How about using the banners, like we did a while ago?

I would love to use a banner for this functionality.

I've been wanting to explore using CN to announce new site functionality.

Happy to chat about this.

@Johan may have thoughts.

How wide-spread? When we talked about PDFs regarding OCG/Electron/new development, we did so on pages specifically related to the PDF function, which meant that it was relevant for basically everyone who saw it. PDFs for mobile, on the other hand, is something that smaller percentage will use.

What is the problem?

This seems clear.

How does success of this task look like? How do we know when we are done?

This is being discussed.

Is there any goal, program, project, team related with this request? Please provide links and use the corresponding Phabricator tags when available.

Done.

What is your expected timeline from start to end? Is there a hard deadline?

Not specified here but seeing how quickly this task has been assigned and prioritized, I guess it's urgent. :) Still, could you specify here, please?

I think this one is a bit more straightforward, as we won't affect current functionality, but is rather additional functionality. I would say that a general message would be a bit more straightforward than putting a banner on all pages on mobilefrontend.

I'm drafting an message to let folks know of the new feature. We'll post it to wikitech-l, offline-l, and mobile-l. I'll mention it in Tech/News and the next monthly Readers update.

I'll ask for translations and post it to Village Pumps (technical) as well.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Mobile_PDF

Olga posted the message to the mailing lists.

I added it to Tech News for next week.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2017/47

The feature was also mentioned in the Tech Showcase newsletter: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Tech_Showcase

Working on making the Village Pump post translatable.

The Village Pump message has been marked for translation and I've asked volunteers for assistance in translating.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Mobile_PDF

I forgot to include this earlier. Olga posted to the mailing lists here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-November/089106.html

I just sent the announcement out to Village Pumps for all projects. A total of 627 messages.

thank you @CKoerner_WMF!

The only feedback I've seen thus far is from zh wikivoyage:

https://zh.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:互助客栈#New_print_to_pdf_feature_for_mobile_web_readers

I responded to the question on the ZH Wikivoyage after Olga and I met this week. I haven't been pinged and I checked other Village Pumps (Top ten in each project and about 50 at random) and haven't seen any responses.

It's been a week since I posted. We'll provide another update on the treatment of other browsers (to be tracked in a separate task). For now I consider this resolved.