Designing for offline on Android

We’ve introduced a number of improvements to the Wikipedia Android app to better serve these app users who have restricted or low-bandwidth access to the internet.

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What’s your second screen? Film, television, and the British monarchy fill Wikipedia’s most-viewed articles of 2017

Or: "The enduring power of Anglophilia."

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Media, politics, and the most-viewed YouTube videos: 2017 as seen through the lens of Wikipedia

A good number of Wikipedia's English-language editors in the last year were drawn to news (especially politics), media, and miscellanea.

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The reading room at the Boston Public Library

What can we glean from OCLC’s experience with library staff learning Wikipedia?

An exploration of the intersection between Wikipedia and public libraries in the United States.

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First World War digitization project nets awards for Romanian Wikimedia community

A volunteer project run by six Wikimedians has been recognized for their work.

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Why Tímea Baksa writes about Korean culture on Wikipedia

Thanks to Wikipedia, Tímea Baksa has learned two new languages and met people from all around the world. We asked about what keeps her coming back to Wikipedia, day after day.

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Gabriel Thullen on bringing offline Wikipedia to West African schools

A chat with Gabriel Thullen, a Wikimedian who worked with schools in West Africa to test the Kiwix offline Wikipedia browser during the 2016–2017 school year.

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Wikipedia iOS app named an Editor’s Choice

The Wikipedia iOS app is among the newest to hold the "Editors' Choice" distinction in Apple’s App Store.

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Sesame Street Spaghetti Space Chase

From Sesame Street to Maya Angelou, this Wikipedian digs deeper

Christine Meyer, better known to Wikipedians as FigureSkatingFan, has worked on many of the English Wikipedia's articles about Sesame Street. We asked why.

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Bringing light to Czechoslovakian history: Jindřich Nosek and the Art Library Project

One man's lifelong passion finds an outlet on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

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