Author: swalling
Description:
Currently the History feature of the Android application shows the home page as "http://en.m.wikipedia.org" or the relevant language code. It should instead show as "Main Page".
Since we would need to probably expend effort on localizing the name "Main Page", it would also be very nice if there was tooltip for the W icon that told the user that clicking leads to the Main Page.
Version: 3.2 (iOS) / 1.2 (Android)
Severity: enhancement
| Title | Reference | Author | Source Branch | Dest Branch | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Define the build/release pipeline of the spark-history docker image | repos/data-engineering/spark!8 | brouberol | history-server-image | main |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T33805 Wikipedia Android App 1.1 tracking - current bugs | |||
| Resolved | None | T35802 Wikipedia Android app retains GPS access even when it doesn't need it | |||
| Resolved | • brion | T35208 Switch "near me" from Google Maps Android API to HTML-based OpenStreetMap backend | |||
| Invalid | None | T35855 Wikipedia Android App potential features (tracking) | |||
| Resolved | yuvipanda | T35283 Show name of Main Page (instead of URL) in history view |
Tooltip's don't really exist on touchscreen devices (and this would be a separate issue, so if further work there is needed that should be split out to a separate bug)
Getting the title right now is kinda tricky, as
It might be possible to pull something from the <title>, but all that shows is "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia" (and extracting from it is hard as we can't guarantee we know its structure in any language).
Actually there's nothing I can see that says that the page title is "Main Page" anywhere in http://en.m.wikipedia.org/
Proper fix probably looks something like this:
This may or may not actually work depending on how the XHR stuff works though... blurf!
philinje wrote:
Not sure if this is that urgent, but using a localization string called Main Page is probably the best solution. Thanks, Liangent.
philinje wrote:
Looking at this again, I think what Brion meant is that MobileFrontend should show the full canonical URL:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
in order to grab the words "Main Page" in the respective languages. This would identify the page as the main page and eliminate the need for localization.
Seems like this could be a fairly minor change in Mobile Frontend. Assigning to version 1.2.
1.2 is no longer dependent on MobileFrontend, and currently also has no way to show the Mobile main page (since the API does not provide a way to get the current MF main page). I think we'll need to make this translatable.
philinje wrote:
Should the API provide a method to get the main page (not via MF)?
assigning to 1.2 milestone
philinje wrote:
Should we remove doubles in history, which tend to happen for the main page?
Talked to brion and looks like I first need to request MediaWiki:Mainpage then use that as page title. Two requests though.
https://github.com/wikimedia/WikipediaMobile/pull/223 has a data file included that has metadata about every language wiki, including the main page's name. Should be able to implement this once that is done.