vIndianz.com (Aug. 20, 2009) You’ve already seen plenty of apps that bring Wikipedia to your iPhone, but now Wikipedia launches their own official iPhone app called ‘Wikipedia Mobile’ as part of a drive to open the pages of its revered online encyclopedia to the booming ranks of smart phone users.
Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organisation behind Wikipedia, said that the free iPhone App will be available to download from the iTunes App Store.
The Wikimedia Foundation said the application was easier to use than having to browse the web on their phone to find a specific fact, and also had the advantage of saving the user’s search history.
Several other developers have also created Wiki-style encyclopedia apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, such as an unofficial iPhone app like Wikiamo, the third party app in some cases actually have more functionality than the official app released by the Wikimedia Foundation.
However the foundation has acknowledged the fact and insisted that was focusing on “speed and simplicity” with the first version of its software.
The Wikipedia app for iPhones is an open-source, first version that the foundation hopes to incrementally upgrade with input from software savants worldwide.
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