Wikipedia
Wikipedia is an indisputable leader in putting together the most extensive online collection of open knowledge in history. With the official Wikipedia app for Android, users have 40 million articles across nearly 300 languages at their fingertips. The app owners assure, “All for free. Forever.” Easy navigation, multilingual support, customized explore feed are just some of the application infrastructure elements, enhancing user convenience.
This year Wikipedia celebrates its 20th anniversary. The resource has grown from being a dubious collaborative project to the world’s largest free online encyclopedia that advocates for open-knowledge policy. The Wikipedia app is excellent to be used as a jumping-off point when looking for, let’s say, some event of historical importance or making a large-scale inquiry.
We advocate for Wikipedia’s vision of knowledge as a service, so we decided to test its official mobile application for Android. Read on to find out about the bugs our QA engineers found.
- February 2, 2021
- Launch the app.
- Tap the “More” > “Login” button.
- Tap the “Forgot your password?” button.
- Tap the “Wikipedia” button.
- Launch the app.
- Tap the “Edits” button on the footer.
- Turn on the Internet connection.
- Update the page.
- Launch the app.
- On the “Home” page, select the order list of block news.
- Click on any block.
- Launch the app.
- Navigate to the “Search” page.
- Swipe an item in the “History” block to the left as if to delete it, but do not finish the action.
It wouldn't be exaggerating to say that Wikipedia is the most popular open-source platform. The official Android app has broad functionality and is quite popular with users. This collaborative encyclopedia mobile app does not display major stability issues, yet some navigation, Internet status, and UI/UX inaccuracies are likely to degrade the user experience.
