Wikipedia Zero/status

Last update on: 2012-07-monthly

2012-02-29
Patrick Reilly continued work on our zero-rated MediaWiki extension. He spent the month cleaning up issues reported by our partners and prepped the extension for more scheduled partner testing in March.

2012-03-15
Patrick Reilly deployed Wikipedia Zero to production in prep for testing with Digi. We're continuing testing through the week 

2012-03-21
We continued testing with Digi

2012-03-31
Patrick Reilly deployed the ZeroRatedMobileAccess extension to production, and we tested it with Digi.

2012-04-02
We finished styling issues for the Digi Malaysia launch and are prepping communication

2012-04-monthly
Patrick Reilly and Dan Foy have continued to support our Zero partner roll-outs. We're testing in new countries and are updating the Zero software as necessary. Due to our partners' confidentiality requirements, we haven't been able to highlight the specific areas where testing is happening. Moving forward, we are going to work with our partners to be able to disclose more.

2012-05-02
Patrick has continued to work with Dan about launch related zero issues

2012-05-17
Our focus lately has been working with Orange affiliates in Africa. Right now we are conducting tests in Tunisia, Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Niger and Ivory Coast

2012-05-monthly
<section begin=2012-05-monthly/>May saw the first official launch of [//blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/26/wikipedia-zero-launches-in-malaysia-with-digi/ Wikipedia Zero in Malaysia]. Patrick Reilly, Dan Foy and others conducted tests in Tunisia, Kenya, Uganda, Cameroon, Niger and Ivory Coast. Patrick worked with Dan to further improve the Wikipedia Zero extension.<section end=2012-05-monthly/>

2012-06-monthly
<section begin="2012-06-monthly"/>Dan and Patrick continued conducting tests with Orange in six different countries. Additional testing and refinement is under way with our partners in Bangladesh and Montenegro. <section end="2012-0

2012-07-monthly
<section begin="2012-07-monthly"/>Dan and Patrick continued conducting tests with our partners in Bangladesh and Montenegro. We debugged and resolved serious issues with our Opera Mini integration and general infrastructure.<section end="2012-07-monthly"/>

2012-08-monthly
<section begin=2012-08-monthly/>Configuration of partner data is now more configurable and various additional partners are now in testing mode. List of launches to follow. <section end=2012-08-monthly/>