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/2.5.18... [3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Editing_descript... [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_hac...