Hello,
Now, in the app store, version 5.7.3 of Wikipedia for iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/view Software?id=324715238&mt=8
In addition to a lot of small bug fixes, this version includes a handful of appearance improvements:
- New "Black" reading theme, perfect for saving power on OLED devices - Appearance option to have info boxes open by default (thanks to volunteer Aclaussen!) - Hiding of the top navigation bar while reading, to make more uncluttered reading space
You should also see faster article loading and less data use, thanks to lazy loading of images and other page loading improvements. Now images are only downloaded when about to be displayed (or saved). Extra big thanks to the Readers Web and Android teams who pioneered this change for all our users. With this release all the mobile Wikipedia experiences share this great improvement [1].
Extra big thanks to contributors Aclaussen and Onlyrandomness for their code patches. And our usual thanks to our testers and translators.
Happy holidays, Josh Minor PM, Wikipedia for iOS
[1] - For more on this, and the general efforts to consolidate efforts across platforms check out this great blog post by Stephen Niedzielski about the Wikimedia Page Library: https://blog. wikimedia.org/2017/12/06/think-twice-code-once/