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05/19/2026 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/19/2026 04:10
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Add to your knowledge every day to earn a prize and bragging rights with a new Reading Challenge, featuring Baby Globe, Wikipedia's 25th birthday mascot.
Engage your curiosity and deepen your knowledge with the Wikipedia app's 25-day Reading Challenge. Wikipedia is kicking off this app initiative to celebrate its 25th birthday, a year-long event paying tribute to a quarter century of the online free encyclopedia. All that you need to do to participate is open up the Wikipedia app and read at least one article a day for 25 consecutive days while the Reading Challenge is underway. You have until 18 June to get started.
How does the Reading Challenge work?
The Reading Challenge is the perfect way to enhance what you know, explore new topics, or study up for your pub quiz team, all while keeping a tab on your progress with a widget of Baby Globe, the 25th birthday mascot. Jumpstart your streak by reading at least one article each day for 25 consecutive days. Missing a day or two at the beginning is okay, as long as you restart your streak and keep it going for 25 days. If you succeed, you will be rewarded… with a bigger brain, bragging rights, and a discount at the Wikipedia store.
What is the Wikipedia app?
The Wikipedia app is a fun and fast way to learn: be it the backstory of a famous building in your city, the lore behind your celebrity crush, if that historical event happened the way you learned about it in school, the name of every single dog breed and more.
It uses local data in order to personalize your experience, while maintaining your privacy. Take advantage of the Wikipedia app's key capabilities that allow you, for example, to refer back to your reading history or use the Places feature to locate articles near you, especially when you are traveling. The Wikipedia app also helps you be more intentional about how you choose to spend your time online and on your phone.
Both the Wikipedia apps for iOS and Android are available in over 300 languages, and offer a more personalized Wikipedia experience than the web. They are also designed to load Wikipedia articles quickly without using a lot of extra data. Plus, you will never see any ads.
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What can you do with the app's features?
1. Love to travel and explore?
Use the Places feature to uncover nearby landmarks, cultural sites, and points of interest.
2. Have a long reading list?
Create lists of all the articles that you want to read, so you can get to them… eventually.
3. Like getting off the grid?
Save articles for reading whenever you go offline or you are in a service dead zone.
4. Want to track your learning?
Keep up with your stats, measure your progress, and see what you know each day.
5. Into games?
Play Which Came First?, a fun, daily trivia-style recess for your brain.
6. Eager to review what you learned?
Relive and revisit memorable articles with the Year in Review.
How does Wikipedia work?
First founded on January 15, 2001, Wikipedia has now become the backbone of knowledge on the internet, informing everything from day-to-day life and AI chatbots to journalism and trivia wins. Nearly 250,000 volunteers write, edit, and fact- check its 65 million articles across 300+ languages every month, all guided by standards on neutrality and reliability.
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