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WikiArt Project

Online Encyclopedia of Fine ART

Katya Nerush, Oct 6 2015, Ladies Who Code meetup

kate.nerush@gmail.com, @knerush

About Myselfnow - iOS developer

Web Developer in Finance

Moved to London in 2009

Coding jobs since 2005

MS in Computer Science - Kiev, Ukraine

What is WikiArtwhat: encyclopedia of art

why: popularize art

how: wiki principle

collected:

2500+ artists,

170 000 artworks

~1 Million Monthly Active Users

Web Stats..

~25k Monthly Active Users

Zero Marketing

Pillars of WikiArt designOffline-like experience

Content over design

Maximize user time spent in the app

Pillars of WikiArt designOffline-like experience

image cache

data persistence

Content over design

simple navigation,

plain vanilla controls

Maximize user time spent in the app

content discovery features - map, charts, randomized home screen

endless browsing - deep linking, wikipedia link

Architecture & Tech Challenges

Tech stack: Objective-C, uses Pods, Python

Challenges:

image cashing

data persistence

custom layouts

used Python to obtain data needed

Thank you!