 and users worldwide, we gather valuable insights that shape our direction and help us focus on areas that have the most significant impact on knowledge accessibility and sharing. So, our annual planning process plays a crucial role in translating the broader movement strategy into actionable plans for each year. So the annual plan sets specific targets and objectives that align with our strategic goals enabling us to allocate resources efficiently and prioritize initiatives that contribute most effectively to the growth and sustainability of our projects. When it comes to feedback from our users and community, the heart of the community lies in our vibrant community of editors, readers and contributors. The feedback is a constant source of inspiration and valuable input. We actually feedback through various channels. Check them next slide please, such as our mobile support emails. So, you feel free to connect with us through our mobile support emails, especially designed to cater to your inquiries and concerns. Whether you are encountering technical glitches or seeking assistance with app functionalities, our team is ready to provide remote and personalized help to ensure a seamless experience. Next slide. The feedback that we receive through our feedback loop page on media week. So we value your input, visit our feedback loop page on media week and you can share your thoughts, suggestions and any issues you have encountered while using our Wikipedia apps. Your feedback plays a crucial role in enhancing the user experience and we're committed to actively listening and responding to your insight to continually improve our apps. Next slide please. Newsletter and office hours. So you can stay updated and engage it with our community through our newsletters, where we share exciting updates, featured releases and insights into our development courses. Additionally, join our regular office, our sessions where you can directly interact with our team, ask questions and discuss ideas. We believe in fostering an open and collaborative environment and these platforms are designed to facilitate and meaningful interactions with our users. Next slide please. Thanks to our team, heretics, our apps team operates on a set of guiding principles that shape our decision making and collaborations. So there are some heretics that we develop within the team in order to think of what's the best to bring into the app. Another important element is mobile first. So the core of our approach lies in a mobile first mentality. We design and develop with a mobile user at forefront so recognizing the growing significance of mobile devices as primary access points of information. Our strategy ensures that our apps provide a seamless and optimized experience for users on smartphones and tablets even so that if we are doing a new feature that it will be in a way that makes sense to the app users. The next point is experience continuity. So seamless user experiences are paramount whether transitioning between devices or engaging with our apps across various platforms. We prioritize maintaining a constant and the initiative experience. And this empowers users to effortlessly interact with our content, regardless of their chosen access point and device. The point is accessibility. So inclusivity drives our development efforts. We're committed to ensuring that our apps are accessible to users of all abilities including low vision users and multi language users who switch between languages for reading and editing. We also consider users with unstable internet connections, tailoring the experience accordingly. We invite you to engage with our open source code base and contribute for striving to create an inclusive environment that promotes equal access to knowledge for everyone. So personalization and customization, recognizing the diversity of user preference, we're working towards enhancing personalization and customization options within our apps. So empowering users to tailor their experience allows them to engage with the content in ways that resonates with their individual needs and interests. And when it comes to innovation, innovation propels our journey forward. We're committed to staying the cutting age of technology, even new trends, exploring new features, design concepts and approaches to enriching our interactions. Our main decommittance to innovation ensures that we continuously evolve to meet the changing landscape of user expectations. Finally, safety. So safety is non-negotiable. We employ robust measures to safeguard the user data and privacy, as well as to mitigate risks associated with the misinformation and harmful content. So by staying true back to the weekend environment where users can explore and contribute to knowledge with confidence. Next slide please. And here we go with level of effort versus impact. So balancing effort and impact is fundamental considering in our decision making. We evaluate potential initiatives based on the potential positive outcomes relative to the resources required and that we have. So this approach allows us to allocate our efforts effectively and focus on projects that offer the most substantial benefit to our users and the Wikimedia more. You can feel free to explore the options we have discussed so far and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or thoughts. And now let's move to our next point of access. Marina you have the mic. Hi everyone. I'm Marina. I'm going to talk a little bit how using all the feedback received from our users, we're evolving the platform to move away from being a reader's only app as it was in the past. And now we're working on improving the editing experience and more on the support of the Wikimedia movement more from mobile perspectives. Next slide please. We're going to take a look at a brief