Hi all,

We're excited to bring you an updated version of the Wikipedia Android app, rolling out now to the Google Play Store! [1]. Here are the highlights from this update (or browse the complete change history):

- Contribute to Wikipedia by editing title descriptions for articles that you browse! (Powered by Wikidata, and currently limited to Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan Wikipedia. More languages will follow, once we analyze engagement data with this initial group of communities. If you're interested, here is the original project outline, and the rollout announcement)

- Support for two-factor authentication when logging in.

- Improved multi-window support for Samsung devices and for Android Nougat.

- Improved network performance and offline support for cached page previews.

- Minor UI refinements to image gallery, link previews, and reading lists.

- Changing the wiki language now also changes the app UI language.

- Numerous bug and crash fixes.

Special thanks to the volunteer contributors who submitted patches for this release:

The Discoverer - [[mw:User:The Discoverer]]

Dinu Kumarasiri - IRC: sandaru, https://github.com/sandarumk

Odysseas Kristalakos - https://github.com/OdysseasKr

Kunal Grover - https://github.com/kunalgrover05

If you'd like to help improve the app yourself, take a look at our getting started guide. We're looking forward to your contributions!

[1] For devices without Google Play services, you may download the app directly.

Dmitry Brant
Senior Software Engineer / Product Owner (Android)
Wikimedia Foundation
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_mobile_engineering