Wikipedia

This is the official Wikipedia app, described in its own About screen as “a product of the Wikimedia Foundation”. Its code is under the Apache 2.0 licence, and the articles under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike.

Reading and saving

• Search and read Wikipedia in the languages you choose, in four themes: light, sepia, dark and black.
• A home feed with Community and For you tabs, with items such as the picture of the day and articles related to what you have read.
• Collections: save articles to named collections. The app now calls its reading lists “collections”, although store descriptions still use the old name. The FAQ explains: “You do need a connection to download articles, and to use the Explore feed. However, if you save articles to your collections, they will be available for later reading, even without an internet connection.” Settings let you download collection articles, only over Wi-Fi if you like, and prefer offline copies when they exist.
• Places, a map of articles about things near you or anywhere you look, using Wikimedia’s own map server.
• Editing, plus extras such as Wikipedia games and a yearly review of your reading.

Usage statistics

F-Droid flags the app Tracking: “Analytics can’t be disabled.” From the code of this version:

• Until February 2024 the settings had a “Send usage reports” switch. A change that month removed it, together with the check that stopped events from being sent when it was off.
• At start-up the app fetches its analytics configuration from meta.wikimedia.org. It then records events, such as screens shown, buttons tapped and some per-article actions identified by the article’s page ID, and sends them in batches to Wikimedia’s analytics servers. Each event carries a random installation ID created when the app is first used.
• Requests sent through the app’s shared network client also carry that installation ID in a header, with a user agent that names the app version, Android version and phone model. Some requests made by the article view itself bypass that client, such as form submissions, page previews and audio or video playback, so we can’t say whether they carry it.
• How much is recorded is decided by settings on Wikimedia’s servers. In the configuration we fetched on 5 October 2026, the main event streams had no sampling limit, which the code treats as recording on every device.

All of this goes to the Wikimedia Foundation, whose privacy policy covers the official apps. The F-Droid build contains no third-party analytics or crash-reporting library and no Firebase or Google Play services code, and our tracker scan found none.

What this F-Droid build leaves out

F-Droid builds the app’s “fdroid” variant, which replaces four Google-based pieces with stand-ins:

• Push notifications through Firebase. If you are logged in, the app checks for notifications itself instead.
• Google Pay for donations; the donation screens use the website instead.
• Google’s ML Kit language detection and the Play Install Referrer.

F-Droid picks up new versions only when the project tags them on GitHub, so it can fall behind: this version is from 9 September 2026, while Wikimedia’s own download server already lists builds from later in September.

About this file

• This is F-Droid’s build of version 50606, signed with F-Droid’s key. See the questions below for switching versions.
• The 82.5 MB file runs on Android 6.0 and later, on ARM and x86, 32- and 64-bit, and declares 17 permissions, including location for Places and account access for logging in. One of them, READ_PHONE_STATE, isn’t used by the app’s own code and presumably comes from one of its libraries.
• The Brazilian Portuguese translation covers almost the whole interface.
• Wikipedia, its name and its “W” logo are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation. This site isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by the Foundation.
• The screenshots come from Wikimedia Commons, with their authors and licences in the captions. Some show older labels, such as Explore and reading lists.

Flagged by F-Droid:

• TetheredNet: Uses a network service run by the developer.
• Tracking: IzzyOnDroid flags this app for tracking or reporting user activity.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017); armeabi-v7a (32-bit ARM, older and budget phones); x86 (32-bit Intel, emulators); x86_64 (64-bit Intel, emulators and Chromebooks).

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