Wikipedia has been answering our questions, big and small, since its introduction in 2001, and its seamless app offers more encyclopedic compatibility and convenience than ever before.
What we love: How the app combines its seemingly infinite articles with mobile capabilities to create an interactive Wikipedia experience. Use the Places tab and location feature to discover landmarks near you, or set up a handy Today widget to continue reading where you left off, open a featured article or see the top-read stories. Like to surf for info after-hours? The night-reading feature makes it possible to search Wikipedia without disrupting your circadian rhythm.
Quick tip: Find your place in history with the On This Day feature. The app lays out events (and their associated articles) in a timeline that contextualises history as it was unfolding around the world.
Meet the creator: The Wikimedia Foundation is the international non-profit organisation that supports Wikipedia and related projects, with the mission to make trustworthy, reliable information accessible to all. Wikipedia’s Project Rewrite initiative calls attention to gender bias across the information landscape and is working to help close these gaps on Wikipedia and beyond.