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=32471523…
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