Wikipedia is of one the most influential participant to protest against the SOPA and PIPA bills by doing an extraordinary blackout yesterday for 24 hours, which is over now. That’s certainly an engaging move from the Wikipedia team and I’m personally grateful to them for such vigorous involvement. Just in time, Wikipedia has also released their much awaited mobile application for Android. The app is free and available for download in the Android market!

Official Wikipedia App for Android is the free encyclopedia containing more than 20 million articles in 280 languages, and is the most comprehensive and widely used reference work humans have ever compiled. You’re presented with ‘Today’s featured article’ on the app’s home screen with an easy to read text layout, optimized for smartphones. It offers an impressive and useful ‘Save page’ feature, thus to let users save desired articles to read later or when offline.

Other nifty options include: the ability to Share pages, read an article in a different language, Full screen search, check history of recently viewed pages and there is a ‘Nearby’ option that searches for nearby locations on a Google Map. Moreover, there’s a Settings option to set the preferred text font size and default language for Wikipedia app from a list of various languages offered.

~ This is the initial version of app that has been installed by a very fair amount of Android users. We hope for some future updates that would make it more amazing.

Download Wikipedia Android App [Android Market]    via  [Techie Buzz]

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While surfing through the worlds most popular and renowned site ‘Wikipedia.org’, I was surprised to see that the esteemed site is linking to an illegal music download site. Though, anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles but it seems like Wikipedia doesn’t verify the content before it goes live.

Coming to the point, today when I opened the profile of Khatta Meetha (2010 film) on Wikipedia, I saw an entry named “Download Songs” under External links section.

This download songs link was linking to direct download links of Khatta Meetha tracks. The illegal music site also has other popular Songs and Albums from Bollywood.

However, I was unable to find the Download Songs entry on profile of several other movies. So it is understood that some newbie has added this entry which is illegal.

Update – The ‘Download Songs’ link is now removed from the page.

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Today, the latest edition of the Wikipedia school edition has been released by SOS Children’s Villages, a charity organization that aims to help orphans and vulnerable children worldwide. The 08/09 edition can be downloaded for free, via BitTorrent only, and comprises over 5500 hand-picked educational articles aimed at helping schools to enhance their curriculum.

It is one of the most successful "checked content" project derived from the English Wikipedia. The updated selection has the content of a 20 volume encyclopaedia – with 34,500 pictures, 20 million words and articles on more than 5500 topics.

The .torrent file is available for download on the SOS Children’s Villages website. For those who don’t want to install a BitTorrent client, the DVD can also be downloaded from any web browser with BitLet.

A final word of advice from SOS Children’s Villages: “It helps our charity if you keep µTorrent running after your download is finished.”

via  [ Torrent Freak ]

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