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Squeezing a Wikipedia Snapshot Onto an 8GB iPhone

Posted by timothy on from the but-you'll-miss-the-latest-edit-wars dept.

blackbearnh writes with this excerpt from O'Reilly Radar "Think about Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general survey of human knowledge we have at the moment. Now imagine squeezing it down to fit comfortably on an 8GB iPhone. Sound daunting? Well, that's just what Patrick Collison's Encyclopedia iPhone application does. App Store purchasers of Collison's open source application can browse and search the full text of Wikipedia when stuck in a plane, or trapped in the middle of nowhere (or, as defined by AT&T coverage...)"

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  1. Re:Survey of Human Knowledge? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Wikipedia, what some consider the most complete general summary of human knowledge[citation needed] we have at the moment."

    There. Fixed that for you.

    There. Fixed that for you.

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  2. Re:iPhone apps for computers by Filip22012005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That problem has recently been solved. With the recent addition of sms-sharing, you could use any iPhone remotely.

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  3. Warning: 3 majors problem with this app. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I bought this application 6 months ago and there are 3 majors problems with it:
    1) The search function is broken because you need to type the exact word (prefix)
    2) This is plain text: no pictures and no tables so most articles with "list" are useless
    3) No update mechanism so the dump used will be outdated soon.