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It is possible to access and edit [[Wikipedia]] on multiple types of devices, such as [[desktop computers]], [[tablet computer|tablet]]s and [[smartphone]]s, through several different methods, including [[#Older phones|options for older devices]], [[#Official mobile apps|modern apps for various platforms]] and [[#Offline access|options to view content while offline]]. This is intended for those who want to read and [[Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices|edit on the go]]. Approximately 65% of access to English Wikipedia is by mobile devices.<!--- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1a-UBqsYtJl6gpauJyanx0nyxuPqRvhzJRN817XpkuS8/htmlview# --->
 
The [[#Official mobile version|official mobile version]] of English Wikipedia is located at '''{{URL|https://en.m.wikipedia.org}}''', with the [[#RegularDesktop (desktop) siteaccess|official desktop version]] of English Wikipedia located at '''{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org}}'''. A toggle switch between mobile and desktop view is available at the bottom of every page.
 
 
Official applications can be found at:
[[File:Download on iTunesthe App Store RGB blk.svg|70px120px|link=https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8|alt=Download Wikipedia on the App Store (iOS)]]
[[File:Google Play Store badge EN.svg|70px120px|link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia|alt=Get Wikipedia on Google Play (Android)]]
[[File:"Get it on F-droid" Badge.png|70px120px|link=https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.wikipedia/|alt=Get Wikipedia on F-Droid (Android)]]
 
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*<small>Mobile version of '''{{Plain link|url=https://{{CONTENTLANG}}.m.{{SITENAME}}.org/wiki/{{urlencode:{{{1|{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}}|WIKI}}|name={{{1|{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}}}}'''</small>
*<small>Desktop version of '''{{Plain link|url=https://{{CONTENTLANG}}.{{SITENAME}}.org/wiki/{{urlencode:{{{1|{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}}|WIKI}}|name={{{1|{{FULLPAGENAME}}}}}}}'''</small>}}
 
== Official mobile version ==
[[File:Wikipedia on Mobile screenshot 2019Wikipedia_on_Mobile_screenshot_(2024).png|thumb|Mobile Wikipedia on ChromeFirefox for Android]]
The mobile version of Wikipedia is located at '''https://en.m.wikipedia.org'''.
 
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* Supported: [[iOS]], [[Android (operating system)|Android]], [[Opera Mini]].
;Tablets
Tablets are served a [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/17/wikimedia-sites-get-a-new-look-on-tablets/ slightly modified version] of the mobile site, which makes use of the larger screen size to, e.g., show a table of contentcontents and display all article sections open by default.
 
=== Interface options ===
{{See|Wikipedia:Editing on mobile devices|mw:Reading/Web/Advanced mobile contributions}}
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{{main|mw:Wikimedia Apps/Android FAQ|l1=Wikimedia:Android Wikipedia app FAQ}}
{{Redirect|WP:ANDROID|the Android WikiProject|Wikipedia:WikiProject Android}}
:The [[Android (operating system)|Android]] app allows editing articles directly from the app. It has limited capability to show categories and talk pages. It is also available on [[F-Droid]]. An '''[[Commons:Commons:Mobile app|Android app]]''' for [[Wikimedia Commons]] is also [https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons community maintained]. There is an Android app for [[Wiktionary]], although it is no longer supported and has not been updated since August 2013.▼
The [[Android (operating system)|Android]] app allows editing articles directly from the app. It has limited capability to show categories and talk pages. It is also available on [[F-Droid]].
 
* [[File:Google Play Store badge EN.svg|x38px|link=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia|alt=Get Wikipedia on Google Play (Android)]]
* [[File:"Get it on F-droid" Badge.png|x38px|link=https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.wikipedia/|alt=Get Wikipedia on F-Droid (Android)]]
 
▲:The [[Android (operating system)|Android]] app allows editing articles directly from the app. It has limited capability to show categories and talk pages. It is also available on [[F-Droid]]. An '''[[Commons:Commons:Mobile app|Android app]]''' for [[Wikimedia Commons]]''' is also [https://github.com/commons-app/apps-android-commons community maintained] on [[GitHub]]. There is an '''Android app for [[Wiktionary]]''', although it is no longer supported and has not been updated since August 2013.
 
=== iOS ===
{{shortcut|WP:IPHONE}}
{{main|mw:Wikimedia Apps/iOS FAQ|l1=Wikimedia:iOS Wikipedia app FAQ}}
: The [[iOS]] app also provides a read and write version of Wikipedia, similar to the {{self-reference link|Help:Mobile access|mobile web version}}. It allows users to share an article via Facebook and other social websites. It also allows users to find [[geotagging|geotagged]] articles near their current ___location. It does not allow users to see categories or talk pages, nor to see the normal desktop version.
* [[File:Download on iTunesthe App Store RGB blk.svg|x40px|link=https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipedia/id324715238?mt=8|alt=Download on the App Store (iOS)]]
 
