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Today we want to make a short article to remember the existence of Wikipedia, the collaboration service par excellence. Known and used by everyone ever had access to the internet in his life! However, perhaps not everyone knows that in addition to being able to use them via the web through their mobile version it is also possible install their official application.
The importance of Wikipedia
Wikipedia it's a online encyclopedia or perhaps it would be better to say is there online encyclopedia. Born in 2001 from the idea of Jimmy Wales And Larry Sanger. One of the two founders, Jimmy Wales, recently also created a new project called WT Social. A kind of hybrid between a blog and a social networks. Has declared of wanting to fight the fake news on social media, a complicated goal to achieve but we wish him all the luck possible! Even Wikipedia, if we think about it, is a mammoth and crazy project.
Try to think if someone had told you about it 30 years ago, you would almost certainly have thought they were crazy and most of us wouldn't have given them a penny. And then we like utopian projects, as ours too it is a little!
Open source and free
The Wikipedia app could only be obviously free and free as it is the entire Wikipedia project. Its application has some very interesting features: in addition to being able to freely browse the entire online encyclopedia, it is possible to save, for a offline reading, all the items that interest us. Furthermore, the optimization and display of the pages is really excellent and the loading is therefore effective very fast!
Let us always remember, however, that Wikipedia is there server to maintain, staff to pay and if they aren't there tracers and advertising is only and exclusively thanks to donations of all of us. Think about that second this list Wikipedia is among the top ten most visited sites in the world.
Just imagine the cost of maintaining such a colossal operation. And, I imagine, the temptation that the two founders might have to sell everything to some multinational 1.
Application download
• • • •Alternatives to the Wikipedia application
There are several applications for reading Wikipedia, for example on Android we find:
- WikipOff to download and read Wikipedia offline
- Kiwix, this is also another reader for Wikipedia without internet connection
Finally, one last gem: the existence of Wikiless, an alternative frontend for Wikipedia.
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