Readers/Status updates/2017-12

This is the monthly update for 2017-12

Discussions

Apps

• Android made 2 releases: a major release introduced (amongst other things) a fully customisable Explore feed, a new and improved Randomiser, and by popular request a new Black theme that optimises battery life on AMOLED displays. A subsequent minor release fixed a few bugs/performance issues.

Web

• Performance testing of the new PDF renderer is giving hopeful results
• New summary endpoint, created to provide better page previews is ready for deployment to all projects
• Initial bugs with download to PDF button on mobile now resolved:
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182059
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182197
  • https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179915

Reading Infrastructure

• Deployed the ReadingLists extension and Reading List Service to production.

New Readers

• New Reader updates can be found at Meta.

Multimedia

• Data Analysts Chelsy and Mikhail have completed baseline metrics for Commons in preparation to understand and measure the impact the Structured Data project will have.

Discovery

The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month.

• 2017-12-04
• 2017-12-11

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