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      The official Wikipedia Android app is designed to help you find, discover, and explore knowledge on Wikipedia. Settle a bet with a friend by doing a quick search through the app, or dive into featured articles, images, recommended articles, and more using the explore feed. With more than 39 million articles in nearly 300 languages, your favorite free online encyclopedia is now at your fingertips.

      Features:

      Explore feed - The new ‘explore feed’ offers recommended and constantly updating Wikipedia content right on the home screen, including trending articles, current events, suggested reading, and more.

      Voice-integrated search - Easily find what you’re looking for with a prominent search bar at the top of the app, including voice-enabled search on your device.

      Nearby - Learn more about what’s around you by selecting points on an interactive map to see articles related to your current and nearby location.

      Language support - Seamlessly switch to reading any language-supported Wikipedia, either by changing the language of the current article, or changing your preferred search language while searching.

      Link previews - Tap on an article to preview it, without losing your place in what you’re currently reading. Press and hold a link to open it in a new tab, allowing you to keep reading the current article without losing your place, and switch to the new tab when you're ready.

      Table of contents - swipe left on any article to bring up the table of contents, which lets you jump to article sections easily.

      Reading lists - Organize the articles you browse into reading lists, which you can access even when you're offline. Create as many lists as you like, give them custom names and descriptions, and populate them with articles from any language wiki.

      Image gallery - Tap on an image to view the image full-screen in high resolution, with options to swipe for browsing additional images.

      Definitions from Wiktionary - Tap-and-hold to highlight a word, then tap the "Define" button to see a definition of the word from Wiktionary.

      Wikipedia Zero - Access Wikipedia for Android free of data charges for participating mobile operators. (link to participating operators).

      Send us your feedback about the app! In the menu, press "Settings", then "About the Wikipedia app", then "Send app feedback".

      The code is 100% open source. If you have experience with Java and the Android SDK, then we look forward to your contributions! https://github.com/wikimedia/apps-android-wikipedia

      By using this app, you agree to the automatic transmission of crash reports to a third-party service provider. If you would like to disable this feature, please press "Settings," then toggle off "Send crash reports" under the General section.
      Explanation of permissions needed by the app: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Android_FAQ#Security_and_Permissions

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

      Crash report third-party service provider privacy policy: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement/OnlineServices/Default.aspx

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

      About the Wikimedia Foundation

      The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable organization funded mainly through donations. For more information, please visit our website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home.
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      4.4
      545,343 total
      5 372,589
      4 98,100
      3 35,230
      2 15,207
      1 24,217
      zim ilan
      The design and execution has been great. It is a great example of an intuitive and smart interface to access much; so much welcome in our vast world of apps. Seems that the Wiki decision makers removed unnecessary features (theme cross-sync) and their unnecessary permissions to the user's privacy in previous versions. Appreciate the vision.
      Eric Buckley
      Hey I would like to donate a couple dollars with my Google Wallet. Please put an option to donate through the app by making an 'in app purchase' or something. Currently by clicking 'support Wiki' it just opens internet to the list of payment options.
      nriab23
      This app has been made a lot worse by the latest update. Scrolling through lists is utterly broken. It is a lot slower and inefficient. I regret ever having downloaded the latest version. It was better before
      SJohn Max
      We should be grateful to be living in these times. Two decades​ ago, we had to go to a library for an encyclopaedia or buy one. Today, encyclopaedia is synonymous with user-updated real-time information -Wikipedia. Bookmarks offline feature is very helpful. The format, the dark mode, the panning of the main image are great. However, in dark mode, the quote block is poorly visible because the fonts are in grey and background is in white. Please review it. Example: Robinson Crusoe page. Also please improve your Windows 10 app so that tabs can sync across devices.
      Priya Ragu
      Wikipedia is really awesome. I loved it more. It helped very well for my projects and I got out of out in my project marks. This app gives me ton of knowledge. My teachers appreciated me bcause they gave me a hw and I did it perfect through wikipedia. Love this app its cool. 😆
      Brian Kloufetos
      This used to be a great app until the latest update. It works for a little bit, but then when I tried to save an article it froze. After that it says it's not responding and asks if I want to close the app. One star until this is fixed.

