Wikipedia Reader Widget
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Wikipedia Reader Widget is a Web Runtime application that allows reading Wikipedia pages in a format appropriate for small screens. Most Wikipedia Widget source is in the public domain. See Licenses and acknowledgements for more details.
| Updated 04/03/2010: : | Version 1.0rc5 available! |
| Comes with Code: | File:Wikipedia.wgz |
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Installation
- Get the widget from File:Wikipedia.wgz
- Upload the Wikipedia.wgz file to your phone (e.g. by sending over Bluetooth)
- Open the .wgz file by clicking or tapping, and proceed with installation
- After installation, the application icon can be found in the "Applications" or "Installations" folder depending on phone model
For detailed installation instructions see How to get an app to the phone.
Source
If you are interested in viewing the Wikipedia Reader widget source code, the code is available in the installation package. Just change file extension to zip and unzip the file.
If you are interested in contributing fixes to the widget, the mercurial repository can be found here.
All code written specifically for this widget is in the public domain - no license is required for any use. However, a number of files in the package have their own license (e.g. WRTKit). Please refer to license text in source files for details.
Support
Supported phones
The Wikipedia Reader widget is in beta, but should work on:
- All Series 60 3rd Edition FP2 and later phones
- Samsung Series 60 3rd Edition FP1
- Nokia Series 60 3rd Edition FP1 phones with latest firmware update
Known issues
Widget has Beta support for reading Wikipedia in all available languages. This function has following issues:
- Even though content and searching in any language is generally working, menus and messages are not localised yet
- FIXED IN 1.0RC4
History and Bookmarks do not remember the language in which page was viewed ("only current language" issue) - FIXED IN 1.0RC4
In history and bookmarks views, article titles may not be displayed correctly for some scripts ("unicode storage" issue).
| Warning This widget is under active development. While we find current version adequate for reading Wikipedia articles, it has not been thoroughly tested and some articles may not display correctly. |
Current version
Current widget version is [1.0rc5]
Version history
1.0rc5 Fixes for multi-language reading in 5th edition phones
1.0rc4 Fixes for bookmarks and history, now remembers each item's language
1.0rc3 Fixed encoding issue which had several manifestations
1.0rc2 Fixed search language, Fixed problems with apostrophe in article name
1.0rc1 Beta support for other languages, About section, Licenses and acknowledgements, Bug fixes
1.0beta2 History view, Bookmarks view, Help page, Auto-updates, Complete CSS style set (some styles are still in development), Bugfixes
1.0alpha1 Initial version. Reading works, with a few bugs.
Licenses and acknowledgements
Widget source
Most Wikipedia Widget source is in the public domain. Exception are several source files derived from Nokia WRT. Please refer to source code for details.
Wikipedia name and logo
Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. a non-profit organization.
Wikipedia content
Wikipedia content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details.
Graphics
The title-bar and home-screen graphic has been derived from Jay Hilgert's Fancy Glass Headers.
Related projects
For offline access to Wikipedia, try Wikipedia SQL Demo application. Wikipedia SQL Demo works without an internet connection, however it requires a large database file to be downloaded and copied to the phone.
Comments
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Jamaalism said…
Ivanl said…
Thanks Jaamalism for your comment. I'll test on N86 and see what's going on. Keep the comments coming!!! Thanks
--Ivanl 17:25, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
Mbrett said…
Working nicely so far on Nokia N97 (S60v5), Product code 0585262 (Voda UK Branded) with FW 20.0.19. Not see the click and hold issue that Jamaalism mentioned.
Have noticed that the search results screen may be alittle too sensitive on N97 as when scrolling often tends to open one of the results, assuming that the result on which you touch to start the kinetic scroll is responded to too quickly.
Also can be a little laggy. If you click back whilst it is loading data it seems to get confused.
Not possible to use the scroll bar. Have to use kinetic scroll. See earlier comment on kinetic scroll issue.
These issues appear in both Landscape and portrate modes.
When using back to return to the intial seach screen right hand soft button remains as "Back" and thus does nothing. Should this change to "Exit"?
All this said this is an early version and love the app.
--Mbrett 07:54, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Larsk said…
Works on my N97. Also see the scroll bar issue. The app icon is a few pixels too big to look good on the homescreen shortcuts
--Larsk 11:16, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Am magsombol said…
Also works on my 5800 (fw ver 31.0.008). Useful app and a must have on every phone. Noticeable design flaw for me, just what Mbrett said, is the Back button which didn't change to Exit after returning to the main page thus becomes non-functional.
