How to Access Wikipedia via Whatsapp

WhatsApp is a great example of what users want in a mobile app. It’s easy to use, has a very clear value proposition as an instant message platform, is loaded with features for multimedia and group communication, and for 900 million users it has become one of the most convenient ways to communicate in a cheap, fast and effective way.

There are some people however, who have decided to look beyond all this and add more functionality to WhatsApp. A group from India created a WhatsApp bot which allows its users to access certain services ordinarily accessible on the internet only and not through WhatsApp.

Through the bot users can search for content on Wikipedia, access some news articles and even engage in simple mobile quizzes. To access the bot users need to do following steps:

1. Save this number +918148911230 to contact as Wikipedia to your phone.

2. Create a Group with any Groupname and add this contact (Wikipedia) only. You are already another contact by default: so wikipedia and you (only 2 members) become the members.

3. Now you post in that group, anything textual to search in Wikipedia starting text with

wiki <SPACE> anything that you want to search

Eg: If you want something to know about "SBI" (State Bank of India)

You must type

wiki <SPACE> SBI

4. Wikipedia replies you in the group automatically.

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