=== KaiOS ===
: The official [[mediawikiwiki:Wikipedia for KaiOS|Wikipedia for KaiOS]] app provides a read-only version of Wikipedia. [[KaiOS]] is a web-based mobile operating system for modern smart feature phones. It is a successor of the discontinued Firefox OS and popular in many regions.
* [https://www.kaiostech.com/store/apps/?bundle_id=kaios.app.wikipedia Get it on KaiStore]
 
== Third -party applications ==
{{Further|List of Wikipedia mobile applications}}
 
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| [https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipanion/id288349436?mt=8 Wikipanion]
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|[https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipanion-plus/id290613987?mt=8 Wikipanion Plus]
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|[https://apps.apple.com/app/minipedia-offline-wiki-wikipedia-reader/id473512078?mt=8 Minipedia – Offline Wiki]
| {{sort|$0.00|{{free|Free}}}}
| {{No}}
| Contains the 100,000 most read articles; multilanguage support: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish
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|[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/miniwiki/id1448143759 MiniWiki]
| {{sort|$0.00|{{free|Free}}}}
|{{No}}
| Allows browsing Wikipedia on the [[Apple Watch]]
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===<span lang="ar" dir="rtl">Android</span> apps ===
 
{| class="wikitable sortable"
* [https://play.google.com/store/search?q=wikipedia&c=apps&so=1 See all "Wikipedia" apps in the Google Play store]
|-
** [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nebulium.wiki EveryWiki for Android]▼
! Name
** [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Kiwix] Offline viewer▼
! Open source
! Notes
 
|-
| [https://github.com/nsh07/WikiReader WikiReader]
| {{Yes}}
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|-
▲**| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nebulium.wiki EveryWiki for Android]
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| Seems unavailable
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▲**| [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Kiwix] Offline viewer]
| {{Yes}}
| See details in offline section
|}
 
==Tags==
{{shortcut|WP:MOBILETAGS|WP:MOBILEEDITTAGS}}
{{Further|Special:Tags}}
{{See also|Wikipedia:Mobile communication bugs}}
 
The Wikimedia software adds [[Wikipedia:Tags|tags]] to certain edits in the history, when the edit is performed on a mobile device or using one of the mobile apps. Here are some of them (tags aimed at Talk page edits not included):
 
* advanced mobile edit – edit made by user with advanced mode
* android app edit – edits made from mobile app for android
* app-ai-assist – edits from the mobile apps that were machine assisted
* app-description-add – short descriptions added from the mobile apps
* app-description-change – short descriptions modified from the mobile apps
* app-full-source – edit made from article full source editor in the mobile apps
* app-image-add-infobox – image added to the infobox from the mobile apps
* app-image-add-top – image added to the top of the article from the mobile apps
* app-image-caption-add – image captions added from the mobile apps
* app-image-tag-add – image tags added from the mobile apps
* app-rollback – rollback actions made from the mobile apps
* app-section-source – edit made from article section source editor in the mobile apps
* app-select-source – edit made from selecting an article word in the mobile apps
* app-suggestededit – edits made with the suggested edits feature in the mobile apps
* app-undo – undo actions made from the mobile apps
* ios app edit - edits made from mobile app for ios
* mobile app edit – edits made from mobile apps
* mobile edit – for edits made from a mobile device
* mobile web edit – edit made from mobile website
 
==Desktop access<span class="anchor" id="Desktop version access "></span>==
The desktop version of English Wikipedia is located at '''{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org}}'''
 
If a browser is installed for general use, it can be used to access the general Wikipedia site, also for editing, depending on limitations of the browser. A toggle switch between mobile and desktop view is available at the bottom of every page. One may want to adapt the [[Help:User style|userUser stylestyles]] and [[Help:Preferences|preferences]] can be adapted to customize and optimize themuser interfaces for the mobile devicedevices. For example, [[Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups|navigation popups]] may or may not be convenient on the mobile devicedevices.
 
===Metro-style===
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== Media ==
Media can be controlled with the keyboard. {{Keypress|F}} toggles fullscreen, {{Keypress|m}} toggles mute and both {{Keypress|k}} and space{{Keypress|Space}} toggle between playing and pausing the media.
 
