Wikimedia Apps/Commons/status

Last update on: 2013-08-monthly

2013-01-monthly
January marked the first month of the Apps team's existence. Yuvaraj Pandian has started work with Brion Vibber on iOS and Android-based apps to upload photos to Commons. Both platforms are being developed concurrently and will have feature parity. Shankar Narayan joined us and and will be supporting the team for all design needs. While the first iteration of the Commons App isn't scheduled to finish until February 8th, the team has already created two skeleton apps that can upload, share and show the user's contributions. The team will be spending their next iteration tweaking workflows and styling the app. We also released new versions of the Wikipedia app on iOS and Android in order to bring it into compliance for legal privacy/disclaimer issues.

2013-02-monthly
February saw numerous beta releases of the Commons iOS and Android app. The Android app was published to Google's Play store with a Beta label. Brion Vibber announced for testers to get envolved in http://tflig.ht/Zl9Ef7. A significant amount of time was spent on the visual polish, bug fixing, and internationalization in prep for a very active series of betas. Extensive work was also done to log specific user actions using E3's EventLogging setup to help us make data driven decisions in the future.



2013-03-monthly
Initial version of Commons photo uploader app for Android is available for download in Google Play. iOS version is still in beta, but should be available in the store next month.

2013-04-monthly
The Wikimedia Commons Android app is available in the Google Play store, and we also added categorization support. Its iOS counterpart is available in iTunes.

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 Wikipedia 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.