Wikipedia

Wikimedia Foundation

About this app

The best Wikipedia experience on your Mobile device. Ad-free and free of charge, forever. With the official Wikipedia app, you can search and explore 40+ million articles in 300+ languages, no matter where you are.

== Why you'll love the this app ==

1. It's free and open
Wikipedia is the encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Articles on Wikipedia are freely licensed and the app code is 100% open source. The heart and soul of Wikipedia is a community of people working to bring you unlimited access to free, reliable and neutral information.

2. No ads
Wikipedia is a place to learn, not a place for advertising. This app is made by the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia. We provide this service in the pursuit of open knowledge that’s always ad-free and never tracks your data.

3. Read in your language
Search 40 million articles in over 300 languages in the world’s largest source of information. Set your preferred languages in the app and easily switch between them when browsing or reading.

4. Use it offline
Save your favorite articles and read Wikipedia offline with “My lists“. Name lists as you like and collect articles across different languages. Saved articles and reading lists are synced across all your devices and are available even when you do not have internet connectivity.

5. Attention to detail and night mode
The app embraces Wikipedia’s simplicity and adds delight to it. A beautiful and distraction-free interface lets you focus on the essential: reading articles. With text size adjustment and themes in pure black, dark, sepia or light, you can choose the most pleasant reading experience for you.

== Broaden your horizon with these features ==

1. Customize your Explore feed
"Explore" lets you see recommended Wikipedia content including current events, popular articles, captivating freely-licensed photos, events on this day in history, suggested articles based on your reading history, and more.

2. Find and search
Quickly find what you're looking for by searching within articles or with the search bar at the top of the app. You can even search using your favorite emojis or voice-enabled search.

== We'd love your feedback ==

1. To send feedback from the app:
In the menu, press "Settings", then, in the "About" section, tap "Send app feedback".

2. If you have experience with Java and the Android SDK, then we look forward to your contributions! More info: https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/App_hacking

3. Explanation of permissions needed by the app: https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Android_FAQ#Security_and_Permissions

4. Privacy policy: https://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_policy

5. Terms of Use: https://m.wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use

6. About the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable nonprofit organization that supports and operates Wikipedia and the other Wiki projects. It is funded mainly through donations. For more information, please visit our website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/

Ratings and reviews

Wikipedia and its app have become a truly mobile encyclopedia. The reading experience is excellent: text size can be adjusted; color presets for day, night and long-time reading are available; images and tables are correctly positioned and displayed. Clicking on an image will take you to a gallery where you can view and read images captions for the article. Clicking on a link will show you an abstract of the article, allowing the user to understand better the main article. Thank you <3

The app is really good for readers of Wikipedia. But I'm a new editor who has been trying to edit from mobile. The experience we get on browser is really bad so I switched to the app. But it's just as bad here. The mobile app is smooth and modern and has almost no visible bugs. Great! But it lacks a lot of essential features that are available on browser. E.g. Sandbox, Suggested edits (exists in a different form), Account settings, Themes for Help: pages. The editor experience is bad NGL.

It has little to no bugs, it is also user friendly, and most importantly it does what it's supposed to do, which is displaying Wikipedia pages (and it doesn't just slightly modify the HTML like other apps do making you feel like you're just using a browser - mind you some apps do that poorly as well). It ACTUALLY displays the articles, and they look great as well. I couldn't have asked for anything better.

What's new

- General bug fixes and enhancements.