Community Wishlist Survey 2017/Mobile and apps/Add CentralNotice to the apps

Random proposal ►◄ Mobile and apps

Add CentralNotice to the apps

Problem: I´m not sure, but I have never seen a CentralNotice in the android-app. If 50% of all users are going to Wikimedia by smartphone, I think, there should be some kind of CentralNotice too.

Who would benefit: Wikimedia

Proposed solution: Create a CentralNotice for the app or maybe use the notification system.

More comments:

Phabricator tickets:

Proposer: Goldzahn (talk) 09:20, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Translations: none yet

Discussion[edit]

According to phab:T145830, there seems to be an "announcements feed service" in place, but that seems to be focused on surveys and donations. --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 10:09, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to be some thingy which is enabled by direct editing of https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/GMOA/browse/master/routes/announcements.js which leads to API like https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/feed/announcements return that announcement and mobile apps grab and show it. As a Meta-wiki admin (thus having CentralNotice management rights) I have access to none of the things needed to use that service. Well, just to make it more obvious than it is. --Base (talk) 19:18, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Seddon (WMF): You're the expert. ;-) Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:29, 7 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

For a bit of context, the system Base points to is a very simple announcement system we developed to recruit testers, announce new features and test mobile fundraising by inserting cards into the mobile Explore feed. It is not intended to replace CentralNotice, but serve as a stopgap to allow us to have some basic communication with app users. We (the apps teams) fully endorse mobile appropriate support for CentralNotice in articles across apps. Unfortunately its not something we can build ourselves. Currently the Fundraising Tech team (with Seddon as sherpa) is defining requirements for an improved CentralNotice, which will hopefully include support for apps. JMinor (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Site notice too please not only central notice. Afaik site notice content is editable by wiki sysops. Gryllida 01:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is. It is located at MediaWiki:Sitenotice (and MediaWiki:Anonnotice for only logged-out users). —Tacsipacsi (talk) 13:06, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Voting[edit]

Support I would also like to see sitenotice/anonnotice on mobile and apps. Strainu (talk) 23:01, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:15, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Obermair 4 (talk) 22:06, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Goldzahn (talk) 22:59, 28 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sebastian Wallroth (talk) 07:38, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Donald Trung (Talk 🤳🏻) (My global lock 🔒) (My global unlock 🔓) 10:29, 29 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support--L736E ^{tell me} 08:19, 30 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 20:18, 1 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2 (talk) 13:13, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support WikiMasterGhibif (talk) 23:32, 2 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support with sitenotice/anonnotice. Tacsipacsi (talk) 18:13, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Gryllida 01:00, 4 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Pharos (talk) 16:48, 9 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]