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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 moreā€¦

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: 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: released

This project has been developed so far, that its authors felt confident enough to create a release.

The project repository was created on 2021-03-19.

The last known commit happened on 2024-09-25.
Please note: This information is not updated continuously. This particular listing was last updated on 2025-01-13

Features

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

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Get it on Flathub!

Install as flatpak: https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.hugolabe.Wike.flatpakref

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:

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* 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.

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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