This project was fully functional but was discontinued in 2008 when Apple released a native SDK. I've just moved it from Google Code since it's shutting down, and am keeping it here mostly out of nostalgia :) It was the very first (to my knowledge) offline wikipedia reader for jailbroken iOS devices.
This project allows you to access the full content of Wikipedia anywhere on the planet with your iPhone / iPod Touch.
- Optimized for the iPhone screen
- Multiple concurrent languages
- Full-text and exact search on article titles
- Case insensitive and diacritic-insensitive search (searching for internationalisation will match articles containing IñtërnâtïôÑàlizãtiøn in their title)
- Images Including thumbs, inline, and galleries!
- Full UTF-8 support including CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
- Great parser (reuses a former semi-official wikimedia parser) Most of the wiki grammar supported:
- References
- Lists
- TOC
- Tables
- Cite templates
- Infobox templates
- Footnotes, cross-linked with their location in the article text
- Math notations
- Filters out irrelevant article namespaces (Wikipedia:, Help:, Special:... language-dependent namespaces are detected automatically) to not pollute the search results page
- For more convenient browsing, a [top] link at every chapter header to come back to the top of the page
- Search form always handy
- Auto-Hide Safari address bar at page load
- Very decent index size (180Mb for the English version)
- 1-level redirects
- Works on your desktop if you want
- Easy for anyone to contribute (Perl/PHP)
- Runs in Safari: Zoom, landscape mode, back button etc coming out of the box
See for yourself:
