[jfisher]

Quick little app that allows you to search wikipedia without having to navigate the messy webpage from your blackberry browser: Wikipedia Application for BlackBerry

should work on any 4.0.0 device

[jeremyckitching]

Cool app

[plchan]

Great! thanks for the link and I am downloading it now.

[plchan]

I just installed and gave it a try. However, I found out it does not work on my "enter" key. I would have to click on the trackwheel for the "Search / Go" button.

btw, I installed it on my 8700g with 4.2.x OS loaded.

[LunkHead]

Sweeeeeeet! Thank you sir!!!

[4n6doc]

Very nifty....nice find!

[4n6doc]

A shame that it doesn't let you specify which browser it opens. I'd prefer to open wiki pages in Opera Mini.

[rivviepop]

This site does a great job of mobilizing the Wikipedia pages:

http://pda.wapedia.mobi/en/

This could be integrated easily...

http://pda.wapedia.mobi/en/Special:Search?search={SEARCH_TERM}&skl=Go&type=

[jfisher]

there are a few sites that leverage wikipedia content into a wap friendly form - but they're unofficial and not funded so i wouldnt put them in an app as they may not be around for long.

will make the enter-key changes though.

re: browser choice - it should launch whatever your default browser is - i'm not sure you can launch opera with a website (ie. i dont know if you can pass aruments to it to open at a specific page)

[John Clark]

I've not found any way to launch Opera from a link. It's not included in the list of browsers to set as default.

[he1neken]

Awesome app. It's a pain navigating the main page of Wikipedia looking for the search box. Especially when you are trying to settle an argument quickly

[JaredH]

Flawless

[jfisher]

Originally Posted by he1neken

Awesome app. It's a pain navigating the main page of Wikipedia looking for the search box. Especially when you are trying to settle an argument quickly

exactly - it's good for cheating at pub quizzes

[sirgruffil]

Does not work for me, I'm afraid. When I try to run it, the app aborts with an out of memory error. I have a 7290 running 4.0.2.35 OS.

[jfisher]

all the software i make is built on the 4.2 jde - for the stuff i do outside work for free i'm not going to spend time to support older devices - sorry! (i'll add a note to make the situation clearer)

[OrganicBerry]

I'm getting the same out of mem error on an 8703e (4.1 OS).

Looks like a great app though.

[DiRN]

The other day I used this to search for "c union." When I clicked Search, Wikipedia said there were no matches found for "_cunion." Clicking Go seemed to handle the text fine though.

[dparvin]

Excellent! I love it, thank you