The following mobile browsers can play video and audio files on Wikipedia (browsers not listed here are not supported at all):<ref>[[mw:Extension:TimedMediaHandler/ogv.js]]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://caniuse.com/?search=webm|title="webm" &#124; Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc|website=caniuse.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://caniuse.com/?search=ogg|title="ogg" &#124; Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc|website=caniuse.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://knowledge.kaltura.com/help/kaltura-player-supported-browsers-devices|title=Kaltura Player Supported Browsers / Devices &#124; Kaltura Knowledge Center|website=knowledge.kaltura.com}}</ref> Browsers not listed here are not supported at all.
{|class=wikitable
!Browser
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!Video / WebM
|-
| [[File:Safari rounded-icon-1024.svgpng|24px]] Safari 6.1-11
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
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| [[File:Safari rounded-icon-1024.svgpng|24px]] Safari 12+-17.3
|{{yes}}
|{{partial}}<ref group="media-notes" name="safari">Video playback is only supported with Javascript decoding, which can be a bit slow. Unfortunately Apple doesdid not support native hardware based decoding of VP8 and/or VP9, the video codecs which we[[MediaWiki]] usesoftware uses and supportsupports.</ref>▼
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| [[File:Safari-icon-1024.png|24px]] Safari 17.4+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
▲|{{partial}}<ref group="media-notes" name="safari">Video playback is only supported with Javascript decoding, which can be a bit slow. Unfortunately Apple does not support native hardware based decoding of VP8 and/or VP9, the video codecs which we use and support.</ref>
|-
|[[File:Internet Explorer 10+11 logo.svg|24px]] IE 9-11 (Windows 7/8/8.1/10)
|{{yes}}
|{{partial|Installable}}
|[https://tools.google.com/dlpage/webmmf/ installable]
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| [[File:Internet Explorer 10+11 logo.svg|24px]] IE 10/11 (Windows RT)
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| [[File:Samsung Internet logo.svg|24px]] Android browser 4.4
|{{yes}}
|{{no}}
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| [[File:Samsung Internet logo.svg|24px]] Android browser 5.6+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
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| [[File:Samsung Internet logo.svg|24px]] Samsung Internet 5+
|{{yes}}
|{{yes}}
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=== Audio ===
A computer-generated audio ([[speech synthesis]]) version of all Wikipedia articles is provided by the Pediaphon service. It is usable on- and off-line with common [[MP3]] players, [[Personal digital assistant|PDA]]s, cell phones ([[Wireless Application Protocol|WAP]]) and with every phone via voice call. Pediaphon can be used as a [[___location-based service]].
* '''[http://www.pediaphon.org/~bischoff/radiopedia/index_en.html Pediaphon]'''
 
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==Offline access ==
{{Seesee also|meta:Offline Projects|Wikipedia:Database download}}
[[File:Kiwix foron Android scr1Tablet.png|thumb|right|Kiwix on an Android-powered tablet]]
Offline access to English Wikipedia can be done in many ways.
 
The '''[[Kiwix]]''' ([https://blog.wikimediakiwix.org/2012/04/09/download-the-text-of-the-entire-english-wikipedia/ OpenZIMofficial formatwebsite]''') uses the free [[KiwixZIM (file format)|openZIM]] softwareformat availableto inview theWikipedia [[Microsoftoffline. Store]],Apps are available on '''[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwixmobile Google Play]''', and '''[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kiwix/id997079563?mt=8 Apple's iOS App Store]''', toand viewmany Wikipedia offlineothers. AAs serieswell ofas "customizedthe apps"complete haveEnglish alsoWikipedia, beenit released,is ofpossible to download whichother content such as [[Medical Wikipedia]] and [[PhET]] simulations are the two largest.
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The [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team|Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] works on publishing sets of Wikipedia articles in print, CD, DVD, or some combination thereof. In 2008, SOS Children published a [[Wikipedia CD Selection]] for schools, which may be viewed at '''[http://schools-wikipedia.org/ schools-wikipedia.org],''' and is available for free download via '''[http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/archive/2008/10/2008-wikipedia-for-schools the charity's website].'''
;Or
Try one of the other external applications listed below which allow you to download a copy of Wikipedia's database and then view, search, and browse it offline.
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* WikiTaxi (for Windows): ([[Wikipedia:Database download#WikiTaxi (for Windows)|instructions]])
 
;Database dumps
;Raw data dump
EnglishThe Wikipedia dumps in SQL and XML: {{URL|//dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/}} and the [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22enwiki%22%20AND%20subject%3A%22data%20dumps%22%20AND%20collection%3A%22wikimediadownloads%22 Internet Archive]. The database can be downloaded [[Wikipedia:Database download|here]], but you will need to set up a [[web server]], [[PHP]], [[MySQL]] and our wiki software, [[Wikipediamw:MediaWiki|MediaWiki]], to make use of it. English Wikipedia dumps in SQL and XML: {{URL|//dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/}}, [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22enwiki%22%20AND%20subject%3A%22data%20dumps%22%20AND%20collection%3A%22wikimediadownloads%22 Internet Archive], [[m:Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia|BitTorrents]].
;Or
[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents#English_Wikipedia Download here] the data dump using a BitTorrent client.
 
==Engineering and support ==
The mobile version is based on the [[mw:Extension:MobileFrontend|MobileFrontend extension]] of the [[MediaWiki]] software, and maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation's [[mw:Reading/Web/Team|Reading Web]] team.
 
Learn more about:
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Support:
* [mailto:mobile-feedback-l@lists.wikimedia.org Email], [https://twitter.com/WikimediaMobile X (formerly Twitter)], [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l Mobile-l mailing list], [[Wikipedia:IRC|IRC]]: {{irc|wikimedia-mobile}}
* [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=MobileFrontend Report a new bug] or view the [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/1157/query/open/ list of known bugs]
 
== Sources ==
<references/>
 
== See also ==
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*[[Help:Options to hide an image]]
*[[Template:If mobile]] – template that differentiates content based on whether the viewer is using a mobile device
*[[Template:Navbox visibility]] – details about how [[WP:NAVBOX|Navboxes]] are [[Template:Navbox visibility|not shown]] on the mobile app
 
==References==
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