Comments on: Wikipedia anywhere

Wikipedia anywhere

Mwongozi — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 08:57:57 -0800

Wapedia is Wikipedia for your WAP phone or PDA. Alternatively, why not just download the whole thing and carry it with you?

By: CharlesV42

CharlesV42 — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:15:34 -0800

Because their download link is 404? :P

By: three blind mice

three blind mice — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:33:29 -0800

wankapedia

By: Mwongozi

Mwongozi — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:14:44 -0800

Well that's a Wikimedia link, and I don't know why it's not working. But you can make your own.

By: the_savage_mind

the_savage_mind — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:15:23 -0800

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that the beautiful cultural treasure known as Wikipedia is only available for download on Windows and commercial handheld OSs, and on top of that has to be read with for-pay software? I find something deeply, deeply perverse about that. It filthies up something I love so much. Bah!

By: revgeorge

revgeorge — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:57:24 -0800

the_savage_mind: you can download Media Wiki (the Wikipedia software) and the complete database and run it on whatever OS you have PHP and MySQL running on. Even a Free-as-in-political OS.

By: the_savage_mind

the_savage_mind — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:02:01 -0800

thanks, revgeorge. I appreciate the info.

By: majick

majick — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:02:29 -0800

Actually, the beautiful cultural treasure known as Wikipedia is available for download (scroll down a bit to wikipedia.en for the English language version) for any platform at all, and can be read by any old Perl script. This time, at least, you can put your alarmism back in your pocket.

By: Pretty_Generic

Pretty_Generic — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:08:19 -0800

Surely h2g2 would be more appropriate.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:15:48 -0800

When can I get it on my iPod? Including the pictures..

By: dreish

dreish — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:28:26 -0800

That (pda.en.wapedia.org) is a great find. It's exactly what I've been looking for for months now. Thanks.

By: Turtle

Turtle — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:44:14 -0800

Awesome. This is likely to settle bar arguments that I coudn't be bothered to use wap.google.com for. By the way, en.wapedia.org ("autodetect") gave an error on my pathetically old phone. wap.en.wapedia.org works great though.

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:08:56 -0800

Neither of those work on mine, and my phone's only a few months old. Now I'm frustrated; this is something I would use frequently. If only I'd never seen this post...

By: flippant

flippant — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 12:35:38 -0800

Yes! My GPRS bill is about to skyrocket. If you are asked about something you're clueless about, excuse yourself to the bathroom, whip out the Wiki and return a master. Oh, and for settling arguments :D