# OONI Monthly Report: February 2017
February was an important month for the OONI project, as the launch of the ooniprobe mobile app for Android and iOS platforms significantly increased OONI's userbase and global coverage of censorship events. Below we provide some highlights from OONI's activities in February 2017.
## Launch of ooniprobe mobile app
On 9th February 2017 we launched our mobile app for Android and iOS platforms. The development of the apps was carried out as part of Lorenzo Primittera's OTF fellowship through support from the OONI team.
The new ooniprobe app includes network measurement tests that are designed to examine:
* Blocking of websites ("Web Connectivity" test)
* Presence of middle boxes ("HTTP invalid request line" test)
* Speed and performance of networks ("NDT" test)
This app can be installed on Android and iOS platforms through the following app stores:
* Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.openobservatory.ooniprobe
* Apple nes.apple.com/us/app/id1199566366
More information about ooniprobe's mobile apps can be found through the post that we published on the launch date: https://ooni.torproject.org/post/ooni-mobile-app/
The launch of ooniprobe's mobile app received widespread media coverage. Some news outlets that wrote about ooniprobe's mobile apps include:
* CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/08/technology/ooniprobe-censorship-mobile-app/
* Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2017/02/09/tor-projects-new-mobile-a...
* The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/ooniprobe-censorship-...
* Cyberscoop: https://www.cyberscoop.com/ooniprobe-tor-app-ios-android-censorship/
## ooniprobe mobile app: Translations and feature requests
Following the launch of ooniprobe's mobile apps, we started collecting feedback from our users and implementing feature requests. These are summarized through the following platform: https://trello.com/b/RgwVg6i8/ooniprobe-mobile-feature-requests
More feature requests can be viewed through the tickets and pull requests of the following GitHub repositories:
* https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooniprobe-ios
* https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooniprobe-android
* https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-wui
In response to community feedback, we started working on the f-droid version of ooniprobe: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooniprobe-android/issues/54. We also reviewed and edited the Citizen Lab's global test list (that is tested by ooniprobe's mobile app) quite extensively: https://github.com/citizenlab/test-lists/pull/133.
We started coordinating the translation of ooniprobe's mobile apps through support from the Localization Lab. In February, ooniprobe was translated to the following languages:
* Spanish
* French
* Italian
Work is being done on adding translations for:
* Hindi
* Arabic
We added support for translating ooniprobe's mobile apps (https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-wui/issues/31) and future releases will include translations.
## New web UI
We made progress on implementing the new web UI following the UX review. We tagged a release candidate for ooni-probe that features the new web UI and made an open call for testing: https://github.com/TheTorProject/ooni-probe/releases/tag/v2.2.0-rc.1.
## Community engagement
We have setup a slack to IRC bridge to encourage less technical users and OONI enthusiasts to join in our public discussions: https://slack.openobservatory.org/.
Starting in February we have also started to hold broader community meetings on Slack and IRC with the goal of engaging more with the wider OONI community. The logs for the last community meeting can be found here: http://meetbot.debian.net/ooni/2017/ooni.2017-02-28-15.59.log.html.
## Updated documentation
Since May 2016 we have been receiving legal consultation for the improvement of our documentation and practices pertaining to potential risks associated to the use of ooniprobe. To this end, we updated the following documentation:
* OONI Data Policy: https://ooni.torproject.org/about/data-policy/
* Risks: Things you should know before using ooniprobe: https://ooni.torproject.org/about/risks/
The above documentation not only incorporates feedback that we received through legal consultation, but also includes information pertaining to ooniprobe's mobile apps.
In addition, we published a test description for OONI's new NDT test (which is included in our mobile apps): https://ooni.torproject.org/nettest/ndt/
## Research and data analysis
In collaboration with Sinar Project, we carried out research and data analysis for our upcoming reports on Myanmar, Thailand, and Indonesia. We expect to publish these research reports within the next month.
## Userbase
OONI's userbase expanded significantly in February thanks to the launch of our mobile apps.
In February alone, ooniprobe was run 143,607 times from 2,765 different vantage points across 181 countries around the world.
This information can also be found through our stats here: https://measurements.ooni.torproject.org/stats
~ The OONI team.