Reading team updates April 2016 - July 2016

General:

 * Still a bit early but a ready space is available for planning for Q2 (from Sept 2016 to Nov 2016. Both the team and the community are welcome to add their suggestions, ideas, or requests to the page here.

Web (Desktop and Mobile):

 * After early community discussion and votes, now the language switcher is ready to move from beta to stable on mobile web in early August. The button has moved from the bottom to the top of the page, please check the change screen Language switching button on mobile.png
 * The team has been working on improvements for lazy loading of images, a web trend that makes image loading faster on slow connections.  Currently the team is analyzing the lazy loading after  enabling on Japanese Wikipedia
 * Wrapped up a collaborative community consultation around making Wikipedia more interactive for reader. Documentation of process and lessons learned is here
 * Hovercards is progressing, while keeping an eye on lessons learned. After running on stable on Hungarian Wikipedia, the team is currently planning the launch on stable to another Wikipedia for testing.
 * The team would like to help readers learn more information about their topic of interest as quickly as possible by adding Wikidata Descriptions to underneath the title. More info on the topic is here
 * New readers is a scope of work that has been lead by the Reading team. Check out more on their progress and updates here.

Apps:

 * [Android] Adding an explore feed as beta feature. Explore feed is a new way to discover Wikipedia content!
 * [iOS] Version 5.0.5 is available for download in the app store, with better stability and enhanced performance

Previous Updates

 * October 2015 updates
 * August 2015 updates
 * Nov 2015 - Jan 2016 updates