Wikipedia Beta

4.5
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About this app

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.

Features:

Explore feed: Recommended and constantly-updating Wikipedia content right on the home screen, including current events, trending articles, events on this day in history, suggested reading, and more. The feed is fully customizable — you can select the types of content you want to see, or rearrange the order in which different types of content appear.

Color themes: With a choice of Light, Dark, and Black themes, as well as text size adjustment, you can customize the app for the most comfortable reading experience.

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.

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.

Syncing: Enable synchronizing reading lists to your Wikipedia account.

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.

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.
Updated on
Aug 8, 2022

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4.5
34.8K reviews
Ian Elliot
September 9, 2021
Absolutely amazing application for using Wikipedia on Android. I love the beta version especially because it is very functional and features a lot of cool ways to edit and browse Wikipedia in a smooth and bug-free manner with ease. I would love to see some of the more advanced tools incorporated into this app, i.e. tools from the Wikipedia Auto editor for example. However, this is not a big downside and I do not rate it any less just because I want more options. As it stands this app is great!
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AnaE Cruz
July 16, 2020
They're busy formation is there Wikipedia Beta I love my dictionaryExplore feed: Recommended and constantly-updating Wikipedia content right on the home screen, including current events, trending articles, events on this day in history, suggested reading, and more. The feed is fully customizable — you can select the types of content you want to see, or rearrange the order in which different types of content appear. Color themes: With a choice of Light, Dark, and Black themes, as well as text .
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Mike Wiencek
March 19, 2021
I've been using this app for years and refer to it regularly--often multiple times per day. Today I gave a middling review as I noticed that some functionality I frequently used (saving an article to multiple lists) had disappeared after the last update. Mere hours later I got a response from the developer, apologizing and asking me to test the functionality again, and--sure enough--everything was back to normal. This is [once again] a great app, with very responsive developers.
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Wikimedia Foundation
March 19, 2021
Sorry about that! The issue should be fixed; please try again with today's update.

What's new

- Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
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