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Low data version of articles? Love Wikipedia overall!
There should be a low data version of articles, that only contain the bare text, no images, no change history or talk page for the article, etc. so that you can maybe access it when you’re on the edge of cell service. Or even just a setting in the Wikipedia app for if you’re just generally trying to save data that month.
Wikipedia is my sole and savior in these days of objective facts becoming controversial. Thank you to all the great work you do and being committed to making freely and easily accessible the entirety of human knowledge!
Also, a search widget so I can search for something directly on Wikipedia from my Home Screen would be nice. Thanks!Show lessBrialien
Doesn’t sync to icloud
You have to create an account to sync your data. I used it for years without doing that until I ran out of phone space and it dumped my app data and saved a backup of that image. Icloud doesn’t work with it at all. I managed to transfer it once while keeping two phones on at the same time. It’s really nice to drop your phone and get a new one, and the experienced is marred by downloading all your apps and find out they all worked fine but losing all your reading list and history from the wiki app. I want to be angry, but when I’m gone from this planet, I hope we relish in the fact that we left the desk messy and with our mind’s eye we could not uphold any memories or evidence of our research. Maybe my research doesn’t matter. Maybe confucius should have advised his disciples to burn all records instead of write them down. You get wikipedia. You figure it out.Show lesslame cow 123
Fantastic , did you expect me to say something else?
Of course this is an improvement upon just using Wikipedia under safari. Looks better and works just as well. Has the added bonus of a dark mode as well. I don’t use it, but I know family who would love the daily photo widget.
Only problem is that there isn’t an app for the Mac. Granted, this doesn’t apply to the app on the phone and is very nit-picky, but it seems like it would be very easy to add and there is nothing to lose except a potential profit.Show lessganahjw
Few Glitches That Need Fixing (and Others)
The Wikipedia App isn’t glitchy to the point of annoyance, given the community’s dedication, but there’s enough notable glitches for me to compile a list that hinder my experience, minor or major.
- When looking though your lists of saved articles, visual duplicates of the exact same article may appear and are inaccessible yet confusing.
- A specific apostrophe (' on my device) result in the app crashing instantly.
- Somehow, an article you just pressed the save button to will not be saved immediately, or won’t be put into a specific list. (I have over 300+ articles saved on my device so I don’t know how often this may happen to other users.)
My only other suggestion is that visual symbols that appear on the top right of Wikipedia articles that designate said article’s status (like barnstars for featured status, green plus marks for particularly good articles, or colored locks to show the topic’s current potential controversy) appear on mobile devices as well, so as to emphasize the importance and trust in articles that stand out for quality.Show lessCarlinal47
Good
Wikipedia is a great app because you can search up one topic, and it will be there! For example, if you look up Justin Bieber, than it will show all of the facts about him! And if you look up astronauts, it will show all of the facts about astronauts. Wikipedia is a super helpful tool to use to research anything that you are interested in. It is one hundred percent safe for anyone, and it doesn’t have any ads and it never glitches. I recommend you getting this. And thanks to the developer for putting so much effort in making Wikipedia possible.Show lessSidmime
Reading list bugged, fantastic otherwise
Longtime user and contributor to Wikipedia (it’s on of the greatest things on the internet). My only issue is that I habitually save articles to read later, and since I have downloaded the app, the list is littered with several duplicate links to pages I have saved, most of which the links don’t take you to the page, and instead act like dead buttons.
This app is flawless otherwise, but I find it hard to go through my saved list and keep my downloaded content to a minimum when it’s cluttered the way it is. Please fix.
Besides that’s, thank you all so much for your hard work of keeping this app so great and Wikipedia in general, an ad-free, extremely educational corner of our inter webs.Show lessTrippp1991
Wikipedia
I reinstalled Wikipedia because suddenly it was in dark mode and no matter what I did, I couldn’t get it out of dark mode. Then when I tried to reinstall it, the Wikipedia Icon wouldn’t stay on my phone. Now, whenever I want to use Wikipedia, which I use almost daily, and loved it until now, I have to go into applications and reinstall it to use it and then it disappears again. Please fix this. I am extremely frustrated. I liked it so much before that I installed it on my husband’s phone. Tell me how I can get the Wikipedia Icon back and how to go back to light mode. I am even on your editing staff, meaning I got permission to edit if I cared to do so. Please help.Show lessA True Puzzle Lover
It’s only slightly worse than just using the website
This app is basically a wrapper for the Wikipedia website, except it has less functionality. There are a number of nonsensical UI decisions to complain about, but the one that drove me to write a review is this: there is a “picture of the day” on the homepage - and absolutely no way to get to the article it comes from, nor even read the complete description if it’s more than a few words. Clicking on the picture just enlarges it and hides the description, and clicking it again goes back to the home page.
Thanks a pant load, Wikipedia.Show lessDisappointed10011001
Wikipedia is awesome
Wikipedia is like the best app I've ever downloaded. I don't know how they wrote all those articles about a lot of things. I'm surprised honestly. When I heard about it I thought it was like Google or safari or something. But now I realize how awesome the app is. I strongly recommend that you download this app. It will help you with homework, tests, quizzes, and millions of other things. If you don't have this app. Download it. You can even save your progress by signing in or signing up.Show lessCraftedMalik
I love it, but . . .
Just now I'm having tech problems with it. I was reading an article about the Adams family (a scholar, a President, politicians) in a printed magazine. That led me to the Wikipedia article about the scholar's wife's gravestone & its Saint-Gaudens bronze sculpture. In turn I found the information on a copy (unauthorized) of the sculpture, previously in a Baltimore cemetery where it was loved to excess and became an item of local urban legend. Having many years ago taught a course on folklore at a college in Maryland, I opted to save the article in my "American History" Wikipedia file.
Problem now: I can't get out of that file to Wikipedia itself! HelpDesk help requested.Show less9robins
