Wikidroyd is an application for Android enabled Smart phones and tablets which contains a full wikipedia content.It was launched summer 2009 by a German company. The app does not need an internet connection meaning it is the first offline wikipedia of its kind. Since wikipedia contains millions of articles it is difficult to accommodate the whole of its content in a few GIGABYTES, so what the company does is it compresses the the text to an extent that can be practically accommodated in a limited space available on the phone. Also the pictures have been removed to keep the size down for the above mentioned purpose.The database is available in English,Arabic,Italian,french,German,Persian,Hindi and a few other.The app is avaialable for free on the Google play market.The latest version is v1.
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| - Wikidroyd is an application for Android enabled Smart phones and tablets which contains a full wikipedia content.It was launched summer 2009 by a German company. The app does not need an internet connection meaning it is the first offline wikipedia of its kind. Since wikipedia contains millions of articles it is difficult to accommodate the whole of its content in a few GIGABYTES, so what the company does is it compresses the the text to an extent that can be practically accommodated in a limited space available on the phone. Also the pictures have been removed to keep the size down for the above mentioned purpose.The database is available in English,Arabic,Italian,french,German,Persian,Hindi and a few other.The app is avaialable for free on the Google play market.The latest version is v1.
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| - Article does not assert the notability or impact of the app . I cannot find independent articles asserting to the notability of the app. If the author could add them to this article, it may be retained. Feel free to contact my talk page if you have questions.
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| - Wikidroyd is an application for Android enabled Smart phones and tablets which contains a full wikipedia content.It was launched summer 2009 by a German company. The app does not need an internet connection meaning it is the first offline wikipedia of its kind. Since wikipedia contains millions of articles it is difficult to accommodate the whole of its content in a few GIGABYTES, so what the company does is it compresses the the text to an extent that can be practically accommodated in a limited space available on the phone. Also the pictures have been removed to keep the size down for the above mentioned purpose.The database is available in English,Arabic,Italian,french,German,Persian,Hindi and a few other.The app is avaialable for free on the Google play market.The latest version is v1.5. The app and its database is updated regularly and is keeping pace with the online wikipedia.
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