The alpha version of the Wikipedia apps now supports offline ZIMs. With this ability these apps join the efforts to provide Wikipedia to the more than 4 billion people who do not have reliable Internet. Figuring out the impact of offline is much harder than that of online. A good app is important as offline builds off this base.
James On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I note that >>it's currently impossible to find online mobile app usage statistics >>on the analytics we pages, dashboard or reportcard, where they last >>measured 0.0006% of pageviews in 2015: > > You have data about app pageviews in several places, the most popular tool > to see that kind of data has numbers, for example app pageviews > for en.wikipedia. > > The notion of what is an app pageview fluctuates more than what is a web > pageview, but numbers are quite far away from being less than 1% > > https://tools.wmflabs.org/siteviews/?platform=mobile-app&source=pageviews&agent=user&range=latest-20&sites=en.wikipedia.org > > > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 6:44 AM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm skeptical that the online mobile apps are a good use of resources, >> with their very meager usage, especially relative to the several >> engineers tasked to support them, their questionable accessibility >> aspects, declining app store ratings, and other issues involving >> content substitution which have recently come up on this list, not to >> mention breaking the cross-platform nature of the web. I note that >> it's currently impossible to find online mobile app usage statistics >> on the analytics we pages, dashboard or reportcard, where they last >> measured 0.0006% of pageviews in 2015: >> >> https://stats.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/squids/SquidReportUserAgents.htm >> >> However, I wholeheartedly support this new offline app project, and >> hope that it will be the primary focus of the Foundation's app-not-web >> efforts going forward: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iESP20HGPiE >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_support >> >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Offline_ >> support/V1_User_research >> >> Huge thanks to whomever directed this pivot! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ >> wiki/Wikimedia-l >> New messages to: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