history of the apps over the years and how we're changing and evolving as always. Next slide please. That was first we were focused on a power reading experience that started back in 2012 and it was focused on bringing discovery content. And a great reading experience for everyone. Any language. Then we moved on to micro contributions is starting to allow. Article editing and articles encryption editing, slowly allowing new contributors and old contributors alike to edit from the apps. But then we moved on to support other ways that we interact with the movement like only he communications in 2020. And new antagonism tools, just a tier. Next slide please. So starting from the beginning, we were focused only on reading. So we had like an explore feed. And it was one of the main features for a long time. It was a way for users to interact with the content was our version of the main page. You can find featured article, you can also find. Commons article picture of the day. And you can find, for instance, top read and random articles so ways to explore the contents that had already been created. Next slide. We also had the places. Explore options so you can find articles that are nearby to you from like if you have your location. Services allowing the app to access where you are. So you can find the results in your area you can zoom in the map and find content around you. And it's iOS only for now like we used to have it on Android but some technical challenges made us remove this feature and we're working on having it back soon. This is the one of the most requested features. Next slide. And reading lists, so reading lists is a way to create your own content and save your favorite articles, and it allows it allows you to save your articles for applying reading. So you can take it on the go, read offline on your flights or when you have low data so you can always have your articles with you. So they are saved across devices if you're a long time to never lose your reading list that is so careful created. Next slide please. But what about editing right so you're all supposed to be allowed to edit Wikipedia, regardless of your device of choice. But and then we started supporting this on the apps as well. So we started with article editing from editing article descriptions and with a section editor like full page editing is to a challenge for us. Because of the way the API works with the mobile endpoints. But we also have other limitations for instance a smaller screens kind of hard to edit a lot of text and such a small screen even though smartphones are getting bigger every year, basically. But we also don't have the visual editor. It doesn't work on the platforms and either iOS or Android so we understand this is the challenge for newcomers like more experienced editors they master week attacks but if you're a newcomer it can be a little scary and challenging to understand what all those brackets are. And we can have support for templates and some other advanced tools as now. But we have to start from somewhere so we started with this basic editing experience for articles and article descriptions and also a first version of chalk pages for user pages and article talk pages. The next slide. But editing is much more than just editing articles or creating articles. It's also about communicating with the community and interacting with other users. To create the content and to help others right so. Next slide so we are working on only keep communications so it's a way for you to interact with the movement also on the platform. We started with notifications you can get notifications on your app and you can get a push notification if you allow your phone to receive them. You can have like real time updates on all the activity they care about. Next slide. We also improve the top pages experience used to be like a very simple list, you can find that old picture of it, but the new experiences much more platform appropriate so it gives you all the tools for creating topics and responding and we're always improving this experience to allow. For instance, images and other types of content on iOS really soon was to have some improvements to make was to iterating on this but the new experience allows you to access archives in a better way and see other permanent links. The way that was not really possible before. Next slide. And now we're working starting to work on. There are two of them type of the list of tasks on progress in both in both platforms and although we talk a little bit more in depth for you but we'll see what we're working on right now as well in other fronts. Next slide. And I'll also mentioned how we viewed or roadmap and all the inputs were taken consideration from the foundation from the community. So what's in our roadmap right now. Next slide. We pull from for buckets like when you're thinking about, we're going to tackle so system learning and discovery. Well, how can we help our users to find content and learn what's interesting to them. Quick but impactful contributions going to be our focus for this talk since it's a lot to talk about it's headed to focus on contributions today. Like also related to the only key communications and all that work but and platform really I'll be reliability would need to make sure that whatever you are regardless of what's going on. You can access the content and you can still be connected with the movement. Next slide. So, in progress for now we have the patroller tools and tab in the list of tasks, some progress in both apps. And right now we're doing a watch list on iOS. That's something that's super important for the most experienced editors. It's done an Android, but we're iterating on iOS if you sign up for a newsletter as a mouse have you be kept in the loop. We already have suggestive edits enhancements we