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== Mobile devices ==
{{main|Wikipedia: Mobile access}}

For many phones, [[Opera Mini]] gives a much easier browsing experience for Wikipedia than the built in browser.  See: http://www.operamini.com/

==Multi-platform==
[[Wikiwand]] - Google Chrome browser extension.

[[Kiwix]] - offline reader for Wikipedia and its other [[Wikimedia]] sister projects. [https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-reader/ Available for Android, Linux, iOS, Mac OS X, Windows].

[[GoldenDict]] - multiplatform dictionary browser with native support for Wikipedia, [[Wiktionary]], the [[Wikimedia projects]], and any [[MediaWiki]]-based website. (Experimental Kiwix [[Zim (software)|zim]] support is in git master.)

Distracted Reader – Browser extension for [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/distracted-reader/ Firefox] and [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/distracted-reader/cocmhagabckkgdgipmpfhonemoamahfn Chrome] for fast search and exploration.

==macOS widget==
For users of Mac OS X 10.4 or newer, there is a [http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/reference/wikipedia.html Wikipedia Dashboard widget].

==Alternative portals==

* See also [[Wikipedia:Searching]] for alternative ways of searching Wikipedia

==Instant Messaging==
[[User:Crazycomputers/WatchlistBot|WatchlistBot]] delivers realtime notifications of edits to any [[Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol|XMPP]] client.

==References==
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