Wikipedia Comes to the iPhone with Wikipanion
A new school year is about to start and students nationwide will be clamoring for ways to keep up with their school work. With many schools starting to offer free iPod Touches, iPhones, and laptops, the iTunes App Store will be one of the first places to go for back-to-school apps.
The new school year also means that research via Wikipedia is going to be on the rise. Fortunately for those with iPhones and iPod Touches, they can now access Wikipedia anywhere while on the go with Wikipanion from the iTunes App Store.
Wikipanion Review
Wikipanion (iTunes link) is the best application out for Wikipedia on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This app is simply genius and gives you a simplified version of Wikipedia without leaving out any of the site's extra features. To simply the site to fit the screen size of the iPhone, the normal links that you'd see to each section of an article are foregone on the main screen. Instead, there's a small icon located at the bottom of the app that's similar to the bookmark button in Safari on the iPhone. Using this button, users can access all the sections of an article.
Looking for the list of sources, related topics, and external links for your article? There's a button to access these features also. You not only get to see the links, but you can open them in Safari. According to the developers site, loading Wikipedia pages with Wikipanion is a lot faster than accessing the Wikipedia site from the iPhone's browser. To be honest, we agree.
Wikipanion: The New College Student's Bible
With just about everything accessible from this app including pictures, links, and more, the only thing that's missing is an automatic bibliography creator. Students and Wikipedia fans alike will definitely find this app to be enjoyable. However, if you're into creating articles on Wikipedia, I'm afraid this isn't the app for you. There's no way to edit an article. However, all of Wikipedia's articles are now accessible with just one click with Wikipanion.
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Posted by: Mona N.
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August 25, 2008 7:45 PM
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Posted by: Kyle Lacy
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August 25, 2008 7:47 PM
LOL, the only problem I have with Wiki is that its run by a bunch of fascist who dictate what does and what does not show up on their pages despite the facts.
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This app sucks!
Go to http://wikipedia.comoki.com/ for an awesome web-based reformatting & save as webclip!
This app sucks!
Go to http://wikipedia.comoki.com/ for an awesome web-based reformatting & save as webclip!
Just wait for an application called Qwikipedia. It'll be so much better than this one!
Mmmm not so good ...
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Great idea, however Wikipedia is not recommended as a reliable resource for students to base academic work on. If we were to use it as a reference in an essay, at University in Australia, we'd get penalized.
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It's a decent app, but there are a lot better ones at:
http://www.sciphoneapps.com
I think ipodia's upcoming wikipedia for iphone will be the bad ass. wikipanion is weak in comparison but is the only available app for it.
it is really a good news.
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Comments area turn out to be a billboard! So sad. Well, it looks like a good application. I should give it a try. Thank you for the posting...
This is really great news. Is this app from wikipedia or a other party?
Does it need a internet connection or use a local database copy?