Feature request: 1. Ability to forward to the oldest visited page during the session, and if possible, without requerying.
2. Ability to view/erase the entire search history.
(posted using my Nokia 5800)
--Am magsombol 14:50, 6 January 2010 (UTC)
Igudov said…
I've tested this on my N95-1, the widget works and displays the article correctly, but some of the text (especially factual descriptions at the very beginning of an article - see HTML wiki for example) goes beyond the screen's boundaries, thereby becoming unreadable (portrait mode). The body of the article fits the screen properly though. Other than that, everything seems to be ok.
--Igudov 16:04, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
Dave.vdv said…
I installed the widget on my samsung I8910 HD, it installed but the name under the icon from wikipedia was accuweather (something that i deleted on my phone a few days ago). When i tried to open it i could see the screen but couldn't put any text in the text field. After trying a few times my onscreen keyboard appeared half and dissappeared again.
Not sure if this is an issue with accuweather not deleted completly or the wikipedia widget not working right on the samsung.
--Dave.vdv 11:01, 9 January 2010 (UTC)
Kyros said…
Cool widget! I has only one issue: I don't want to search in en.wikipedia.org - since I live in Austria I want to see the results in de.wikipedia.org
Solution (Linux): 1) open widget with archive manager. 2) change to folder /Wikipedia/ 3) open file Wiki.js with text editor (gedit) 4) in line 12 change
var baseUrl = "http://en.wikipedia.org"; in var baseUrl = "http://de.wikipedia.org"; or any other default wikipedia URL you want to see in the widget.
5) save the file, close archive manager and install the widget on your s60 phone - done!
--Kyros 23:56, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
Anphas3 said…
Works great on the Samsung i8910. Only there's a small a keypad bug. When the keypad is set to QWERTY and the phone is held upright(in portrait), the full QWERTY keypad appears chopped. Probably because there's no portrait QWERTY for the i8910. Full QWERTY only works in landscape orientation. It's a small bug though. Hope I'm making sense. Cheers
--Anphas3 07:37, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
Cpi012001 said…
Where is already an Wikipedia application. from Handango. Why do we need another ?
--Cpi012001 10:05, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Stichbury said…
Is the wikipedia app on Handango free? Can you see the source code as you can with this widget? Is it something others can work on and extend/improve as part of a community development project?
And, anyway, so what if there are more than one? You can also access Wikipedia through your phone's web browser. There are loads of different suduko apps, different newspapers, differen versions of email, different operating systems. Why the artificial limit of one of everything?
--Stichbury 12:10, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Cpi012001 said…
OK.Thanks for your answer ! I can accept as a good reason "the love of the diversity concept"... But, for stupid practical people like me (I am only an architect and town planning expert, and building energy saving expert, and....)..should be a more valid reason to choose one or another. Maybe..this possibility to find the source... I shall check what does it means..(in practical terms) ...and I shall decide for me ! Thanks again
--Cpi012001 12:41, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
Ivanl said…
Updated version -1.0beta2 is now available! Apart from a number of general improvements, page rendering should be considerably better now. New features also include browsing history, bookmarks and auto-update.
There are a few great ideas posted here - notably the language switching trick by Kyros. I am looking for the best way to incorporate this into the app.
Keep the comments and ideas coming!
--Ivanl 11:40, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
Gagua said…
Works on my nokia 5800, but I get an error when I try to open a link with the apostrophe (e.g. "Isola d'Elba")
--Gagua 19:58, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Ivanl said…
Hi Gagua,
The apostrophe bug has been fixed in 1.0rc2 . You can download/install again or use the "Check for updates" from the menu to get the latest version.
Thanks, Ivan
--Ivanl 15:41, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Gagua said…
Thank you, Ivanl, i have updated, but i get the same error in the wiki page (not the results search page). Try this: Isola d'Elba -> Elba -> Campo nell'Elba -> ReferenceError: c is not defined
Ciao Gagua
--Gagua 12:14, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Ivanl said…
Ciao Gagua,
Thanks very much for reporting, testing and good instructions on how to reproduce the problem! This is now fixed along with a few other problems. Please upgrade and let me know how it went.
Thanks
--Ivanl 17:02, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
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Works on my Nokia N86 but I am not able to easily open sub-categories within a topic.. I have to click and hold on the sub-category link to be able to expand it..
--Jamaalism 16:49, 5 January 2010 (UTC)