Wike

Search and read Wikipedia articles Source

Description

Wike is a Wikipedia reader for the GNOME Desktop. Provides access to all the content of this online encyclopedia in a native application, with a simpler and distraction-free view of articles.

It supports more than 300 languages and integrates with desktop searches, providing suggestions that make it easier to find any content. Other features are: bookmarks with multiple lists, article table of contents, history, text searches and much more…

Source

Notice

GTK4/libadwaita since release 2.0.0, fully adaptive since 2.0.1.

For the previous GTK3/libhandy releases standard min-width was a bit too wide, scale-to-fit wike on made it usable.

Project links:

Links with more information:

https://apps.gnome.org/app/com.github.hugolabe.Wike/

Links to (pages with) screenshots:

Screenshots

Rating

Mobile Fit: 5

Perfect - this app fits your phone screen just fine out of the box and works nicely with touch input!

Project status: mature

This project has been in development for a long time and is usually well beyond its 1.0 release. It should work fine.

Features

✔ Every feature of this app can be accessed via touch screen, no mouse or keyboard needed.

✔ This app is (according to its appstream metadata or description) intended to be compatible with mobile devices.

Packaging

Is this app packaged for my distribution?

green: current and packaged,
red: packaged, but not current, ratings and other details may not apply.

Get it on Flathub!

Build and install your own flatpak: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hugolabe/Wike/master/build-aux/flatpak/com.github.hugolabe.Wike.json

Get it on Snapcraft!

Please note that Snap only supports these distributions.

If you're lucky*, you can install this app by just hitting this button:

Install

* You need to have an appstream:// handler, e.g., GNOME Software or KDE Discover, installed and the app needs to be available in a configured software repository, more details.

Find similar apps

By Service: Wikipedia

By Category: education

By FreeDesktop-(Additional-)Category: GTK Education Network

Licensing and technical details

License: GPL-3.0-or-later Metadata: CC0-1.0

Frameworks: GTK4 libadwaita

Programming languages: Python

Build system: meson

AppStream Metadata URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hugolabe/Wike/master/data/com.github.hugolabe.Wike.metainfo.xml.in