Description
Fast and organized interface to Wikipedia, which can work online or offline.
Features:
- Hierarchical view of sections up to 3 levels.
- Auto saving articles including images in the cache for viewing while offline.
- Articles caching limit can range from 0.5 GB to 5 GB, adjustable through the iPhone Settings.
- Will save your battery and limited data plan, as it will bring the articles from the cache, if they were already viewed before.
- History button to view the list of articles which have been visited.
- View in Text only mode or in full view with Images mode.
- 6 Taps of views of different articles.
- Can work online or offline. While offline it will show you all the automaticly saved articles in the cache.
- Will hide Searchbar and Toolbar automatically while scrolling, will show again when clicking anywhere.
- Works in portrait and landscape modes
- Shows live list of near match words from internal DB, while typing in the Searchbar.
- Automatically saves tap view history, and when you reopen the applications, it shows the last article you have viewed.
- In page searching.
- Next and Previous links at the end of each article page to browse articles in the cache.
- In app view of external links.
- Ability to edit articles by clicking on article URL at the end of the page, then click on "View this page on regular Wikipedia" link.
- Supports Multi Languages. You can change the Wikipedia language by going to iPhone "Settings", then click on wPediaL, then choose the language you want. Supported languages are: Afrikaans, العربية, Aragonés, Azərbaycan, Башҡорт, Беларуская, भोजपुरी, Bosanski, Brezhoneg, Български, Català, Чӑвашла, Česky, Cymraeg, Dansk, Deutsch, Eesti, Ελληνικά, English, Español, Esperanto, Euskara, فارسی, Føroyskt, Français, Frysk, Gaeilge, Gaelg, Gàidhlig, Galego, ગુજરાતી, 한국어, هَوُسَ, Հայերեն, हिन्दी, Hrvatski, Igbo, Bahasa Indonesia, Interlingua, Иронау, Íslenska, Italiano, עברית, Basa Jawa, ქართული, Қазақша, Кыргызча, Kiswahili, Kreyòl ayisyen, Kurdî, Latina, Latviešu, Lëtzebuergesch, Lietuvių, Limburgs, Magyar, Македонски, Malagasy, मराठी, Bahasa Melayu, Монгол, Nederlands, 日本語, Нохчийн, Norsk (bokmål), Norsk (nynorsk), Occitan, O'zbek, پښتو, Polski, Português, Română, Rumantsch, Runa Simi, Русский, संस्कृत, Shqip, Slovenčina, Slovenščina, Soomaaliga, Српски / Srpski, Basa Sunda, Suomi, Svenska, Tagalog, தமிழ், Татарча/Tatarça, ไทย, Тоҷикӣ, Türkçe, Українська, اردو, Tiếng Việt, Volapük, Walon, Wolof, ייִדיש, Yorùbá, 中文.
Licensing notice: wPedia is released under CC-BY-SA: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
What's New in Version 1.1
Support Multi-Languages, shows articles history, display improvements.
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Nice, But...
This is a pretty slick app (at least it runs pretty smoothly on my iPod 4 w/ ios4), but the truth is, a sampling of the wiki database is pretty useless and cacheing is only good if you know what it is you're going to want to read later.
I'm a hopeless Wikipedia junkie, and I would pay 5X+ as much as this app costs for a good offline reader that doesn't act stupid or dead while downloading the db (note to all you geniuses out there), and I'm sure I'm not alone out here.
There seems to be quite a turnover of these apps, which usually amounts to lousy support and good intentions, but lack of commitment. Looks like a good offline Wiki app is just too big of a challenge for the iOS app development community.
helpful!
& love that now it's easily in app form.
Please Update
Same feeling there, too! It has not been updated for the way too long.
- $1.99
- Category: Education
- Updated: Aug 26, 2010
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 285 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Amr Aboelela
- © Amr Aboelela 2010
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
