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Wiki Offline delivers the premium reading experience for the entire corpus of human knowledge. This premiere service is the result of collaboration with over 1000 users just like you. Join the myriad of scientists, teachers, frequent flyers, vacationers, parents, and knowledge lovers whose lives have been improved by Wiki Offline.
Upon launching the app, you will be prompted to download Wikipedia onto your device. EVERY article will be available for you with no internet connection required. It has been meticulously compressed (English is under 3GB) while maintaining all of the
Upon launching the app, you will be prompted to download Wikipedia onto your device. EVERY article will be available for you with no internet connection required. It has been meticulously compressed (English is under 3GB) while maintaining all of the
What's New
Version 1.57:
- Bug fixes
- Layout tweaks in rendering of tables and code blocks
- Fixes when using command+click and shift+command+click to open pages in new tabs
Requirements
- Intel
- 64-bit processor.
- Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
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Wiki Offline delivers the premium reading experience for the entire corpus of human knowledge. This premiere service is the result of collaboration with over 1000 users just like you. Join the myriad of scientists, teachers, frequent flyers, vacationers, parents, and knowledge lovers whose lives have been improved by Wiki Offline.
Upon launching the app, you will be prompted to download Wikipedia onto your device. EVERY article will be available for you with no internet connection required. It has been meticulously compressed (English is under 3GB) while maintaining all of the data in every single article. (Note that pictures and tables are not included, but can be downloaded from within the app). This download is fully resumable and hosted on high speed servers located around the world.
After that, you can download the latest version of the database in the app, or you can download additional languages. Please note that there is a nominal $0.99 fee to partially offset our costs to deliver such large files (we usually lose money on this).
FEATURES:
Upon launching the app, you will be prompted to download Wikipedia onto your device. EVERY article will be available for you with no internet connection required. It has been meticulously compressed (English is under 3GB) while maintaining all of the data in every single article. (Note that pictures and tables are not included, but can be downloaded from within the app). This download is fully resumable and hosted on high speed servers located around the world.
After that, you can download the latest version of the database in the app, or you can download additional languages. Please note that there is a nominal $0.99 fee to partially offset our costs to deliver such large files (we usually lose money on this).
FEATURES:
- No internet connection required (after initial download)
- Real-time search and article loading
- Image gallery
- Supports embedded images and tables in articles
- In-page search
- Full screen viewing for best reading experience
- Bookmarks, full page history, and Table of Contents
- Automatic page redirects
- Customize font and theme
- Ability to download the latest version of articles from the internet
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BUT... I shall keep on using the online database. 3 gigabytes is a lot of disk space after all.
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Prologos reviewed on 24 Feb 2012
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Rich1642 reviewed on 30 Nov 2011
It's a shame that this program doesn't support PPC because there is a definite correlation between people with older computers and lack of internet access. I can get it on my intel mac and ipad, but not PPC?
I've bit torrenting the Wikimedia XML package, scraping the site , but still no luck. It is a shame that poorer people get left out of the picture again and disappointing that wikipedia hasn't made more efforts to cater for people withoiut internet.
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THIS IS A FIVE STAR APP. in both its iOS and OS X versions.
Can somebody could tell me how to edit it.
Nassifer reviewed on 16 Jul 2011
Thanks for the good work.
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avocadohills reviewed on 07 Feb 2011
I'm the developer of the app. I'm really excited to have this app on the mac app store.
Please feel free to ask me any questions or send any feedback to me: support ___at____ avocadohills.com
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The problem is that I host these multi-gigabyte files on a CDN, and this costs a lot of money. I have tried in the past allowing unlimited, free additional databases and updates on my iPhone/iPad version. It didn't work -- my CDN bill hemorrhaged money. So now on the iPhone/iPad there is an in-app purchase that allows you to buy "database tokens".
The Mac App Store does not allow in-app purchases, which makes this tricky. Likely what I will do is that the next version will come with, say, 5 "database tokens" for free. You will be able to use this to download entire dump updates or additional languages. This still doesn't answer the question of what happens after you use those database tokens that come with the app.
I'm open to suggestions! Please engage with me at support ___at___ avocadohills.com
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Downloading and embedding images is, of course, free. But it does obviously require you to have an internet connection. Any images are cached for future offline use.