Unknown tricks to make the best out of Wikipedia

Unknown tricks to make the best out of Wikipedia

As you know, Wikipedia is the best encyclopedia available online. There is not a lot of add, since most of you guys know what I am talking about. Anyway, here are a couple of tricks you might not know about which are quite easy to apply and require no extra- knowledge.

1) How to read Wikipedia without any internal link.

When you open any article within Wikipedia, you will notice a lot of hyperlinks which, just in case you want to deepen your reading a little further, will connect you to other interesting articles. If you think that all this is quite annoying, here is how to have a clean, tidy article without hyperlinks.

Let’s say you are reading the article talking of the United States of America whose link is:

Code:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States

. If you don’t like all the hyperlinks in the text, just append the following string at the end of the web address in your browser to have a neat, clear article without anything sidetracking you. The string is &printable=yes By the way, the new web address will be

Code:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States&printable=yes

2) How to read Wikipedia in your phone.

Don’t have a computer at hand but you wish to read a Wikipedia article? No problem, just take your phone out of your pocket, and go to wapedia.mobi. This interesting website is nothing else than a Wikipedia search and browser tool for mobiles.

3) How to download the whole Wikipedia Encyclopedia.

If you don’t want to part from your beloved Wikipedia and you wish to have it everywhere you go, in your laptop for example, and without any need for a Internet connection, why don’t you download it completely?

Here is the link to the most recent dump to download Wikipedia in your computer. Here is the link to the latest dump.