The Wikipedia  foundation has published its first official mobile application and is available free on the Android Market.

Wikipedia already offers an online version suitable for mobile and developers to access the contents of the contents of the largest online encyclopedia in the world. But now, one of the most visited website on the web has its own mobile software. Not surprisingly, Wikipedia, open and free encyclopedia is available in the first place on Google’s open source Android platform.

The Wikipedia application, according to Clubic, provides access to almost 20 million articles in 280 languages.

Last function, less expected, the possibility of using the GPS chip to geo-locate. The application, from this data, can be transformed into a tourist guide and view many documents and information on the site closest to the position of the user. The interface is based on Google Maps and displays all the places on a map with a dot for each place to discover both truth and through the encyclopedia.

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