comoki.com - 12/15/2008
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Wikipedia Mobile Version 1.0 Read and browse Wikipedia easily on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With perfectly formatted articles, outstanding features and excellent usability, Wikipedia Mobile makes it easy to search and read Wikipedia anywhere, in any language. Now available in the App Store.
iwf.org.uk - 12/9/2008
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iwf.org.uk —
IWF Logo A Wikipedia webpage was reported through
the IWF's online reporting mechanism on 4 December 2008....
As with all potentially illegal online child sexual abuse reports we receive, the image was assessed according to current UK legislation and in ...
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IWF statement regarding Wikipedia webpage
micropersuasion.com - 12/15/2008
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micropersuasion.com —
Although home grown alternatives have been around for
awhile now, Wikipedia recently launched its own official mobile...
site at http://mobile.wikipedia.org/. The site is very basic, which is exactly what mobile users will want it to be. It's also ...
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Wikipedia Launches Official Mobile Site
guardian.co.uk - 12/10/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
Britain's internet censor has backtracked on its decision
to ban a Wikipedia page for containing a "potentially...
illegal" image of a naked child. Over the weekend it emerged that the Internet Watch Foundation, which operates a blacklist to screen out ...
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British censor reverses Wikipedia ban |
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First Look: Wikipedia Mobile
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
... With the new native iPhone Wikipedia Mobile app from Comoki Software, all that has changed. The information is neatly formatted for the iPhone, using disclosure triangles to hide or show information in sections of each article. There's a summary section on most pages that can be expanded to fill the iPhone screen by tapping an arrow in the upper left corner. ...
Wikipedia finally (and officially) joins the mobile cloud
MobileCrunch —
... Mobile Wikipedia may not be as flashy as some of its Apple App Store competition, but its free, its official, and it should work on just about any mobile device that can connect to the cloud. ...
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