The Android team[0] is pleased to announce a new Wikipedia Android app
beta release, v2.5.187-beta-2017-02-08[1]. This revision contains the
following new functionality and fixes[2]:
- Contribute to Wikipedia by editing title descriptions for articles
that you browse! (Powered by Wikidata, and currently enabled for
Russian, Hebrew, and Catalan Wikipedia)[3]
- Two-factor authentication support and login fixes
- Improved network performance and offline support for cached page
previews
- Better multi-window support
- Minor UI refinements to gallery and page previews
- Several major crash fixes
Included in this version are volunteer patches from The Discoverer[4]
and Dinu Kumarasiri[5], and repeat contributors Odysseas Kristalakos[6]
and Kunal Grover[7]. Woohoo!
You too can help make it better! Read our getting started guide[8]. We
can't wait for your contributions!
-The WMF Android team
[0]
https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team#Android
[1] Rolling out at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia.beta
[2] A complete list of changes is available at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/diffusion/APAW/history/master/;beta/2.5.1…
[3]
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Editing_descrip…
[4] The Discoverer, [[mw:User:The Discoverer]]
[5] Dinu Kumarasiri, IRC: sandaru,
https://github.com/sandarumk
[6] Odysseas Kristalakos,
https://github.com/OdysseasKr
[7[ Kunal Grover,
https://github.com/kunalgrover05
[8]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Android_app_ha…