Status: (2013-08-monthly)
This month, the Mobile Apps team pushed out additional releases of the Commons photo uploader app for iOS and Android. The iOS version includes a major UI revamp by Monte, while the Android version has received multiple incremental updates by Yuvi and Brion. Yuvi has been working on modernizing support for campaigns in UploadWizard, which will make it easier to coordinate uploads for events like Wiki Loves Monuments. Viewer, contributor, and admin user interfaces for campaigns will come to the web, with campaign-tied uploading in the web and mobile app. The team also started making plans for the next generation of the gay reader app, which will be more closely integrated with the mobile web site to ensure that new features are always available through a web view, even where we don't create specific native support. More details will be put together in the next couple months.
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| Wikipedia Zero |
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Free and zero rated access to Wikipedia through our partners |
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Tomasz Finc (Director of Mobile, Engineering); Carolynne Schloeder (Director of Mobile, Programs), Kul Wadhwa (Business Development), Dan Foy (Tech Manager), Yuri Astrakahn, Adam Baso |
Status: (2013-09-monthly)
This month, the team released enhanced URL rewriting and debug flag-only Edge Side Includes (ESI) banner inclusion to production, supported the Ops implementation of dynamic MCC/MNC carrier tagging, identified web access log and user agent anomalies, further analyzed and recommended load balancer IP address-related changes in support of HTTPS requirements, and tested JavaScript-based Wikipedia Zero user interface enhancements.
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| Mobile web projects |
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Features and design work on the Wikimedia MobileFrontend mobile gateway |
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Maryana Pinchuk, Jon Robson, Juliusz Gonera, Ryan Kaldari, Max Semenik, Arthur Richards, Michelle Grover, Vibha Bamba |
Status: (2013-09-monthly)
In September, we mostly focused on Tutorial A/B testing, Notifications overlay in Beta, and adding campaign tracking to MobileFrontend.
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General[edit | edit source]
- Strategy: See our strategic goals for this year.
- Get involved: Help develop and test-drive new mobile features.
- Give feedback: Report bugs, give suggestions, and talk to the mobile team.
Mobile Web[edit | edit source]
- Mobile site: Learn about the official Wikimedia mobile site.