      User reviews

      zim ilan May 1, 2017
      The design and execution has been great. It is a great example of an intuitive and smart interface to access much; so much welcome in our vast world of apps. Seems that the Wiki decision makers removed unnecessary features (theme cross-sync) and their unnecessary permissions to the user's privacy in previous versions. Appreciate the vision.
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      Eric Buckley May 19, 2017
      Hey I would like to donate a couple dollars with my Google Wallet. Please put an option to donate through the app by making an 'in app purchase' or something. Currently by clicking 'support Wiki' it just opens internet to the list of payment options.
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      nriab23 May 7, 2017
      This app has been made a lot worse by the latest update. Scrolling through lists is utterly broken. It is a lot slower and inefficient. I regret ever having downloaded the latest version. It was better before
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      SJohn Max May 3, 2017
      We should be grateful to be living in these times. Two decades​ ago, we had to go to a library for an encyclopaedia or buy one. Today, encyclopaedia is synonymous with user-updated real-time information -Wikipedia. Bookmarks offline feature is very helpful. The format, the dark mode, the panning of the main image are great. However, in dark mode, the quote block is poorly visible because the fonts are in grey and background is in white. Please review it. Example: Robinson Crusoe page. Also please improve your Windows 10 app so that tabs can sync across devices.
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      Priya Ragu May 26, 2017
      Wikipedia is really awesome. I loved it more. It helped very well for my projects and I got out of out in my project marks. This app gives me ton of knowledge. My teachers appreciated me bcause they gave me a hw and I did it perfect through wikipedia. Love this app its cool. 😆
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      Brian Kloufetos April 25, 2017
      This used to be a great app until the latest update. It works for a little bit, but then when I tried to save an article it froze. After that it says it's not responding and asks if I want to close the app. One star until this is fixed.
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      xKodachii May 14, 2017
      This app gives me tons of knowledge. I make sure I read at least a few articles a day, and my teachers always tell me that the facts are not valid although they have upped their editing game.
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      Joey Braghieri May 13, 2017
      Wikipedia is probably the best thing to ever happen but the only issue I have is with setting up an account. I tried a few different usernames and they were all taken so I went for one with numbers and it said I can only create 6 accounts per IP Address in 24 yet I haven't even created one. Wikipedia Logic.
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      Tahia Habib Anonna May 14, 2017
      Actually obsessed with this, doing my literature and other subjects like physics, chemistry homework without this is impossible. Informations are so much helpful 👌. Works great and easy to use💟
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      Ammar Quteineh April 29, 2017
      The problem for me is that when I log-in with my Wikipedia account I can't sync or see my favorite pages that are saved in my account. Would give 5 star If I can sync my favorite pages in my account to the application and vise versa.
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      May 25, 2017
      Totally Unique but the latest version is so dumb. why have you deleted offline reading mode to just saved page and can not open it. Really bad idea.
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      Browne Sebright May 13, 2017
      The new update makes free browsing much more difficult. The homepage is nothing like the desktop homepage now and limits the number of topics you can see.
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      Panzerreichus Holzer May 2, 2017
      FIX the bug in the app that make it froze and crash when accessing a reading list or when saving an article to it. The latest update make it froze far more than the previous one. MAKE IT URGENT... AND IT BECOMES MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE PREVIOUS ONE.
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      Pavan Shankar May 15, 2017
      From the last update ,I cannot view saved pages when not connected to internet ,try to solve the problem so we can read saved pages without net. Otherwise it's good app..
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      Pawan Sharma May 1, 2017
      I have an account on this app, now i forgot my password.I wanna sign in back but there are no option for any help or forget password.
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      Fábio H. May 5, 2017
      The latest update (2.5.195) broke several features. The reading list does not use inertial scrolling anymore; I can't set the entire list for enabling or disabling offline content, now I have to disable downloading article by article. This is very annoying when you have a lot of articles in a reading list.
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      JV Boswell May 22, 2017
      I loved the offline use until an update in April. Now I cannot add any info for offline and it takes a long time to open which is very disappointing
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      malte hermann April 30, 2017
      What would be lovely for the Wikipedia App: A function that enables the reader to click and hold on unknown terms which causes a small window with a short definition sentence or with a translation of foreign or ancient words to pop up immediately within the opened article. So when you work through complicated texts with lots of expert or scientific words you can make your way through it faster and additionally learn quicklier new word meanings within the context of the sentences without having to open extra tabs and switch between them or even miss this learning process due to lazyness of atcually doing this uncomfortable extra research. The "immediate word definition pop up window" would accelerate and make this research process mkre comfortable as well as increasing knowledge connectivity effects! As a database for short definitions/translation of latin etc terms common dictionary content could be used
