Wikipedia Reviews

by Cc4353

I downloaded this app as soon as I realized there was an app, I used to love just learning new things in school by scrolling through random articles on this site. After so long without using it I wanted to try it out, maybe even eventually contribute. However on trying to make an account, I received a message in app telling me my IP address was blocked for vandalism by a another user.

Not only have I never had an account on this app. This phone is three months old, my router is new, my computer is new. So how would my IP address even be blocked for something? Again, I haven’t used this site in years, simply haven’t had a need to. Much less to vandalize. Seriously?

this app seems to like the image that they are in constant risk of bankruptcy. Maybe if you weren’t banning people before they even stepped foot on your site it wouldn’t be an issue. What a disappointment.

by Lame Cow 123

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 this app. You figure it out.

by Njokub

I tried to create an account today. Then I received some strange message that account(s) created from my IP address is blocked by somebody or -thing named MaterialScientist due to “long term abuse”. I have no idea what or who that is or what you are talking about. There is no customer service contact and no other way to reach you. So I wrote this review.

I always feel that technology just like any corporation or entity is run by people who sometimes get a little overzealous perhaps feeling that they hold a lot of power due to their knowledge. So that being said, let’s try not abuse your power of knowing how to block people for false reasons because the 21st century has provided us the ability to control and play (power trip).

Basically ... have absolutely NO idea who MaterialScientist is ... thank God for small favors.

by Floofysheep

After writing this, i will have deleted Wikipedia in favour of the website. This is for one reason: convenience, its way easier to find and go to a specific part of an article on the site rather then Wikipedia . Let’s use the page on, Visby Sweden as an example. On the website, when you scroll down below the general information, you get headers like: “etymology”, “history”, “climate”, and “infrastructure”, you can then tap on one or more of these things to open that/those specific section(s). On Wikipedia , you cannot do this. Let’s say i want to get to the “infrastructure” section, i now have to scroll down through the “etymology” through “climate” sections of the article just to get to the section I want to read. Why, why isn’t Wikipedia like the mobile version of the website?

I have checked the settings to see if this was something i had to turn on, I couldn’t find it, either i am missing something (if so deepest apologies) or this simple feature doesn’t exist.

Kindest regards - Fluffysheep

by UPSY42q

I don't understand why Wikipedia is always so slow to load articles (up to half a minute) when my iPhone' Safari and Chrome load them in seconds. It's also disappointing that you can't access the talk page on articles before editing them. I often just prefer to read a this app article in Safari and open Read Mode. That's really all Wikipedia is, "Read Mode for this app", except that Safari already has that covered.
I like that I can bookmark articles, but you can only save them to one list at a time. It would be better if we could add tags to saved articles, so that we can search and group them later using different criteria. For instance, the article on Albert Einstein could be found in all of the following lists instead of just one: #History #Science #Physics #Scientists #Biographies #20thCentury #Nobel

by VigilanteSilver

I love Wikipedia . I use it daily. It’s got almost everything right but there’s a few things I’d like to see:

-Better image/map/language/etc rendering, particularly in dark mode, in which charts, maps, and interactive content often don’t appear properly.
-Main page access with a quick access solution instead of having to search for it and bookmark it. The Today feature is ok but I’m more of a fan of the at-a-glance version.
-WYSIWYG and/or as-you-read editor. Anymore I rarely wiki at my computer and am always on Wikipedia . I’m a member of the copyediting guild and editing as I read when I see a typo or something is really cumbersome on Wikipedia .

by PolloTec

If you’re looking for convenience this is probably good enough, but sometimes you may not really get the full picture when using the mobile app as compared to the desktop browser view for a few reasons listed below:

For example, the side bar is much too large and does not auto-size for the content contained in it, so you can end up with far too much white space in the contents bar and no ability to adjust the split with the main window.

Also, you do not get the right-side quick facts info bar front and center by default that is super convenient on the desktop site for many articles that contain links, top info, and media (the developer responded and showed me where to enable a setting for this to auto-expand by default on every article: thank you!). But, I still prefer the location and view of the quick facts bar on the browser version, it just seems more consistent and familiar in a specific place.

Finally, support for charts and sheets is sometimes lacking compared to the desktop site, I look forward to more usability on this

It’s pretty close to a five star app, and I look forward to continued updates...

by Jeremygerthegreenoverseeer

I love this app, I think it is a great resource and I find myself using it daily. But when I use Wikipedia and I end up going through ‘deep dives’ of going from article to article I eventually want to all the way back to the menu to look at my saved articles, the top read, etc. I don’t know of any other way to get back to the menu other than hitting the ‘back’ button in the top left over and over.

I therefore am issuing a call to action of adding a faster way to back out of all articles to the front menu. PLEASE this is the only thing wrong with Wikipedia and it bothers me every time I have to hit the back button 20+ times.

by Trippp1991

Longtime user and contributor to this app (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 Wikipedia , 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.

Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia so great and this app in general, an ad-free, extremely educational corner of our inter webs.

by Adventure_tense

I think that this is a great app overall. The team has found some nice ways to engage us to learn. Here is my hang up I have with it. I have a daily communication email that I send out each day, and I like to conclude with an interesting “on this day” factoid. this app has this, so I try to use it. The problem is that it’s like watching the evening news, it highlights all horrible milestones of the human race, people who were killed, massacres, etc. I’m not saying that these aren’t important to include, but how about adding a few positives to balance life out a bit? The day we broke the sound barrier? Great inventions and milestones? A little hope wouldn’t hurt.

by Carlinal47

The this app 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 Wikipedia 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 this app 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.

by Vk. H.

Wonderful to read any content on Wikipedia with so many useful features. While using Wikipedia I felt that it better than many other popular book apps because of it’s features and content.

There is ONE feature which certainly I am missing is making NOTES and FLASH CARD within Wikipedia . This feature doesn’t take much cost to implement but provide huge benefit to the users. It's a common feature not sure why it's still missing here. Please consider this feature to add ASAP in your future release of Wikipedia. Eagerly waiting for this. Seriously hard to save in google drive or in files. Thanks.

by Cxrmcg

I’ve always been a huge supporter of what this app stands for - the endless amount of information that anybody can access in order to become better informed! When I found out all of this was translated into an app, I was joyous (as weird as that sounds lol). Now when I’m traveling, or eating, or seriously whenever I have free time, I just get on Wikipedia and start reading. It’s very easy to use (keep in mind that I am a reader, not an editor so I do not have an editor’s experience with Wikipedia). The interface is quite lovely, giving customization options in order to fit individual reading preferences. It really is a privilege to live in a society where information can be so accessible, especially thanks to this app who preaches the ethics of information being free and in anybody’s disposal. My immigrant mother who is still learning English appreciates the Spanish accessibility as well! It’s just an amazing app, and I would 100% recommend it to anybody. The world is at our fingertips, why not?

by Wayne Knox

Confession: I’m one of those guys who always has at least 10 this app tabs open on my web-browser. The kind of guy who pulls up the sight to look up one thing, but who then goes down an endless rabbit-hole of connected links until 2 hours later I’m still reading and now have 27 extra tabs open of “thinks I want to know more about next.”

So you can imagine how difficult it has been resisting my addiction while traveling in regions where my data is tightly limited.

And then suddenly: this app app to the rescue!

Seriously, the ability to download articles for later reading while on WiFi, and then pull them up easily wherever I am, regardless of connectivity— that has been a huge help to me. And not only just to help me sate my thirst for knowledge. If I’m going to be traveling through several cities in a short period of time, it’s been super helpful to have articles about those cities and a handful of related articles saved, so that I can browse them during the train/plane ride — without burning through my data!

Thank you this app.

by Andrew1243

Wikipedia provides information for almost every topic or idea in the world. The this app as we all know it. I do feel bad not being able to donate, but you should add a feature allowing even those that don’t pay to contribute. Rather than adding ads, (something I wouldn’t mind) perhaps you can make it the choice of the reader to set themselves a fixed amount of ads to view in compensation for funds sent to the Wikimedia organization. I would happily watch a reasonable amount of ads on both Wikipedia and site with ad banners to fun an excellent source of information. Although schools say otherwise, this app is very accurate, and excellent for basic preliminary research.

by KaylieeeBird

Hear me out (and then correct me if this already exists)… I know you can bookmark pages and save them to read later, but a bookmark or a way to save your spot in an article. I have been getting waaay into reading about the history of different countries and there are some loooong articles, it takes me days to read each page. I am constantly trying to find where I left off the last time I was reading and it honestly drives me bonkers. Is this a thing? Is it possible? I use Wikipedia every day and I find this issue incredibly frustrating. Other than that, I’m glad I finally moved over from safari. Wikipedia is better in many ways. Thank for listening to me rant.

by Brialien

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 this app app for if you’re just generally trying to save data that month.

this app 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 this app from my Home Screen would be nice. Thanks!

by Trigeminy6

Used for years and the information I receive is very useful and accurate. It is where other servers have learned to direct me. I use it daily now and gradually got here since 1996. The critiques are already accomplished by many others over the decades and I mostly agree. Except I have noticed that too many non critical thinkers do not have much experience, but discount the encyclopedia outright as “teachers” not recommending the site to “students”.
Since I have been given gifts of critical thinking from my parents and siblings and experience, and reviewing data, it is almost always a direction I would take that if someone said not to do XYZ .. and especially, in this case, not to read or use such, it is precisely where I would go to start a search.
Happily I am.
bmthomp

by SnaiDog

Wikipedia is really good! Wikipedia is really good like source of information if you know what you need/want or at least about what you need/want to know. It’s not app where you can go to home page and see interesting article. You need to search article which you need so you need to know its name.
It is not a news app, yes it has a news section, but there are not much news and it is very difficult to find news on a particular topic in which you are interested, for example, there you can filter news by country but results will be really bad. It is not news app, but it’s good source of information.
Wikipedia also like the website supports many languages. It’s an international app. Full list of supported languages you can find in Wikipedia description.
But some people say that this app is not accurate source of information. Partially I agree with this statement because anyone can edit or create an article in this app, so for scientists this source is not good.
Also in different languages Wikipedia has different articles with a little bit different information.

