Revealing What's Inside the Fourth Edition of the Wikipedia Mobile Apps Newsletter!
Discover the latest updates, improvements, and new content in our newsletter, ensuring you stay informed for an enhanced mobile Wikipedia experience.
iOS
From the end of August to October 2023
- The iOS suggested edits feature, originally successful on Android, is now being developed for iOS. This expansion aligns with the Product & Technology organization's goals for the 2023–2024 fiscal year, with a specific target of increasing mobile contributions by 10% without reversion. This move responds to the growing demand for a similar content creation and maintenance tool on Apple devices.
- The team released 7.4.1 in August, which included:
- The ability to Undo and Rollback edits on Diff Pages!
- The addition of Tachelhit Language Wiki.
- We also improved language variants for Chinese and Serbian languages.
- In October, 7.4.2 was released, which included the following:
- Watchlist on iOS: We've heard your requests! You can now access your Watchlist through Settings → Account → Watchlist. Add new items to your Watchlist via the new overflow menu in the Article View. Take actions on edits by clicking a username on the Watchlist view, or take actions like "Thank" on the diff screen of an edit in your list.
- Article Section Sharing: Want to send someone to a specific section in an article? Click a section in the table of contents and then click "Share" via the article overflow menu.
- Bug Fixes to ensure you can swipe without the app freezing and that the navigation bar doesn't shrink or disappear.
Thank you for volunteering developers Serguitar, jhsoby, agray, Nikki, TiagoLubiana.dijkstra.and revolter for their contributions to this release.
Android
From the end of August to October 2023
- The team is actively working on reinstating the nearby feature due to the high volume of requests we've received. You can find comprehensive tracking details for this effort on Phabricator T347201.
- We have released the Image Recommendation feature to the Wikipedia Beta.
- We have been working on developing the Patroller Tasks, and most of the screens have passed the design reviews.
- Bug fixes and minor improvements:
- Fixed possible crashes on Android 14 devices.
- Fixed some view styles related to the Material Design, which includes toolbar and dialog.
- Introduced more text-highlighted features to the search results across the app.
- Introduced the Wikitext keyboard support to the talk page interfaces.
Community meetings
We would like to invite you to an online meeting with the mobile apps team. It will take place on the 27th of October at 5 p.m. UTC (check your zone’s exact time).
The host will be Jazmin Tanner, the product manager of the apps team, with a number of our software engineers; you can join the meeting.
Feel free to share your questions and thoughts about Wikipedia’s mobile apps on the Wikimedia Apps/Office Hours page on mediawiki.org. We would love to hear from you. The last date to add your input will be on the 24th of October at 12:00 UTC. If you'd like a one-day reminder before the meeting, simply add your username on the same link, and we'll send you one.
We will be waiting for you all!
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-- ARamadan-WMF 09:46, 17 October 2023 (UTC)