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I was using the wikiHow Android App today and I was looking at some articles on it, and I noticed that some of them do not work very well on the app, so I decided to look and see if what I could find wrong, and where is what I found:

First, I noticed that when you go to the UN Misinformation Course from the homepage, and then tap the “Start Free Course” button, it will open the pop-up, and you can input your email and everything works, but if you decide to select the download PDF link because you don’t want to put in your email, you won’t actually be able to download a PDF file through the app. It just does nothing.Something else that I noticed here is that if you tap on the support@wikihow.pro email address at the bottom of the pop-up, instead of opening an email app with the email filled in, it will try to open a website in the browser app instead, and the browser will say that a secure connection failed.

Another thing that I noticed is that if you go to an article with a sample, and you tap on the sample, it won’t open a pop-up or allow you to see it at all. It does the same thing as the PDF download above. It just does nothing.

Also, I noticed was that the tables render wrong. If you to to an article with a wikiTable, it won’t display the table correctly. Instead, the table data is showed all the way to the left, and then there will be blank white space at the rest of the space to the right. The table also isn’t colored correctly either. Here is a screenshot on Bluestacks that I took. It was on the article How to Convert Binary to Hexadecimal :

Table on How to Convert Binary to Hexadecimal
Table on How to Convert Binary to Hexadecimal 1916×1009 55.9 KB

Despite the fact the screenshot is in tablet mode, the issue is also present on phones.

Quiz’s also reallydo not work. The quiz pages do not look good in the app.

Also, you can’t check the boxes on the Ingredients and Things You’ll Need checklists.

Another thing is that if a source is an “expert source”, then it won’t show up in the app, not even in the references section.

This was all found on the latest version of the wikiHow app on a Samsung Galaxy S22 on the latest version of Android that you can get on that device. I know that this is a long list, but I did want to let you know about it. Also, perhaps the app should be updated to support things like wikiHow relationships, because while it does kind of work, it also doesn’t completely work.

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Thanks for the thorough testing and reporting @R2_d2000 ! I’ll pass this on to the product team so they can look into everything.

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Hi R2! I noticed the table was using headers for each of the rows in the source, which can be a problem. I went ahead and streamlined the styling so it uses the wikitable class, and I went ahead and converted part of the article to HTML. Want to know if the problems with the tables are still arising or no?