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Wikipedia today reported an upgraded rendition of its Android application that not only lets you rapidly check facts and details, additionally prescribes you content to read on the go. You can download the new version now from Google Play.
Above all else, the Wikipedia Mobile Apps group has redesigned the home screen of the application. Up front and center is the new Explore feed — which was added to Wikipedia for iOS in March — that shows prescribed pictures, news content, articles based on what you want to read, and so on.
On the off chance that today's content doesn't intrigue you, simply scroll further down in the feed. You will see included content from earlier days that can still be fascinating — recall that Wikipedia isn't just about news. If you don’t want to see a specific card, simply swipe it away to hide it.
1. In the news: Current global news stories, with links to the Wikipedia articles relevant to each story (limited only to English Wikipedia for now).
2. Trending articles: The top five most read articles of the day.
3. Highlighted picture: A bold image chose each day by the Wikipedia editor group.
4. Highlighted article: An included article on Wikipedia picked every day by editors (constrained just to English Wikipedia for the time being).
5. Today on Wikipedia: A course to the Main Page of the Wikipedia of your favored dialect.
6. Randomizer: An arbitrary Wikipedia article.
7. A more noticeable Search bar at the highest point of the feed, with incorporated voice, seek.
The last point is worth underlining on the grounds that it can remain all alone, feed or no feed. While the vast majority still don't trouble with voice search, the quality and exactness are definitely enhancing, making it significant for some when they're on the go.
Wikipedia has likewise worked in sharing: For every feature in the feed, you can share the article being referred to utilizing your most social media apps or recovery the article on an individual reading list. Best of all, in the event that you spare it, you can read the content even when you are offline.
The Explore feed is a monstrous venture from Wikipedia. The company has built the back-end service that provides the content, furthermore, plans to make it available to anyone else interested in utilizing it. The Android application is only the first use case.
The information provided by the Explore feed service is structured in a simple format that can be used by other apps and web applications. A simple web request can retrieve all the content shown in the feed.
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