Wikipedia today announced it has launched support for editing content on your mobile device. The first version of mobile editing, which requires a Wikimedia account, is available right now.
“For our first release, our primary goal was to create a fast, intuitive editing experience for new users and experienced editors alike, while still sticking with markup editing for now,” Wikimedia’s Juliusz Gonera explained. “We started simple so we could observe our users’ needs and expectations.”
Wikimedia today also revealed why it has finally decided to jump on the bandwagon: over 15 percent of Wikipedia’s users currently access the site on mobile devices. Furthermore, that fraction is growing, so the Wikimedia Foundation decided it had to “do more to let anyone with Internet access contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.”
To get started, you’ll need to sign up for a Wikimedia account if you don’t already have one; you can do so on desktop and mobile. Once you’re logged in, look for the pencil icon next to any section to make changes to it.
Juliusz further added, "Before today, users could only edit Wikipedia entries from desktop computers - however, more than 15 percent of users access the site from their mobile devices". Wikipedia saw that disconnect and decided to do more to let anyone with Internet access contribute to the sum of all human knowledge.
The foundation says it has been trying to make mobile editing work on as many devices as possible, but reiterates that this is just the first release, so some may have be patient when it comes to that.
Wikipedia has been getting a lot more useful on mobile devices lately. In addition to getting newSiri integration on iOS 7, it recently got a new “Nearby” feature to surface location-relevant content, a mobile app for Wikimedia Commons, and the ability to upload photos from mobile.
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