already have suggestive edits is a more beginner task for newcomers but it already is working on Android we're working on enhancements now. So edit entry, it was completely complete on in Android and it's in progress on iOS and edit entry with me at allowing full article editing and having a platform native editor like used to be a web a web view on Android to just see a web view in iOS. But we're working towards having a full iOS native editor in iOS but you can already find this enhanced experience on Android. Next slide. It's not started yet but it's already on a roadmap is suggested edit types for iOS. So, it's another way to simulate new users to interact with the content to start editing, created tasks, also newcomer editing experience that we want to add to the apps. App donations so for people that donate from mobile devices we want to create a better experience for them to understand how donations are important how they're used so we're working on enhancing this experience and also positive reinforcement how can we keep editors editing and happy. It's not started yet but it's on a roadmap. And now I'll pass the mic to Olga. Thank you so much Marina. Hi all my name is Olga I'm one of the designers on the steam primarily designing for iOS. And I'll be presenting a section understanding the needs of mobile editors. So Marina mentioned I'll go through some of the features that she mentioned her section but expand on them just a little bit. So, community feedback and ideas guide our work and over the last year Marina mentioned that we've been working on and finishing up on the communications and also are currently working on anti battles and tools and features. So, why did we actually start working on communication. Well, we had. As Marina mentioned, request for editing features so moving from primarily reader focus to now editor focused communication became a big part to allow experienced editors to communicate between one another and send each other messages and also get notified about them. So these features that I will go through again are mainly adopted from the web experience, but altered to fit the mobile experience better. So, as mentioned notifications was a big part of it. Again they work similarly as on web, except we can access notifications across all languages and projects on your device so it's on the same page and you pretty much filter through the languages that you have a project that you have, but it's all located in one spot. And also for push notifications, the ability to receive kind of instant notifications about any new talk page message or edits me to a page that you're watching on your device is, yeah, is available now. And then further, as mentioned we have now native talk pages for both apps. This allows for kind of easy communication again similar functionality you can subscribe to different topics, like on web, create topics and message, send messages on user talk and article talk pages. And as you see, it looks slightly different than on web because we are also designing to ensure that the different features and apps fit platform kind of UI and designs. So, we're always adopting that as well. So, in addition, we've added edit notices alerts and now you have access to like walk messages and people have the ability to see these messages played on their screen as previously we did not have the stability. So that's finished up just this in this past half a year. And now to more of the work that we have ongoing so this is not in the app yet but will be soon. So this falls under the so edit patrol and watch this fall under anti vandalism tools. So we had a request from community to ensure that edits are made that the edits are made in the apps are of good quality. And also we've had community asked for moderation tools that don't have preference for one specific language. So I'll be talking first about the editor patrol. As Maria mentioned, we are going to first have it on Android, hopefully released relatively soon and then we'll adopt it also on iOS. And this is heavily inspired by all the different extensions and tools that we currently have on web to help patrol is review edits. So similarly to on web, it will allow people to review edits in their app and there's a stream of edits from recent changes that you can tap on. You can see here in this kind of gift you can filter again through different languages. So you'll have access if you do patrol in different languages you have access to switch the, the, the recent edits into the recent changes into those languages. And then once you get to the diff you you're able to either here it is either thank the editor for the contributions under rollback the edit if you have the appropriate privileges and rights. You can watch the page or one editors by sending them a talk message. And in this feature you're able to also save those warning messages into the app so you can reuse them later, and I'll have to retype the warning messages over and over again. But also as mentioned we're going to we're bringing a watch list to iOS we do currently have watch list on Android, and this again allows us to use the different languages or a specific language that you're interested in and also review your watch list pages from that particular language. And from once you tap on the diff, as you see here you can also undo the contribution or rollback again if you have the appropriate privileges. And yeah, and so both of these features are here to a experienced editors to track and review edits and hopefully improve also the quality of edits. And as we're moving into this world of more editor focus features will be, we are doing a lot of research. And so this is a quote that I found that I found it's kind of appropriate for at least the work that I do so it says research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. So