Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine/App/Banner/Archive 1

Medical App. Initial discussions
This banner was initially discussed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine&oldid=722411955#Medical_app

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Medical app Our offline medical app now has 5,000 to 10,000 downloads. We have ZIMs in other languages now as listed here Hope to figure out how to allow them to be added to the app soon.

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:13, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
 * impressive--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 16:36, 7 May 2016 (UTC)

Have put together a notice to inform our readers about this here Things of maybe putting it on a dozen or so pages. Thoughts? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:30, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * People get really emotional about non-content banners on article content - as we just saw with the "research" template.  Seems OK to trial it on a few of the more highly trafficked medical articles (Zika maybe?) but be ready for blowback.  Before a broader Phase II test an RfC would be good, and hopefully you are gathering data from this pilot that you can use to sell the Phase II.... Jytdog (talk) 21:45, 16 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes agree that may occur. How about 6 banners that rotate around our medical content with there not being more than 6 instances? Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 03:22, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, the problem seems to be that we basically have only an on/of solution and what we need is probably something smarter able do show/hide the banner depending on visitor characteristics (languages, country, etc...). I would be interested if we have had in the past discussion/trials/researches to try to provide such a system. Kelson (talk) 10:51, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Count me in if I can offer any technical help. We obviously can't use server-side solutions like we do for QRpedia - although we could test them at WMUK - but I've been looking at language detection in browsers for another project. It's probably just the language we need to know, rather than the country, I guess.
 * If we are going to put banners on pages as a pilot, please consider trialling them on article talk pages in the first instance. I know it will be mainly reaching editors rather than readers, but considering the blow-back the WMF got from the research project appearing on article pages, I'd recommend getting as much testing done as possible on non-article pages. Only then would it be sensible to argue for a time-limited trial on article pages, and that would need a very well advertised RfC. --RexxS (talk) 15:30, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * We know that they are EN readers as they are on EN Wikipedia. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 17:47, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Although the banner says it's an offline version, it also says "access all this content when there is internet". As I understand it, after downloading the offline content is by definition accessible without internet, so probably the wording should be fixed. Brandmeistertalk  17:52, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks and fixed. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 17:56, 18 May 2016 (UTC)

Discussion at MfD (transcluded here)
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