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Creator antimatter15 on May 13, 2010
Also, have you considered contributing to the official Wikimedia foundation's Wikipedia app?
http://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-iphone
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Mobile_iPhone
Creator antimatter15 on May 13, 2010
Is this project aimed at doing something like Wikipanion which allows you to select which articles interest you and save them offline, or like AllOfWiki/Encyclopedia which allow you to store an entire text Wikipedia dump (~5GB) on your device to access anytime. I personally like the latter because a lot of times, I want to look up things that I wouldn't have found interesting beforehand, but it would probably be hard to make free as the bandwidth costs of a five gigabyte app would be insane.
I have a little experience in making web apps, and I wouldn't mind contributing a bit of code (if that's the road you want to take).
@Stephen, that person actually initially released that app for jailbroken phones for free (and published the code too), but later joined the dark side, stopping support (leaving an outdated dump) and also being evil. I've been using his app a while, it's quite useful, but the mid-2008 dump is quite outdated. I took the last version of his code which was released publicly and made some changes to the wikipedia-dump reader to generate smaller and more consistent outputs which can be uploaded via SSH. Though it isn't totally done (i've never tested it completely, I stopped it after getting bored as I wasn't sure I wanted to run a week-long processing task for fixing redirects).
Creator Kickiphone on May 13, 2010
this sounds great.Goes against the spirit of wikipedia! I
http://apple-iphone-blog.blogspot.com/
Creator Stephen on December 9, 2009
Come on, this app would be perfect! Can you at least give us an update? I think its great what your trying to do anyway, someone has created a similar app and it creates a sort of dump of the entire encyclopedia and he is selling it for about 10 dollars or something, not good I think! Goes against the spirit of wikipedia! I think it's great what your trying to do, but give us an update.
Creator Stephen on December 9, 2009
I wonder how Dan is getting on in the dog eat dog world of the iPhone app store......
Creator Mike Schroll on November 9, 2009
Checking in to see if there have been any progress updates?
Creator Eden Jaeger on May 5, 2009
I've just started down the trail of learning iPhone development myself so I'm happy to throw a few bucks your way if it will help. Good luck!
Creator Matthias Welte on April 30, 2009
Buy yourself a beer or coffee from my 2$ :)
Creator Joseph Wain on April 30, 2009
Dan -- in making the app, please feel free to use my set of icons: http://glyphish.com/ (also on kickstarter at http://tr.im/k3n9 )
Creator Dan Phiffer on April 29, 2009
Hey Ilteris, yeah, I am a huge fan of Instapaper! Feature-wise I guess the recursive article saving thing might differentiate this the most. And the interaction is different -- no need login or browse in MobileSafari or use bookmarklets.
Creator ilteris kaplan on April 29, 2009
Hey Dan, this sounds great. Also have you checked out Instapaper?
Creator Corwin Harris on April 29, 2009
Congrats! I don't have an iPhone yet but I want this app when I get one. :)
Creator Dan Phiffer on April 29, 2009
Hooray! Thanks all, you guys rock!
Creator Charles Adler on April 28, 2009
Woo hoo. Congratulations Dan.
Creator Andy Baio on April 28, 2009
Right on, congratulations!
Creator MJ00 on April 28, 2009
Is this the first fully-funded project? Awesome! What happens to the extra $2, lol
Creator Perry Chen on April 25, 2009
man, you just got a big chunk! kudos to the big backer. you're almost there.
Creator Tevan Alexander on April 25, 2009
dan! this is good for various reasons, including: you're using the money to pay a fee that may be unjustified for free iphone apps, you're making the app open source, and you're furthering the wikipedia cause to make information accessible to everyone (and anywhere).
Creator Charles Adler on April 25, 2009
Dan! This is such a cool idea. Can't wait to see it in action, and get my grubby hands on it!