Excellent work, all. On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Joshua Minor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello again mobile wikimedians, > > This morning the 5.0.0 update to the Wikipedia Mobile iOS app went live on > the App Store[1]. As previously described on list[2], and on wiki[3], this > is a major overhaul to the app, focusing on making a great browsing, search > and reading experience for app users. > > Features include: > > - New Explore feed for browsing and discovering content > - Simplified and touch friendly navigation, including 3D touch > shortcuts > - Convenient multilingual search, and integration with iOS Spotlight > - Clean and modern visual design and reading experience > > For more, check out this WMF blog post[4] or watch this short demo video > on Commons[5]. > > We've also been getting very positive press in many tech news outlets, > including: > > - Venture Beat [6] > - Engadget [7] > - The Next Web [8] > > 5.0.0 is just the beginning of a new road to making an iOS app Wikipedians > and can be really proud of, and readers will love. We know we have > longstanding needs like text size adjustment and find-in-page that are > still missing. We also need to get better at accessibility. And, sadly, our > editing features remain minimal. But,we think this is a solid foundation we > can build on. > > This was truly a team effort by the WMF iOS team, and many other staff > (particular thanks to Communications, Research and Analytics). And of > course thanks again to our code contributors, translators and beta testers. > > Feedback can be sent from in the app (open the Settings, then tap "Write > to us"), chat us on freenode IRC at #wikimedia-ios, or talk on our team's > MediaWiki page[9]. > > [1] - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia-mobile/id324715238?mt=8 > [2] - > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2015-December/010011.html > [3] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Why_5 > [4] - https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/10/new-wikipedia-app-ios/ > [5] - > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Wikipedia_Mobile_5.0_for_iPhone_and_iPad.webm > [6] - > http://thenextweb.com/apps/2016/03/10/wikipedias-new-redesigned-ios-app-full-neat-factoids/ > [7] - http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/10/wikipedia-ios-app-redesigned/ > [8] - > http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/10/wikipedias-new-ios-app-focuses-on-discovery-personalization/ > [9] - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS > > > Cheers, > Josh Minor > Product Manager > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > >
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