Wikimedia Apps/Wikipedia/Feedback

Feedback Page for Wikipedia Android app

Removed items that have bug reports or have been fixed. See Archive1.

= V1.1 =

Fábio Magnoni fabiohmagnoni@gmail.com via lists.wikimedia.org 4:22 AM (5 hours ago) When open Nearby pages, here in São Paulo the points on the map never stops, change place a lot Galaxy S i9000 (2.3.5)

Review by AndroidPIT
Hi, the german Android Newspage AndroidPIT recently has reviewed the app: 3 of 5 stars! Read http://www.androidpit.de/de/android/tests/test/393495/Wikipedia-Mobil-Pool-des-Wissens, the article contains numerous suggestions for an enhancement of the app. If you need assistance for translating, contact me on my de.wp-talkpage. --Emha (talk) 12:25, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Testing by Jarry1250
Tested nightly version as available on 21 March 2012 on Android 2.3.3 (Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830) with a poor/variable WiFi connection.

Nearby
 * Works nicely but the heading "< Nearby pages" is confusing at first; it took me a while to realise that the "<" (back indicator) and "Nearby Places" (title) are unrelated. Ditto "Saved pages".
 * I'd also have expected "Nearby" when viewing (say) the article on the Eiffel Tower to show me a map of Paris, not my present location.

Read in
 * Did its job nicely. But the words "Read in" imply a direct translation - which is incorrect - though I can't think of a better alternative (in English at least).

Share:
 * Again, was functional, though sharing main pages results in odd titles - either the full URL, or "?useformat=mobile". This could be adjusted.
 * I'm allowed to try to share "Nearby places" - of course, it actually shares the page I was on before, but that's not clear. Should be greyed out?
 * I couldn't share by Facebook or Twitter; I'm not an experienced Android user but I was expecting to be able to do this.
 * Sharing a page from a foreign Wikipedia resulted in the sending of an unsightly percent-encoded URL.
 * On some pages I found that the Share button (and the Save button) were in fact greyed out; I could only rectify this by quitting the app and starting afresh.

Save page / Saved pages
 * Functional. I really missed having some sort of indication that the page had been saved (it wasn't even greyed out afterwards).

General Browsing
 * I'm not sure if it's just me, but I got no visual indication when pressing (on my touchscreen smartphone) a link, or when using the phone's return/back button.
 * When my internet flickered off momentarily, and I got the "not available offline", I was unable to refresh, I was presented with no link to do so nor a in-app back link. My inability to refresh may be related to the fact that the "loading" ring indicator never disappeared for me, even when the page had loaded.
 * I got a little annoyed with a wide table when I found myself unable to scroll horizontally. I think I was supposed to flip my phone (to landscape) round to view the rest of it, not sure.
 * Following a link from a navbox to a page I'd never visited before took me to the navbox on that article, forcing me to scroll all the way to the top again.
 * I could never see the link right at the bottom of the page, presumably the final item in the footer (Contact us?).
 * After viewing only a handful of pages, my RAM footprint was as high as 40MB. (Presumably this is because quite a few of the pages ended up being locally cached?)
 * Local caching took me completely by surprise; the "offline" message doesn't seem to indicate that this is performed at all.
 * Search worked nicely / as expected.

History
 * Just didn't seem to work at all (?).

Hope something useful comes of this, happy to followup, by email please :) Thanks, Jarry1250 (talk) 16:33, 21 March 2012 (UTC)