Today Wikipedia introduced a link-preview feature for its mobile app. The feature allows you to preview the article behind each hyperlink in Wikipedia articles. Referred to as “Wiki-links,” each link goes directly to another Wikipedia article with information associated with that keyword. The feature is almost identical to what you would find with Wikiwand, a Wikipedia reader platform. Wikiwand was the best solution to difficult reading on Wikipedia before Wikipedia jumped into the mobile scene. It will be interesting to see if the new feature for the Wikipedia app will pull users away from the Wikiwand platform. The new feature is currently only available for Android but the Wikimedia Foundation stated that it will be available for iOS soon. It is also exploring the possibility of implementing the function with mobile browsing of the online encyclopedia.