OK, let’s summarize, Wikipedia is the best in its class of apps where you can find information about different topics.

In my opinion this app app is very good.
I like it!

by Johntechwriter

As a technical writer I’m constantly researching aspects of the technology products I document. There are informational sites available for specialized subjects, and I know which are the most reliable. But for general interest or biographical topics, I usually fall back on this app.

Considering its content is the product of thousands of volunteer authors, this app's high standard of article construction, consistent writing style (not too academic, but rather from the “plain English” school), and nearly flawless grammar and exposition — along with its unmatched range of subjects — has made this app my go-to reference.

I prefer Wikipedia over the website version because it enables me to fine-tune the formatting of articles, including text size and background tint, and it enables me to archive articles for future reference.

Along with its well-crafted articles, this app's comprehensive bibliographies, complete with active links, add credibility to the articles and make deeper digging about the subject that much easier.

That it is essentially free to all (though I am happy to be a donor and hope others will donate, too), and that its content is accessible in many languages, makes this app one of the web's outstanding resources. Everyone involved with this app should take great pride in what they have given us.

by Joshwright224

I had heard this app was a very liberal “facts and information” site, but I didn’t believe it until I looked up Donald Trumps Wiki bio. Statements like: “His campaign received extensive free media coverage; many of his public statements were controversial or false.” , and “His election and policies sparked numerous protests”. I know there may have been a few protests after his election, but it just struck me how negative most of the information about Donald Trump was. I thought that was interesting, until I looked at the list of revisions that had been made, and the statements that had been part of Donald Trumps biography that had been deleted or replaced. Just stupid stuff. Not factual at all. Like a kid filled with hate was allowed to be the editor. Nothing but an attempt at defamation of character. I expected more from this app as a professional, public information site. Very disappointed.

by GimpyGuff

For the most part I have looked to this app first when I want or need more information. However, the obvious prejudice shown in the disinformation about mercury and it’s use in dentistry is abhorrent and wrong. I am currently fighting mercury poisoning from dental amalgam fillings and it is horrendous. Apparently the ADA, the professional organization for the benefit and protection of dentists and their misconduct has influenced the writers.

In the discussion of the Gerson Therapy there were very blatant lies and misrepresentations. This Cancer Therapy is getting worldwide attention and being done in hospitals in other countries. this app stands with the corporate interests that prohibit curing cancer in this country because they make more money treating it and misinforming people about it. It’s shocking and disgraceful that you have sold your soul and compromised your integrity.

by JLtrip

Removed Wikipedia from my phone after a few weeks because it was unnecessary and cumbersome. Con: extracts you from safari browsing and into Wikipedia while surfing. When you’ve finished reading about the thing you went to look up, you can’t easily backtrack to the original page in safari without having to press an awkwardly placed button at the top left of the screen to exit Wikipedia . Con: automatically hides “quick facts” in an article that are usually summarized at the top of a page; so it’s much slower if you simply want to know facts like a person’s spouse, population of a city, etc. Pro: random article feature is easier to use than in safari.

by Sorry4ever

I love this app. Period. Why? Because it is a tremendous, humongous, reference which provides a vast amount of information and knowledge. It's like having an encyclopedia in your pocket. Wikipedia itself is easy to use, free, and there are many uses for it. It's my constant companion, in addition to the World Wide Web. My thinking is, and I could be wrong, instead of having to ask for donations, why not just have a small charge to purchase Wikipedia ? It's possible that, because this app is an organization, they aren't allowed to charge for Wikipedia . In that case, I suppose that it's best to ask for a donation. In any case, it's not mandatory, but it is nice to be able to donate. I am hoping that this app will be around forever. Thank you, this app and this app developers.

by Lukalot

It’s not really a question of wether this app is good, becuase we all know its the absolute best and all inclusive online encyclopedia, in fact, compared to any encyclopedia, this app is absolutely king,

What about Wikipedia though? Five stars! It fulfills its job of being, essentially, a web browser designed specifically for this app viewing perfectly. Everything is displayed in a nice, flowing way even on small screened mobile phones. There are four excellent color themes to switch between varying from the classic white theme to pure black. Can’t recommend Wikipedia more, it’s worlds better than using an average browser to view this app on mobile.

by Juno Mc Queen

In addition to being a magnificent way to read this app articles and learn, this is just a really well made app, the settings are easy to navigate and understand, the controls are intuitive, it offers features that most apps should have as standard, e.g. different color themes like white, sepia, dark, and even black, in-app text size settings so you don't have to change everything on your system, easy account setup. I wish more apps were like this, I'd pay money for this if I could, but instead I'll just make a donation to this app. Five stars, keep it up.