Why every article in Wonder ends with its attribution

At the foot of every article in Wonder by Zaweba there is a short block of credit. It names the source site, links to the original article and to its history, which is where its authors are listed, says which edition you are reading and carries a disclaimer. It's easy to scroll past, but it is there on purpose, and it is useful.

Wonder ships no content of its own. Everything you read comes from an edition you downloaded from the Kiwix project, made from Wikipedia or one of its sister projects, Wiktionary and Wikivoyage. Those articles are written by volunteers and shared under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike licence, CC BY-SA 4.0. Credit is part of that licence.

What the credit says

The attribution at the end of each article view has four parts. The source site tells you where the text came from. The link to the original article points to the page on the live site. The link to its history leads to the list of edits, and so to the people who wrote it. The edition tells you which download you are reading, which matters because editions are snapshots made at a particular date.

Then there is the disclaimer. Wikipedia is written by many hands and can contain errors, and the disclaimer says so plainly.

The About box and a dialog on first run carry the full notice, so the terms are set out clearly before you read anything.

Why it's on every page

CC BY-SA asks anyone sharing the work to credit it. Putting the credit on every article view, rather than tucking it into a menu, means it travels with the text. If you copy a passage into a school project, the source is right there to cite.

It also keeps the line between app and content clear. Wonder is the reader: the Library, the reading view, Surprise me, rabbit holes, Five a day and the rest. The articles belong to their authors and are shared under their licence. The attribution makes that obvious every time.

Using it for homework and research

For a student, the credit block is the start of a citation. It gives the article and source site, and the edition shows when the text was captured. Offline copies are snapshots, so when a fact really matters, the link to the original article lets you compare against the current version on the live site when you're next online.

The history link is worth knowing about too. It shows how an article was written and by whom, which is a good lesson in how an encyclopedia like this comes together, and a way to judge how settled an article is.

Reading with care

Wikipedia is a wonderful place to start and a less reliable place to finish. The disclaimer is a polite reminder of that. Use the articles to learn your way around a subject and to find the sources they cite, and check important facts against those sources.

That matters most for children. Wonder's kid mode, in the View menu, switches to Simple English Wikipedia if it is downloaded, makes the text bigger and hides some adult words, and the app says clearly that it is not a guaranteed content filter. The credit and disclaimer are part of the same plain approach.

Where the editions come from

Every edition in the Library comes from Kiwix's servers and mirrors, with its size, date and article count shown before you download, and each download is checked against Kiwix's SHA-256 at the end. The attribution on each article closes that loop: you know which edition it came from and where the original lives.

Wonder by Zaweba is built to make reading Wikipedia offline a pleasure, and giving credit on every page is part of reading it properly.