Christmas hacking project: Wikipedia on the iPhone

Here's another approach to building an offline Wikipedia reader: http://users.softlab.ece.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffli....

Very cool. I've recently started using http://keishi.net/ipodia/ for online Wikipedia browsing. Good if you iPhone isn't jailbroken.

Cool! And it will even fit on the 4GB iPhone.

Text only, probably

From Avi Bryant http://www.avibryant.com/2008/01/dont-panic.html: It's not perfect yet - there's no images, just text, and the parser is pretty basic and doesn't know about tables and stuff

An interesting idea, but I think that some sort of solution where you could not only keep a copy of Wikipedia in your pocket, but get rolling updates to it every day/week/time_period would be nicer. Especially on an iPhone/iPod Touch, with the wi-fi or EDGE.

write and submit a patch!

It would be nicer alright, but having used it for a while, I've found it doesn't make much difference. A Britannica edition used to last a decade; I can survive a few months without update.