Wikipedia Beta
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About Wikipedia Beta
Welcome to Wikipedia Beta for Android! You can install Wikipedia Beta alongside your current version of Wikipedia for Android, so you can test our new features before they go live for all Wikipedia for Android users. Your feedback will help us fix bugs and decide what features to focus on next.
Please help us improve this app by leaving feedback here or sending a note to our mailing list, mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org.
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.
Please help us improve this app by leaving feedback here or sending a note to our mailing list, mobile-android-wikipedia@wikimedia.org.
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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App History & Updates
What's Changed
- 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
- 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
More downloads Wikipedia Beta reached 1 000 000 - 5 000 000 downloads
More downloads Wikipedia Beta reached 500 000 - 1 000 000 downloads
Version update Wikipedia Beta was updated to version 2.0-beta-2015-03-23
Version update Wikipedia Beta was updated to version 2.0-beta-2014-11-03
What are users saying about Wikipedia Beta
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Adds significant functionality over the browser interface. Being able to preview the beginning of another article beneath the article you're reading is extremely useful. Please improve your other apps similarly!***After much time, again: This is significantly better than in a browser. It's far, far better than your universal Windows app. Please upgrade that to match this. (And allow it to be more screen-size aware.) This is the best way to read Wikipedia - not only on a phone, but period. The preview feature is invaluable and could be expanded upon on in your browser version.
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Nice app. It would be good if you could ad feature of the history that have happened on a particular day. Any events or birthdays which fall on a particular day.
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Good App works fine on my Samsung Galaxy S8+ & Samsung Galaxy Tab S3.
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Overall fluid experience. Would like the addition of night mode/dark theme for the front page and ability to edit and submit articles on the go.
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Bestest but must needed data sync to account.
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It's an awesome app. I CANT SAY IT IN WORDS. Hope you people will take this app further and improve more.
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No night mode - this is a dealbreaker for me. I mostly read at night, and a bright white page hurts my eyes. :-(
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Love the app generally, but a dark theme would definitely set it over the top
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Always crashes please fix
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آغای موهطررررم لزومی نداشت خودتوبیشترازاین معرفی کنی بااین ادبیات همه میدانندکه چه باوری را نمایندگی میکنی وکجاوچگونه گونده شدی وپیش چه شخصی تل ل م موزخوردی و هاف فزشدی توآینه بادقت بشتری نگاه کن نقش توبنمودراست خود شکن آینه شکستن خطاست فکرکن نوشته ی توراشایدخانوادت هم ببینه امیدوارم اینگونه ادبیات راکه مدت زمانیست رایج شده به حساب مردم نجیب و شکیبای میهن عزیزم نگذارندباسپاس
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Turk here. Add a mirror option or something... It is beta after all.
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It's a very important anduseful app for us...it describes in a better way as I want...
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More information about space.
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Huge improvement.
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Fine app I liked its feature to save articles
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Best app everyone must have
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Snappy and well-designed.
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Great encyclopedia!
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most useful apps
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Excellent, would be 5/5 if, for the mathematics pages, the equations were the correct size. Currently they are too small. Otherwise. Gr8 m9
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No substantial improvement to the truthfullness of egalitarians
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我喜欢这界面
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Nice
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Very useful application, good for saving offline. But sometimes in case of articles of mathematics, the formulas don't get saved offline and thus creates difficulty. Otherwise, it's fantastic.
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I like Wikipedia.... But the interface doesn't facilitate the desire to read... Please make it more lively and colorful for 5 stars.. Keep up the good work.
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Easy translation option for article is good, very useful. After exploring contents down the page. There's no option to reach top page at once, need to scroll. Provide a helpful option like 'Home' button.
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Ramanujan wasn't an inventor xD as one of your pics showing the app indicates. Weird Wikipedia misplaces a fact on their app page.
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Search results take very long to load despite otherwise good internet connection.
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It's a great app but I don't necessarily need it. Wanted to review beta. Works well, has option to copy link - great for posting to Facebook.
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It's really good but in this app offline mode is not available so you should make.
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Excellent. Visually appealing and so informative. Many great features.
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I still miss the old Wikipedia app.
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can't be opened by Firefox
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Traditional Chinese shows simplified instead, no way to change
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A want to kwnoledge
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This app is awesome. //no extra comments needed
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It is very nice app to read article and much more...
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Love it!
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If Wikipedia were just another wiki, then maybe one of those apps that tries to connect you to every wiki on the web would do just fine but we all know that just isn't the case. The world's best information portal deserves a dedicated app and this one delivers. It works just as well as using Chrome (unlike most wiki apps) but with far less overhead and clutter.