Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

The Wikipedia app is not very engaging. The home feed is a great starting point but there is little change to it (even the article recommendations often stay unchanged, the In the news items only get updated very slowly, it's just one article of the day, etc).

The current events portal contains content that is recent, interesting, relevant, and the kind of content people generally find engaging. Moreover, many people are interested in reading the news. I found this task ("high" priority?) about a trivia game T371504 in the app to make it more engaging and get users to return frequently – I think the proposal here would be substantially more effective in that regard among other advantages. Items there get changed quickly and there's lots of meaningful content for every day.

Please add a tile for Current event portal contents. It would show a small tile with the upper part of the day's contents with a button to expand it to show the full day. There at the bottom there is a button to show the prior day.

It could be disabled by default. A prompt to show the tile could be shown on a 'Show more' button underneath or in the last slide of the In the news tile – this would be useful so that users discover this feature if it's not enabled by default. The full day is shown within the feed. Making it show a prior day could show it beneath the day or swap out the tile (one could also enable swiping through the days).

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

The Wikipedia app is boring. It's a tool to read up on things you already know you'd like to read about. It's bad for exploring around, the Places is a step in the right direction but shows many trivial uninteresting articles on the map without a filter feature, the feed has only few tiles which are rarely updated.

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

One can already go the Current events portal through going to some page that happens to have it and clicking on the Portal link in the See alsos or going from the Home page from a new tab to the Portal page and searching for that portal. Both and similar methods if there are any are pretty hacky ways that most users will never do...and if they do it, they may not find it again or won't do it again. It would still be missing from the feed and be on a separate page.

This could drastically increase usage of the app and make the app more engaging and interesting. It also draws some attention to Wikipedia articles relating to and in some cases about current events which integrate lots of different information and still not widely read. There are further benefits or points to add here. The main benefit is that readers start to find the Wikipedia app engaging and use it again and again in their smartphone routines.