Hello, The beta of the next version (5.3.0) of the Wikipedia app for iOS is now available to beta testers on TestFlight.

This beta includes a few significant improvements: - Support for simplified and other Chinese character preferences for zh Wikipedia - Major improvements in the loading and scrolling speed of the Explore feed, and use of the feed API developed by the Android team[1] - Support for widgets on iOS 9 - In the News items from the Main page now included in the feed (see also Android) - Improved presentation of citations on iPad (phone coming in next beta) - Trending In the News push notification…

*About Notifications* The iOS beta is also piloting a push notification[2] option for users. If the user is interested, the app will notify them of new In the news items from their primary language which meet a page view threshold. You can 3D press the notifications to see more info, or tap through to read more.

This kind of content notification is a new concept for the Wikipedia apps and we look forward to hearing from you and our users whether we should keep it, and how to make it better.

*To sign up for the beta,* please go here: https://goo.gl/forms/ ifUKBVGgXzkbNv4q1

*If you are in the beta,* your feedback about the notifications is very much requested here: https://goo.gl/forms/REUQALjHCdAyQIP83

Thanks, Josh

[1] See this blog post for more about the feed and API https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/07/28/wikipedia-android-redesign/ [2] See previous list announcement (https://lists.wikimedia.org/ pipermail/mobile-l/2016-June/010254.html) and blog post ( https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/06/17/wikipedia-mobile/) about the potential directions and plans for content notifications on apps