Wikipedia has it for mobile visitors may be made to articles in the digital encyclopedia to edit, now more and more people Wikipedia mobile visit. Still works the functionality is not in the Dutch edition.
The ability to get components on the mobile phone to edit was already available for a group of beta testers, but is now publicly rolled out, according to a post on the blog of Wikimedia, the organisation behind Wikipedia. The functionality is, however, not yet available in the Dutch version of the digital encyclopedia. The English edition of offers the possibility.
Wikipedia says that there is a lot of time is spent on the testing of the mobile editor, and that it can be on as many devices would have to work, but did warn that it is a first version of the editor. According to the organization, to be “tentative” with the same formatting tags for the editing of articles; it is unclear whether there will later be a simpler editor, for example in the form of a wysiwyg editor.
The organization behind the encyclopedia, hopes that the mobile editor to users who have never articles have been edited, start to their first edit. Wikipedia struggling for years with a declining number of editors. In 2007 there were 56.000 editors; at the end of 2012, there were 20,000 or less, to 35,000. The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, said earlier this year that the editing of articles easier, to a diverse group of editors to attract.
