Readers/Status updates/Next

This is the monthly update for 2018-08

Highlights

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Discussions

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Apps

 * The Android team has been hard at work on a limited beta test of a subset of echo notifications in the app, designed to encourage repeat contributions. Check out the full update on our project page.

Web

 * Web team have begun compiling a list of common problems that they wrestle with trying to make our content mobile friendly. The end result is Recommendations for mobile friendly articles. These are recommendations not guidelines and some are more feasible/easy to change then others. We ask that you raise awareness and contribute to the talk page with any questions, suggestions you have.
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Reading Infrastructure

 * Maps
 * Upgrading OS to Stretch (continued)
 * Added Stretch testing instance (deployment-maps04) to the Beta Cluster
 * Upgrading Mapnik to 3.7.2
 * Posted the August 14, 2018 update on Status of map styles
 * Start regenerating low-zoom levels monthly
 * Services
 * Ran Android announcement for the new multi-language search and feed issue in multiple languages
 * PCS media endpoint:
 * Updated to be ready for tags (Previously Parsoid used tags for audio)
 * Added language code for descriptions and artists
 * PCS mobile-html endpoint:
 * Made some improvements in the presentation of the content, but still more to come
 * REST Mobile endpoints have been removed from non-Wikipedia projects (T201103#4490994) (Platform team)

Evaluative Design Research

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New Readers

 * New Reader updates can be found at Meta.

Multimedia

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Events and News

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Other Noteworthy Stuff

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Did you know?

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Development

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