when looking at existing kind of community wishes and needs, and then also existing apps and extension or sorry extent existing desktop extensions and tools and features, and then also think of how to adapt that to on a mobile phone until small screen size and make it easy also for new editors on experienced editors to use and support existing editor experience editor workflows. We do a lot of research, we are reaching out to community more and more to ask for their input for to run usability tests to understand if the designs and if the research that we do is actually appropriate for their needs. So, if you're interested in participating or following our work, or actually participating in the tests and surveys that we have, feel free to email me at the most here so it's out to you know that the community is at work. We're always looking for volunteers to test this. Also, feel free to follow us on our media wiki page and our project page there's updates there very frequently. Also, if you haven't downloaded the app yet. Feel free to do that either in the Google Play or App Store and test it out and send us our feedback on any of the support emails this is highly sought out right now and again as we're moving into more of editor focus. We really appreciate people coming in and and leaving their feedback and requests. So, on the behalf of the app scene. Thank you so much for coming and watching us talk about apps. And, and yeah, and you have any questions feel free to ask them as now we have I think a couple minutes. So, yeah, thank you so much. Any questions. No, there's no questions. Okay, thank you. I'm going to chat. Okay, I'm here. I'm going to read it out loud. I have enjoyed this parkline feature on the Wikipedia mobile app. I wonder if you might be nice to have it for articles on my watch list. It will help me improve contents that is getting traction and which I typically would know where have interest and watch lists on Android we have them. If you use Android you'll be able to access watch lists. Go away functioning as you would and desktop web or mobile web. Just with a nice UI for Android and we're working on it for iOS. So not available we're constructing it as we speak. Then you would able to be able to watch articles directly as you can on the web. Okay. So, I just have very quick questions about like the state. I just saw the Middle Eastern church is implemented on the application. It's going to plan to implement it on mobile as well. I mean, mobile. Sorry, mobile web. Currently, we have all the other moderation tools I think implemented on mobile web but currently this version of the patrol kind of edit patrol tool is thought to be first on Android and iOS and we are communicating with people from mobile web but I think there's actually a talk that they have later today on moderation tools specifically so if you want to go listen to that. Hello, hello. I'm one of the volunteers who develop the comments and we try to keep supporting all devices and I think that that's true for the tool and in fact, I think that has even even even, I mean, all the devices and we have all the devices are used in underrepresented regions of the world and we really think that's true and do you have data like that. So I can participate in answering this question because I was attending the meeting that we had during this year at the first quite a quarter I guess with the comments of volunteers who are working on developing the app as you explained with Nicholas and Karthik as I can remember. So we're actually working and supporting them, especially from our software engineers and then the Android team because they have history and helping the comments guys and doing their work so we're here all the time supporting and having that especially when it comes to the stuff that you need with the the place to stuff and making sure that the app will be there and remain there for downloads. And for the second point that you mentioned that's rated for them underrepresented areas that use the app actually a huge part of our work and now is like dedicated to how we can sustain the usage of our applications in these areas that can cause or can suffer from the internet connection stable internet connection or even an older Android devices as you mentioned so what we can do here is that you can follow our pages for the announcement of the next office hour that would probably take place in the next October and maintain this point as a main point that we can discuss in order to be taken into consideration for further details in the next period and the next plans that we're working on. The second point is that you can discuss with the volunteer engineers who are working on the Commons app and that you just like have a specific step on what you want to do in order to help these users from the underrepresented areas as you mentioned and we can have our own meeting to discuss what we can do in order to uplift the usage and this point. I don't know if this like answered your questions, or maybe if you need any more clarification please go ahead. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, yeah. We're welcome we're here to help. So do you have any other questions that we can answer suggestions or even future requests that you would like to see. I think I think I think this is like, this is it. And we have shown you how you can reach out to us we're listening to your inquiries thoughts and suggestions all the time. Myself and my colleagues we were so happy to be with you here today and when we're looking for forward the communication that we can collaborate and uplift the usage of our Wikipedia app so that it can be exactly as you would like your user experience to be. Thank you so much for being here today and looking forward to hear from you all.