Reading/Reading team updates August, 2015

General:

 * The reading team is currently working on a strategy in order to identify challenges, and choices we need to make in order to better serve their position in the movement. input is welcome and is being collected  here


 * Q2 planning is starting. The first step was a document that gathered ideas from the team

Readers survey:
The team has worked on a new tool for on site surveys. The service enables users to provide an answer to one question, without being re-directed to an external service. Questions in the first round will focus on a)what brought a reader to the site, whether this is via searching, quick fact look-up, in-depth reading, or random browsing). Those survery aim at helping us build better understating of user behaviors and reading patterns.

Article layout on mobile:
There is a current discussion around possibilities for article layout on mobile. Feel free to add your thoughts on the existing proposal or other ideas or concerns. No panic, this is a discussion of an *idea* :)

Wikidata description discussion:
In case you missed it there was an interesting discussion around Wikidata descriptions on a thread on WikimediaMobile

Apps:

 * Apps team need OTRS volunteers who can join our efforts to help us understand what users want! Please get in touch with Moushira if interested.
 * [Android] Future releases will only serve devices with Android 4.0.3 and newer.
 * [Android] WMF is running banners a test in Finland to experiment users interactions to banners asking for app donwload. You can check the banners here and here
 * [iOS] App version 4.1.7 is released
 * The FAQs for both the iOS and Android releases need help with translation :-)