![]() ![]() ![]() This wasn’t a problem at all for me, but it does raise the question of building a nicer way to do the same thing.Ī GUI frontend couldn’t be that difficult to construct, although making it cross-platform and reliable would be a bit of a challenge. On the downside, it can be a little daunting to use if you’re inexperienced with a UNIX-style command-line. This has both an upside and a downside: on a positive note, this inherently limits the number of people that will use this utility, and so saves the Wikimedia Foundation’s bandwidth and server resources in no small way. Wikipod is a script, rather than an easily-executable application like one would expect. ![]() Here are some impressions from my time with Wikipod. ![]() The script allows the user to download entire Wikipedia articles - sans images, infoboxes and other hard-to-scale information - to view on their iPod using the built-in notes functionality. My newly acquired iPod 30GB is sitting before me, quietly holding a bunch of Wikipedia articles downloaded just now using Matt Swann’s Wikipod script. I’ve left the review intact, but bear in mind that the problem of feedback has now been corrected in the current version of Wikipod. Wikipod now provides better feedback to the user, informing them of how many articles have already been downloaded as it progresses, and I’m overjoyed to see how responsive Matt was to this piece of criticism. Update: Colour me amazed! Just a few hours after I sent my changes to Matt, noted at the bottom of this page, he updated the script to take them into account - and so this piece of criticism simply doesn’t apply anymore. ![]()
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