Congratulations to the Mobile Apps Android team on their first release of the new app!
iPhone users, rest assured we're hard at work polishing up the iOS version, which brings the same updated feature set. Expect it in the next few weeks... -- brion On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > If you love Wikipedia and have an Android phone, you’re in for a treat! > Today we’ve released a revamped Wikipedia for Android app, now > available on Google > Play <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia>. > > Our new features include: > > - *Speed* – Our new, native app allows you to browse and edit Wikipedia > faster than ever before. > - *Editing* – You can edit Wikipedia on the app. Logged in or logged > out, we thank you for all your contributions. > - *Recent pages* – We provide you with your reading history, so you can > tap as many links as you like without ever getting lost. > - *Saved pages* – You can save select pages for offline reading and > browse them even when you don’t have a data connection. > - *Share* – Use your existing social networking apps to share in the sum > of all human knowledge. > - *Language support* – The app allows you to seamlessly switch to > reading Wikipedia written in any language. > - *Wikipedia Zero* – We’ve partnered with cellular carriers around the > world to provide Wikipedia free of data charges to users in many > developing > areas. > > Coming soon: > > - *Night mode* – We’ve gotten lots of great beta user feedback; one > feature people love is reading Wikipedia in darker environments. The > inverted colour scheme offered by night mode will make that much easier. > - *Discussions* – Talk pages are an important part of Wikipedia for both > new users and experienced editors alike. We’re bringing them to the app. > > This release is just the beginning! We’re still working hard on creating > new features to make the app the best Wikipedia reading and editing > experience out there. > > Please help us improve this app by sending a note to our mailing list, > mobile-android-wikipe...@wikimedia.org. > > Thank you! > > Dan > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
