Yet another way to Wikipedia on your iPhone

iPhone web application developer, Comoki, has unveiled a new, iPhone-compatible Wikipedia interface. It's not alone, of course, but joins the ranks of web applications like iPodia with some nice interface improvements. It has a more reliable "Save" feature and makes some nice formatting decisions on the page, including making bulleted lists collapsible. It also makes use of a little Ajax for zooming images without reloading the page, which you may or may not prefer to the more traditional approach. I did like the search-as-you-type feature on iPodia, which is currently lacking in Comoki's version.

Of course, you may prefer to go offline with something like wikipedia-iphone (Google Code). Or perhaps make use of an older iPod for such pursuits. Welcome to a wondrous era of unlimited access to questionable information of possibly-dubious origin. Good stuff.

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Luigi193

For most things you need to look up, its the easiest to go to Wikipedia...

May 19 2008 at 11:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Slip

Very nice, I'm always a sucker for Wikipedia *roll eyes*

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May 19 2008 at 3:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan Badeen

Also, I wish I had a link to the study or the article about the study but Wikipedia is just as accurate as encyclopedia Britannica. You shouldn't trust it for that event that happened an hour ago but for established articles it's pretty good

May 19 2008 at 1:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Unregistered

Is there an iPhone-optimized TUAW?

May 19 2008 at 12:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jeff

Actually, I don't believe there is an iPhone optimized TUAW.

One would think there would be.....

May 19 2008 at 6:43 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I wish TUAW would post a tutorial for getting wikipedia.comoki.com to work with the native app "WebSearch"

Would save a bunch of time.

May 18 2008 at 11:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JKT

"a wondrous era of unlimited access to questionable information of possibly-dubious origin"

LOL!! Rarely has Wikipedia been described so succinctly.

May 18 2008 at 9:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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SpinThis!

... or so incorrectly. I wish TUAW would keep their biases out of articles like this. Injecting opinionâ€”even if it was meant with a shade of sarcasmâ€”only discredits the author (and TUAW) as a reliable source.

Wikipedia is actually a pretty reliable source for most things you would probably want to look up. And the quality is only getting better daily...

May 18 2008 at 10:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jonathan Badeen

If by new you mean a while back. It's been around since the first day I got my iPhone on May 21st and who knows how much longer before that.

May 18 2008 at 8:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jonathan Badeen

sorry I mean March 21st

May 18 2008 at 8:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jeremy

I said the same thing.
Regardless of how new it is,
it's still pretty great.
Loads a little slowly over EDGE, though...

May 18 2008 at 8:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply