Readers/Status updates/Next

This is the monthly update for 2018-07

Highlights

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Discussions

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Apps

 * Wikipedia for iOS released a first beta of the next major version, 6.0.0. This update includes a fully user controlled Explore feed, similar to the recent changes on Android. It also includes major design and navigation improvements.

Web

 * Page Previews now aborts in-flight requests if the user has shifted their focus (see https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197700), resulting in less data being sent to the user. Indeed, Page Previews is now sending ~25% of the requests that it used to at peak.

Reading Infrastructure

 * Doing definition work for T199096ː Add support for wikidata summaries in the /page/summary/ endpoint consulting with Wikidata and Readers web team
 * Page Content Service: Improving mobile-html (fka. content-html) endpoint output. Added several transformations from the #wikimedia-page-library.
 * T198622ː Migrating maps servers to stretch with the current style and subtasks (Mapnik library upgrades for the stretch migration)

Evaluative Design Research

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New Readers

 * New Reader updates can be found at Meta.

Multimedia

 * Video downloads will start being produced in VP9 format soon
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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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