Readers/Status updates/2017-07

This is the monthly update for 2017-07

Discussions

Apps

• Development of ZIM file and offline compilations support continues.
• Continuing to work on improved Reading lists feature, addressing user reports and preparing for syncing functionality.
• We're working on an initial set of downloadable compilations to be available in the Android app.
• For iOS we'll be releasing version 5.6 next week, and are just wrapping up testing.
• Version 5.6 of iOS features sepia and dark reading modes, On this day timelines and public domain Wikipedia themed stickers for iMessage

Web

• We found and reported a quite serious bug in the Firefox browser.
• We're working on some style improvements to the print styles of desktop pages and PDFs.
• Page previews is coming to all wikis excluding German and English!
• We're working on allowing Page previews to display html previews
• We're considering adding a namespace filter to Special:ShortPages. Would this be useful to people? Please let us know!

New Readers

• New Reader updates can be found at Meta.

Multimedia

• We identified must-do 3D tasks in anticipation of a future launch, and have a few outstanding bugs to resolve before being feature complete. An additional Wikilegal discussion on 3D has been initiated; depending on the outcome some interface changes may be required before launch.

Discovery

The Discovery team provides weekly updates. Here are their updates for the month.

• 2017-07-03
• 2017-07-10
• 2017-07-17
• 2017-07-24

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