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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 2

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin October Issue 1

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Wikimedia Apps newsletter – Third quarter of 2024

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Hello, and welcome to the app's third newsletter of 2024! In this edition, we will highlight the accomplishments and progress made during July, August, and September 2024!

iOS Updates

Over 20,000 images have been added via the "Add an Image" feature across both iOS and Android! (T372954), good opportunity to try it yourself ;) This tool allows users to enhance Wikipedia articles by adding relevant images. It’s a great way to contribute and improve the visual experience for readers.

The iOS team kicked off the Alt Text experiment to improve image descriptions for accessibility. This feature helps ensure that visually impaired users can better understand the content of images through descriptive text.

App screen for iOS App project page

The iOS App has been transitioning from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports both reading and editing. After adding a number of editing features, the navigation system of the app needs to grow and change to support them and future additions. Improving our navigation will allow for more app users to discover editing features, and allow experienced users quicker access to their most-used tools. This refresh incorporates findings from usability testing with multiple variants of the App's navigation. The team is currently planning phased rollouts over the coming year to improve user experience. (Phase 1: T373714)

Android Updates

Improvements were made to the Places feature in response to user feedback, including larger cluster icons and a Wikipedia logo for articles without images (T371067, T370094). Also, the team is exploring designs to allow users to explore articles from multiple language wikis simultaneously and will adjust the zoom logic to show nearby locations upon launch (T352757, T368792).

  • WikiTrivia Game

The team prepared for the WikiTrivia Game during a hackathon, selecting a data source and creating initial designs (T371508, T371510).

Work began on adding Recommended Content to search, iterating on design concepts and testing performance (T371613).

The team is now engaging with several wikis to implement Machine-Assisted Article Descriptions based on prior experimental results.

Android users can now share reading lists with others, expanding community collaboration (T370703).

And some performance enhancements: Revision tags for app edits were successfully implemented (T366731, T366732).

The app now supports URL sharing on Pixel devices, thanks to volunteer developer contributions (T370020).

Stay tuned for future updates as we continue to enhance your Wikipedia experience! And you can subscribe to this newsletter.

--17:17, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 2

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin September Issue 1

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 2

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the second half of August 2024. Please help translate

Upcoming and current events and conversations Talking: 2024 continues

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on Mediawiki.org

  • Highlights of the Product & Technology department's recent work in improving the user experience.
  • Editor tools related to references & categories and more tech updates on the latest Tech News.
  • Outreachy (a paid, remote three-month internship to support underrepresented groups in tech) is open. Mentors should submit projects before September 11 at 16:00 UTC (more info).
  • The Campaign Events extension is now available on Meta-Wiki, Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested in other language wikis.
  • The Campaigns teams would like to learn more about how your communities do online collaboration such as WikiProjects, please take this Google Form survey or share examples of successful collaborations on Meta Wiki.
  • Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
  • Applications for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) are still open until September 16.

Annual Goals Progress on Equity See also a list of all movement events: on Meta

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

Board and Board committee updates See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

  • Some next steps on a movement charter: A message from Wikimedia Foundation CEO, Maryana Iskander, Chair of Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv, and Chair of Governance Committee, Dariusz Jemielniak.
  • Elections for four community-and-affiliate elected seats on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation will be held from September 3 to September 17. To learn more about the candidates, watch this short "Meet the Candidates" presentations.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Wikimedia World · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · other newsletters:

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

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SCP-2000 (talkcontribs)

Hello, perhaps the "Add your feedback here" section could link to the talk page as other projects do, rather than being placed at the bottom of the page? Thanks.

ARamadan-WMF (talkcontribs)

Hello @SCP-2000,

Apologies for the late reply—I was out of the office. The feedback section has already been moved to the discussion page as suggested. Thank you for your input!

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 1

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation over the first half of August 2024. Please help Translate.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin August Issue 1

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin July Issue 2

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