Wikimedia Apps/Reading lists/Share Project

This page talks about the Apps Team work to enable users to share reading list they create in the Wikipedia apps on Android or iOS.

It contains information about the goals of this work, the past efforts that have influenced it and why sharing reading lists is one of our priorities July 2022-December 2022.

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Background and Context
In early 2016, the Apps team updated their existing Saved Pages to a new feature called Reading lists. Reading Lists allowed users to put saved articles into folders and to label and make a basic description for their folders. The original feature design included the ability for logged-in users to sync their lists across devices, using the list storing capabilities of the Collections extension. For reasons unrelated to the apps and their user's needs, these plans were paused. In early 2017 the Android team made a number of improvements to the Reading Lists feature, to make them easier to manage for users and solidify the offline saving elements, based on research identifying offline saving as a major area of focus for serving New Readers.

Reading lists has since become a popular feature, and there have been several requests over the years from the community to enable sharing reading lists with other users, and export reading lists to save to their device.