Wikiwand: Faster Wikipedia Reader Reviews

Randy428

Randal428

Why do I love Wikiwand? The answer is simple. It allows me to further my education even though I'm 60 years old I still have the inquisitive mind that I remember having as a child who had just learned the power of the written word. I adopted my philosophy of life. With the power of our beautiful mind God made us His children and showered us with the wonders of this beautiful world. I have lived with a simple philosophy that if I live a day without learning something new, then I've just wasted the whole day. It has made me a rich man and I'm not talking about money. I'm rich with the love of my God and His love of us! Sure I would like to have the money to be able to live a life of comfort and travel the world to see all of the wonders that I've only been able to read about. But I've been blessed by God with a brain that has shown me that money isn't what's important in life. People are what's important and family is all the riches I need. I'm rich with love because I've been blessed with two children and their children. With a heart full of love and gratefulness I thank all the people who were involved with the creation of Wikipedia. Thanks to all of you! ??

Great Application

Sptr4419

This is a wonderful app. I like the suggestions as I type the subject to search.

Shockingly good, for a third-party offering

fish2000

Wikipedia may be one of the most truly unique amalgam of knowledge – a massive, ubiquitous hypertext oracle, miraculously organized against all entropic odds, shepherded by a team of voluneers into a freely available resource, across the globe, in most of its languages. Truly, the Wikipedia project is definitively an amazing feat of collaborative authorship and software engineering, as anyone availing themselves of its resources will conclude if they at all stop and think about it. The advent of Wikipedia is a watershed moment in the history of mankind, on par with inventions like fire, movable type, or the internal combustion engine. But like any great invention, Wikipedia is as imperfect and as quirky as we. Specifically, the UX of the Wikimedia application suite (upon which Wikipedia is built) is an idiosyncratic wan afterthought. Generally speaking, the interface engineering lacks consistency – where, say, Apple or Google have quantitative HIG standards, Wikipedia relies on the same consensus-based editorial process their staff uses to drive the generation of the Wiki content base. The practical upshot, historically, is that Wikipedia’s user experience has been clunky and rough around the edges – in much the same way the the iPhone’s iOS has not – and so, of course, the official Wikipedia iPhone app suffered from the exact same quirkiness (as the Wikipedia consensus-based process was formulated initially to normalize around any domain-specific expertise – Wikipedians are, like, really hung up on emphasizing their whole institutional “neutral point-of-view” thing, for some reason – and so you can see that in this case, when applied to the engineering of the mobile app UI, the Apple HIG acts as another non-neutral “point of view” to be countered during the Wikipedian consensus. I would personally venture that the iOS quirks of Wikipedian UX engineering, while no more or less quantifiably quirky than their web-app counterparts, are particularly problematic in this context. This is because the iOS UI’s “point of view” is, arguably, more than just pixel guides and gutter constraint rules – the Apple HIG is part and parcel of a strongly opinionated monolithic subcultural institution, built on a 40-year-old neo-Modern praximal foundation.* And so: really, all of that is just, like, a preamble to me saying that this 3rd-party Wikipedia app is actually suprisingly really good. It has none of that systemic process-artifactual Wikipedian UX quirkiness, because someone else engineered and designed it (or so I blindly surmise, I have no idea actually), and is also somehow free of charge. The only problem I have with this app at all whatsoever is the name – WikiWand, really? Am I somehow not to think it’s some kind of Gob Bluth “Arrested Development” reference? Come on. Otherwise it’s a five star utility – so considering the fact that I don’t like the name, I would rate it as 4.9999 stars (which for all intents and purposes is five stars).

No bookmarks

PepsP

Nice app, but needs to have bookmarking, history and option to change font size and weight.

No updates

jwoodyw

App is in serious need of an update. I never know when a page will open. Most of the time it's the intro and nothing else loads. I am done with this app.

perfect

vvende

Really good app. Thanks

The best way to wiki on iOS

Agawam Rick

Clean and intuitive. I love using this to view articles on my phone! I highly recommend it.

Application of Wikipedia

Parmida hoo

It couldn't search anything and it was just loading ??????

Good but has serious problems

Ryan "Danger" Kelly

This app is excellent in many ways. For the most part, it displays articles in an aesthetically pleasing way conducive to learning. The major drawback, however, is the too often reoccurrence of articles failing to load. This flaw happens regardless of the status of wifi or signal strength. It is for this reason that I cannot recommend this app over visiting Wikipedia on your standard web browser. Until this issue is fixed (and history has shown that the app developers are not concerned with this issue), I do not recommend downloading this app.

nice but limited

pferro

App is good at displaying articles and decent at searching, but doesn't offer any way to track history &/or favorites

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