Reading/Web/Mobile Beta

Starting in 2011 the mobile team split the experience on *.m.wikipedia.org to incorporate multiple views. We continued to surface the default view that everyone was used to and also added a new 'beta' view that offered new and experimental feature sets. Since launch we've tracked released features on our history page and our users have enjoyed early access to what were working on. The idea of the beta came from a team discussion about testing experimental and unfinished features in a production environment requiring little to no hurdles for our testers to use. We needed a place to try out new features quickly with no commitment that they would ever stay around.

Currently you can enable the beta for your device if you follow the following link link. In the future you'll be able to opt in right from the nav interface.

There are some important considerations to make with the beta as both a user and developer.

= User =


 * Features that are in the beta can and usually do get added and removed as necessary. If appropriate we'll notify users if their data will be removed but most things are added/removed with no notification.
 * Expect breakage. Seriously. As a beta user your getting to see our newest work without having to wait for us to polish it to work on every phone in the world. This means we limit our testing to the following list and release it as quickly as we can.
 * We do this to hear your feedback. The more you tell us the more we can steer the project to incorporate your thoughts. You'll miss out big time if you opt into the beta but don't give us feedback.

= Developer =


 * HOW TO WRITE CODE FOR THE BETA