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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: 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

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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:

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.

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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