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Prevent Automatic Page Refresh: Enhancing Offline Reading Experience
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Hi I’m a regular user of Wikipedia app.

However I’ve got a suggestion please, it was mentioned about a year ago but no changes since.

Basically when I load a page with images and leave it on the app to read at a later date.
I don’t close the app.

A short while when I have no signal, the app refreshes and suddenly the page is gone.

Is it possible if you can stop it refreshing? I would like to read a previously loaded Wikipedia article without using mobile signal.

I load the page when I’ve got signal. Leave the app open. Then 20 minutes later when I go to an area with no mobile signal; the page refreshes automatically and nothing loads. Because I’ve got no signal at that point.
Thanks,

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JTannerWMF subscribed.

Ask the user to save the article so they can read it offline, sometimes its the system refreshing it.

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