WikiReader

#1

Post by wildergarden » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 6:15 AM UTC

WikiReader
en.wikipedia.org

Re: WikiReader

#2

Post by tech234a » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 6:58 AM UTC

Although not a dedicated hardware device, Kiwix makes it very easy to browse Wikipedia offline on both desktop and mobile devices: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

Re: WikiReader

#3

Post by 64operator » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 7:06 AM UTC

I own one of these, its excellent. I leave it in my car.

Re: WikiReader

#4

Post by Lammy » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 7:08 AM UTC

https://old.reddit.com/r/wikireader/

I remember getting one of these from woot-dot-com (iirc?) back in The Day. My dad really liked it.

Re: WikiReader

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Post by tunnuz » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 7:13 AM UTC

tech234a wrote: post #2

Although not a dedicated hardware device, Kiwix makes it very easy to browse Wikipedia offline on both desktop and mobile devices: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

Thanks for the pointer.

Re: WikiReader

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Post by dkwr » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 7:51 AM UTC

> "The last official WikiReader image was released by Pandigital in 2011. However, there exists an active fork [...]" > "The latest update was released by this community in June 2021."

Nice to see that a community-backed project can outlive the official one for such a long time and keep it alive. Shows how good open source can be.

Re: WikiReader

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Post by kohbo » Sun, Dec 03, 2023, 10:50 AM UTC

tech234a wrote: post #2

Although not a dedicated hardware device, Kiwix makes it very easy to browse Wikipedia offline on both desktop and mobile devices: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

Sad to see the Android app hasn't been updated in 5 years

Re: WikiReader

#8

Post by SushiHippie » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 12:22 AM UTC

kohbo wrote: post #7

tech234a wrote: post #2

Although not a dedicated hardware device, Kiwix makes it very easy to browse Wikipedia offline on both desktop and mobile devices: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

Sad to see the Android app hasn't been updated in 5 years

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kiwix.kiwi...

> Updated on Oct 22, 2021

https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android

last commit 9 hours ago

EDIT: Oh I see the F-Droid one wasn't updated in a while https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues/3376 https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-android/issues/3460

Re: WikiReader

#9

Post by Scoundreller » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 12:49 AM UTC

tech234a wrote: post #2

Although not a dedicated hardware device, Kiwix makes it very easy to browse Wikipedia offline on both desktop and mobile devices: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/

I feel cool having a "doomsday" phone with offline maps, wikipedia and a few other references in kiwix, music, a few weeks worth of podcasts... and curious to know what else one should have.

Now if apple could just shoot me a few kb of news/weather updates by pointing it at one of their satellites, we'd be really cooking.

(Other than a solar panel and I got a cigarette lighter adapter with clips at the end so I can charge off a car battery without turning on all the accessories)

Re: WikiReader

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Post by RodgerTheGreat » Mon, Dec 04, 2023, 1:40 AM UTC

I've written a few applications for WikiReaders using the built-in Forth interpreter: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Wikireader-Adventures