For folks who appreciate elements from this redesign, I'd love to humbly suggest checking out the Wikipedia iOS app from the Wikimedia Foundation.
The app supports 4 reading themes, is privacy friendly, includes: truly private reading history, trending articles, a persistent TOC on iPad, on this day in history, language and multilingual support, in the news, random articles, bookmarking and folder-ing capabilities, a way to view Wikipedia articles on an interactive map, a wikitext editor with syntax highlighting, updated article history views (with easy to read diffs), widgets, predictive search (you can even search with emojis if you please) and very soon editing notifications.
We're a small team (1.5 designers, 3 engineers, an engineering manager and a PM) and we're really passionate about making a beautiful and usable experience for readers and contributors on iOS.
I'm the lead designer/design manager and have worked on this project for five years. Commenting just as myself though (thoughts are my own and not the Foundation's), as a person who loves Wikipedia and design and is proud of the work my coworkers have done.
The Wikipedia iOS app is just about the most amazing free app I have installed on my iPhone. It's the one app that actually feels like a native platform experience, while retaining everything I like about the original on the web. Truly a shining beacon of light in our ad/tracking/Electron-laden world. So thank you, I, for one, really appreciate your work!
This app is one of my very faves and one of the first I install on a new phone. Just wanted to post to say thank you for putting so much thought into the design - getting lost in articles, creating reading lists to come back to later, being able to switch languages on the fly - it feels like being in the library as a kid again going through Britannica hardcovers, except with a better interface and search instead of an index. :)
Awesome! The mobile app is great. I’d love to see a macOS app released for the desktop with the same clean feel and speed of the mobile app.
I do have a question: Wikipedia on mobile is insanely fast. Much faster than the desktop or mobile site. What media APIs do you use to pull the content for the mobile app?
The multi language support always blows me away like being able to tab between your chosen languages when searching. Lots of simple innovations that make it clear yall put a lot of thought into it.
The app supports 4 reading themes, is privacy friendly, includes: truly private reading history, trending articles, a persistent TOC on iPad, on this day in history, language and multilingual support, in the news, random articles, bookmarking and folder-ing capabilities, a way to view Wikipedia articles on an interactive map, a wikitext editor with syntax highlighting, updated article history views (with easy to read diffs), widgets, predictive search (you can even search with emojis if you please) and very soon editing notifications.
We're a small team (1.5 designers, 3 engineers, an engineering manager and a PM) and we're really passionate about making a beautiful and usable experience for readers and contributors on iOS.
I'm the lead designer/design manager and have worked on this project for five years. Commenting just as myself though (thoughts are my own and not the Foundation's), as a person who loves Wikipedia and design and is proud of the work my coworkers have done.
If you're interested you can check the app out here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wikipedia/id324715238