Hello mobile Wikimedians,

The Foundation's iOS team today published an update for the Wikipedia app to the App Store. This is the first in a series of updates focused around editing features and making a great app experience for editing, as well as reading. It also includes a good number of performance and bug fixes. Download the update here: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=324715238&mt=8

 The main feature in this version is the ability to edit Wikidata based "short descriptions" directly from the app, almost identical to the feature released on Android last year. It is available on all Wikipedias except English[1].

Thanks,

Josh Minor

Product Manager, Wikipedia for iOS

[1] - As on Android this feature is disabled for English Wikipedia articles due to community decision to override the shared descriptions with a local keyword. Read more on how this works for English here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Short_description