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      Evelyn Springfield May 7, 2017
      Wikipedia has always been a life saver, tho there's some lack or misinformation but good enough, I'm gonna give this app 5 stars and a thumb up :D
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      Jeff Hotes May 12, 2017
      Featured articles widget is broken, after pressing on the widget the (wiki)browser blocks the title page and other information with the navigation bar.
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      Matthew Han May 17, 2017
      Can be buggy sometimes, doesn't load a page that definitely exists, sometimes loads the wrong page, but easy to get used to, and better than competing apps I've tried for viewing Wikipedia so far.
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      Siraj ISMAM May 1, 2017
      It's really a helpful app.we can easily get any information with the pictures and also has multi language s so we understand the topics very easily. we can save the pages and read offline.
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      Yekta Oz May 8, 2017
      PLEASE Make the lists save to account. i updated my rom and BAAM! everything has gone!
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      Sojan Mathew May 4, 2017
      Earlier version has theme settings for night mode. Finding it difficult to read in night in this version due to white background.
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      Santhosh Kurla April 25, 2017
      Articles are not saving offline in this new update. This is really annoying me.
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      Star Light May 8, 2017
      But I've a question. If I sign in. Does this app syns all my offline pages for me? 'cause I using many device. And I want sync function so I can read on any-device I want without searching it again.
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      Wikimedia Foundation June 30, 2014
      I do not believe this capability is in place. However, thank you for the feedback - I'm adding this to a document tracking feature requests.
      Pasan Rajadasa May 18, 2017
      Slow to load pages, way slower than the mobile site. Recently when I try to open links on a page using 'open in a new tab', the whole thing crashes. What a mess. I don't why I should use this ahead of the mobile site.
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      Ahmed Raza Khan May 4, 2017
      While varifying account every time it shows wrong captcha. Make more user freindly this app
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      Christopher Donaghue May 29, 2017
      Lost loads of features with an update a few months ago. Now the sidebar is gone, so I don't know how to view my browsing history, and while I can save pages for offline reading, I no longer have access to a list of such saved pages as I once did, while all those I had saved prior to the update seem to be gone. Terrible, awful update! Lastly, every time I get off the app and use a different one, then return to Wikipedia, I am back at the main page. So annoying.
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      mpradhap civil April 30, 2017
      I basically love wiki and julian assange Hai wikifoundation team add more features like im not interested on particular topic..why you r support the cinema its not to present
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      David Torrance May 26, 2017
      Bring back version 2.2.147, it's less cluttered and you can select a black background, which is ideal for night time reading.
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      armaan oberoi May 27, 2017
      It is a relly nice encyclopedia but PROBLEM IN EDITING ARTICLES Whenever I try to edit, the article is edited but after 2 - 3 hours it appears as previous one If you fix this I will give you a 5star rating
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      May 3, 2017
      Why Wikipedia doesn't allow the Downloading the page to my Desktop any longer? This has always been allowed up until say 6, 7 possibly a year ago. So what's the deal?
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      Alan Squire May 25, 2017
      No longer allows me to save ANY new offline articles since last update. As soon as I disconnect from WiFi and check the article, I get "Cannot connect to internet"... So USELESS for me! I'll be transferring previously saved articles to something else... and GETTING RID OF THIS!
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      Pedro Santos May 22, 2017
      The App, in general, is great with the exception that, in my case, I can't save the articles offline. You should also launch an update with night mode. But hey! Congrats and thank you.
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      A Google User May 24, 2017
      Good especially with offline feature. What is missing is sync of reading lists across devices or a possibility to export/import offline lists
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      Undru Ise May 27, 2017
      Can you please add a feature for automatically or manually updating my reading lists or saved articles
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      Ethan Pavel April 29, 2017
      Not working properly after an update. Can't open my reading list. So just one star.
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      Kultaran Singh May 3, 2017
      Full screen mode should be there for landscape reading At the top bar takes much space it creates disturbance while reading Otherwise app is great
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      Dhirendra M. Bhatt April 28, 2017
      We used to search everything in wikipedia so we know how good it is.No comments need to describe it.
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      What's New

      - Substantial improvements to the reading lists UI
      - Multiple reading list articles can now be selected at once
      - Individual reading list articles can now be toggled on/offline.
      - Images are now cached for offline availability
      - Random feed card now pulls a random article from the user's reading lists when offline
      - Many other bug fixes and UI updates

      Additional information

      Updated
      April 24, 2017
      Size
      Varies with device
      Installs
      10,000,000 - 50,000,000
      Current Version
      Varies with device
      Requires Android
      Varies with device
      Content Rating
      PEGI 3
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