#Wiki reader update#
#Wiki reader portable#
#Wiki reader code#

Archived from the original on 16 January 2012. ↑ Hall, Christopher (15 October 2010).Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. 'WikiReader Puts Wikipedia in Your Pocket'. ↑ 'WikiReader Development Site: Downloads'.↑ Hall, Christopher (15 October 2009).The WikiReader does support incremental search of article titles, beginning with the first characters of each title. Only the titles of Wikipedia articles can be searched. Search: The WikiReader's search capabilities are basic.Images, tables, mathematical formulas and other information that was not encoded strictly as plain text in the original Wikipedia article is silently deleted from the WikiReader's output. Treatment of missing information: The WikiReader does not provide any indication of gaps where information has been deleted from a Wikipedia article.This has been addressed with an optional firmware update, which is pre-loaded on newer WikiReaders. Mathematical formulas: Original versions of the WikiReader do not display Wikipedia article information encoded as a formula using LaTeX (see Math markup).HTML 'special characters': Certain Wikipedia article text encoded using HTML special characters is stripped from the WikiReader's output.Tables: The WikiReader does not display article text which appears inside a table on the Wikipedia Website (see Wikipedia:Tables).The device therefore does not store or display any Wikipedia images. Text-only display: The WikiReader is strictly a 'text only' display device.

Battery life: 90 hours equivalent to 1 year of normal use according to manufacturer.

File formats supported: native format a converter from MediaWiki's XML export format is available.

Storage: Removable microSD card (SD and SDHC supported, 512MB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB supported).

CPU: Epson S1C33 E07 microcontroller with 8KB+2KB internal memory.

Interface: Capacitive touchscreen with on-screen keyboard.

Display: Monochrome Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), 240 × 208 pixels.

Devices and homegrown updates are only available from the secondary markets. Existing WikiReaders no longer receive updates to their database. In late 2014, the WikiReader website and project itself were shut down and abandoned for unknown reasons. The device can also run programs written in Forth a simple calculator program is included. Unlike Wikipedia itself, the device features parental controls. Wikireader versions of the English Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote and Project Gutenberg can be installed together on a user-supplied 16 GB Micro SDHC Memory Card.

#Wiki reader update#

Updates in multiple languages were available online and a twice-yearly offline update service delivered via Micro SD card was also available at a cost of $29 per year.

#Wiki reader portable#

The project debuted an offline portable reader for Wikipedia in October 2009.

#Wiki reader code#

The project was sponsored by Openmoko and made by Pandigital, and its source code has been released. WikiReader was a project to deliver an offline, text-only version of Wikipedia on a mobile device. WikiReader displaying its virtual keyboard