We launched the official Wikipedia application for Android almost two months ago and the response has been tremendous. We’ve had ~2.25 million installations and ~5000 ratings (with a 4.4/5.0 average). Preliminary reports also indicate about 23 million page views per month via the app. In short, it has been doing pretty well!

iOS App Launch

Today we’re excited to announce a new version of the Wikipedia app for iOS. This has all the features from our Android app, styled to be consistent with iOS:

• Search suggestions
• Full text search
• “Did you mean?” results
• Saving pages for offline viewing
• Share pages via Twitter, Facebook
• Save pages to Read It Later
• Read current page in other languages
• Map integration to view nearby articles
• View location of current article + nearby articles in a map
• Set the default language
• Navigation history features
• … and some more!

This release is based on the same code that powers our Android application – an advantage of basing our app on Apache Cordova (previously PhoneGap). This enables us to reach the most number of platforms with the least amount of code. Fully embracing HTML5, CSS3, & Javascript commits us to the open Web technologies of the future.
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