If you have an iPhone 3G, or an iPhone/iPod Touch running iPhone OS 2.0, you want http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone
This page is only useful if you have a jailbroken iPhone OS 1.0 phone.
Store the sum of human knowledge on your iPhone/iPod Touch -- an offline copy of Wikipedia that requires no 'net access.
- Intro: http://collison.ie/wikipedia-iphone
- Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/wikipedia-iphone/topics
What
An offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone or iPod Touch. I wanted to write an iPhone app over Christmas, and so hacked this together during the break.
Why
It's the warm fuzzy feeling of having the sum of all human knowledge in your pocket. It's the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy realised. EDGE is slow; search is slow; you're abroad, in a plane, a tunnel, or on top of a mountain. You have an iPod Touch.
Size
It'll consume about a quarter of your iPhone's storage—the app, indexes and dumps are almost exactly 2GB together.
Completenes
This still has a lot of rough edges. Some articles can't be opened, and it's not too hard to crash the app.
Other
There's also a mongrel-based ruby server for offline browsing on a PC (was used for debug during development). See sh/server in the source distribution. No screenshots yet.
Other peeps
- "its sooooo awesome, my life is perfect now" - rebelxtnut.
- "IT WORKS!!!!! Search function, internal links to other articles, even search suggestions! This is awesome!" - ryancx.
- "Now this is serious shit!!! I installed it and it is working great. This is the most useful app to have besides a few dict apps." - a4pat.
