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

I love Wikipedia, but the functionality on the website is so much better. You can't sort the tables and the way they delineate the sections is much clunkier. There are some things like the random article feature which are cool, but it's not enough to offset the poor functionality. I look forward to re-installing this when they fix those things.

Unless Im missing something this app s**** for political race articles, what I use it for the most. The heading for a presidential race on the website shows candidates, party, results in percent and count etc, extremely useful quick glance information as well as a link to the previous and next election, the app displays none of this and requires you to scroll to the results section of the article. You have to open the website link in incognito mode to avoid using the app. Considering deleting

Mostly good but it messes up when I try to open a link from Firefox in the app, like it will display the wrong image and if I refresh it it will go to an entirely different page, which is very frustrating. Also I really don't get the 100 tab limit at all but if that has to exist it would be *very* nice to have a setting to close tabs after x days or some other way to keep them under control.

What's new

- General bug fixes and enhancements.