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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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Jonathan Badeen said 8:17PM on 5-18-2008
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.
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Jonathan Badeen said 8:18PM on 5-18-2008
sorry I mean March 21st
Jeremy said 10:34PM on 5-18-2008
I said the same thing.
Regardless of how new it is,
it's still pretty great.
Loads a little slowly over EDGE, though...
JKT said 9:47PM on 5-18-2008
"a wondrous era of unlimited access to questionable information of possibly-dubious origin"
LOL!! Rarely has Wikipedia been described so succinctly.
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SpinThis! said 10:46PM on 5-18-2008
... or so incorrectly. I wish TUAW would keep their biases out of articles like this. Injecting opinion—even if it was meant with a shade of sarcasm—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...
med007 said 11:05PM on 5-18-2008
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.
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Unregistered said 12:38AM on 5-19-2008
Is there an iPhone-optimized TUAW?
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Jeff said 6:47AM on 5-19-2008
Actually, I don't believe there is an iPhone optimized TUAW.
One would think there would be.....
Jonathan Badeen said 1:14AM on 5-19-2008
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
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Slip said 7:41AM on 5-19-2008
Very nice, I'm always a sucker for Wikipedia *roll eyes*
Slip
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Luigi193 said 11:35AM on 5-19-2008
For most things you need to look up, its the easiest to go to Wikipedia...
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