Wikipedia

FAQs

• Is Wikipedia a free app?
  It is free and open source, and currently available for download on: Android.
• Is the Wikipedia app good?
  Wikiwand. Wikipedia is thoroughly useable in a mobile browser. It's quite easy to search, browse, and read this massive repository of information with mobile Safari or what-have-you. The use case for a dedicated app is in the fact that Wikipedia isn't meant for casual reading.
• Is Wikipedia a app?
  Wikipedia's website may have been dark yesterday in protest of SOPA, but now there is a new official Wikipedia app for Android (s goog) devices. The free app is available in the Android Market for all Android smartphones and tablets running Android 2.2 or above.
• What is so bad about Wikipedia?
  There have been documented problems caused by open, anonymous gatherings of people in Wikipedia, such as the writing of vitriol (noted in 2003) or wiki-gangs (noted in July 2005). Another problem is that anyone can edit articles at any time, so people can vandalize articles, as long as they have an account.
• Why is Wikipedia not working?
  This problem is almost always caused by browser caching. ... (The Internet Explorer problem is not unique to Wikipedia; if you incorrectly see cached data here, you are probably seeing out-of-date pages on other sites too.) There are three simple workarounds you should try if you encounter this problem.
• Is there a problem with Wikipedia?
  Why Wikipedia Is in Trouble. ... For Wikipedia, this means the number of articles continues to grow rapidly, just recently surpassing 5 million on the English-language site alone, while the number of dedicated editors has been in decline since 2007. Read more: Meet the woman charged with saving Wikipedia.
• Why can't I open Wikipedia on my phone?
  Make sure your system clock is set to the right time and that you don't have any proxies or anything interfering with the network. You might try asking for help on [the technical village pump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)) . I'm a bot, bleep, bloop.
• Is there a Wikipedia app?
  Wikipedia apps from the Wikimedia Foundation are called "Wikipedia". The Android app allows editing articles directly from the app. ... The Metro-style app provides a read-only version of Wikipedia, similar to the mobile web version.
• Is there a free Wikipedia app?
  It is free and open source, and currently available for download on: Android. iOS.
• Does Wikipedia belong to Google?
  Its parent company, Alphabet, frequently uses Wikipedia content in Google search results. Facebook is also testing using Wikipedia to fight its own misinformation problem, though it informed the Wikimedia Foundation of its intentions first.
• Is there any app of Wikipedia?
  Mobile. There is a parade of apps that make Wikipedia access on a mobile device a breeze, starting with Wikipedia's own app for iOS, Android, and Windows.
• How can I install Wikipedia?
  How To Download Your Own Wikipedia
  

  • Download one of the Wiki backups. ...
  • Once that's done, download the WikiTaxi app. ...
  • Extract the WikiTaxi zipped application file to a folder of your choice.
  • Once extracted, click on the WikiTaxi_Importer.exe file.
• Is there something wrong with Wikipedia?
  Wikipedia is not a reliable source for citations elsewhere on Wikipedia. As a user-generated source, it can be edited by anyone at any time, and any information it contains at a particular time could be vandalism, a work in progress, or simply incorrect.
• Why has Wikipedia stopped?
  And that is why Wikipedia is not so great: because a huge amount of space is devoted to meaningless articles maintained by control freaks. This problem has been addressed by the proposed deletion and speedy deletion processes, which allow Wikipedia administrators to delete these articles rapidly.
• What is going on with Wikipedia?
  In 2021 the Wikimedia Foundation, which runs the more than 300 different versions of Wikipedia, plans to finalize a uniform code of conduct that details unacceptable behavior among the project's editors—including insults, sexual harassment, and doxing—and assigns corresponding punishments.
• Is Wikipedia banned?
  Since then, the only censorship option has been to block the entire site for a particular language, which has resulted in some countries dropping their bans and others expanding their bans to the entire site. Wikipedia has been blocked in China since 23 April 2019 and in Myanmar since 21 February 2021.
• Is Wikipedia app better than website?
  But the features offered by the app are more efficient and better suited for smartphone usage. So, if you are a regular Wikipedia user, its smartphone app is definitely worth trying as it does many things better than the web version. Moreover, it is of course free to use, so you can download and test it freely.
• How do I make a Wikipedia app?
  Download the Apps Get the Wikipedia iOS app from the App Store. Get the Wikipedia Android app from the Google Play Store, from F-Droid, or manually install our current or previous APKs.
• Is there an offline Wikipedia app?
  Kiwix for Android is the latest innovation in this series: This app, available from the Google Play Store or from the Kiwix website, allows users of Android-powered devices to browse offline content from Wikipedia and its sister sites.
• Which country owns Wikipedia?
  Wikipedia
• What is Wikipedia full form?
  The name "Wikipedia" is a blending of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites, from the Hawaiian word wiki, meaning "quick") and encyclopedia. Wikipedia's articles provide links to guide readers to related pages with more information.
• Who is the real owner of Wikipedia?
  Jimmy Donal Wales (born August 7, 1966), also known by the pseudonym Jimbo, is an American-British Internet entrepreneur, webmaster, and former financial trader. He is a co-founder of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the for-profit web hosting company Wikia, later renamed Fandom.
• What does Wikipedia own?
  Wikipedia's tech framework is supported by a non-profit parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation Inc, which also supports Wikipedia's sister projects, including Wiktionary (a wiki dictionary), Wikibooks (textbooks), and others, and owns all of their domain names.