First: a huge apology for not following through on this like I had planned. A generous way to put what happened is that I've been busy with other projects. But! I have made a commitment to make Wikipedia Offline, and I still think it's an app that should exist. I just need to make some time for it. Thanks for your continued patience and stay tuned.

I am officially an Apple Developer Program Member now.

Sorry for the long hiatus on updates, I've been traveling a lot, but now I'm back in New York and will get down to proper development on Wikipedia Offline. Today was the "money is released day," so I'm all set to get my iPhone Developer Program membership going. I'll be posting more updates here as they happen.

This is excellent, thanks for funding me! Now that we've surpassed the $99 pledge goal it's my turn to make an actual thing you can use! As I mentioned in my first update, I probably won't find proper development time for this thing for about another week or two. But I'll post updates here once I get started on things.

I should point out there's no need to keep donating at this point. But here is one place you might want to direct your generosity: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

Thanks again to everyone who pitched in!

This is a great showing so far, already past 50% funded! I'm going to have to get my ass in gear. I should lay out my plan for development here so everyone has a sense for what's to come.

I'm intending to build this on top of a framework called PhoneGap (phonegap.com). It allows you to publish regular Javascript-driven web pages as fully-fledged iPhone apps. Since Wikipedia is already primarily composed of web content, I think this is a good technology choice. Plus I can minimize the need for writing native Objective-C code, which I'm not as familiar with.

I probably won't be able to dig into development for another week or two. But I already have a lot of preexisting code that I can reuse from another project. I'll post more updates as things progress.