Wikipedia has launched their official app for the Windows 8 platform. It works on both Windows 8 and Windows RT editions.

Wikipedia spoke about the app:

While Internet Explorer 10 works wonderfully with Wikipedia as a regular web site, we wanted to provide a nicely integrated Wikipedia experience for Windows 8/RT users as well, and are proud to announce that our official Wikipedia app is available for free download in the Windows Store.

I played around with it… The column layout is optimized for Tablet reading but is not very fun on a large display device.