Tuesday, March 27, 2012
iTravel is dead. Long live WikiSherpa!
The latest iteration of the app comes with that most fundamental of changes, a new name. Why? Well, largely due to a trademark dispute, which frankly I think was bogus, but fighting it didn't seem worth the time and money that would be required. And I think the new name might be better. Welcome to WikiSherpa!
Since bandwidth has gotten cheaper over the last couple of years, I've also restructured the app so that you can bulk-download all of Wikitravel (and its associated Wikipedia pages) even from the free version. The only difference between the free version (WikiSherpa) and the paid version (WikiSherpa+) is that the latter is (and always will be) entirely ad-free.
Hope you like the changes, and have fun out there!
Jon Evans
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Hi, Jon!
Nice App. Is WikiSherpa open source as iTravel was? And if it is, what licence used and where we can see the code?
And question from another sphere. Can You add wikimapia support?
Is there a chance that you will change this program to use Wikivoyage instead of Wikitravel? Wikitravel stopped working at some point, presumably when Internet Brands decided to switch off the API.
The entire Wikivoyage database (2.7Gb if one includes full revision history) is now available for download at dumps.wikimedia.org/enwikivoyage/20121118/ now, so it would seem that Wikimedia is making it easy for WikiSherpa to use their data while WikiTravel is going out of their way to make things difficult (such as by killing off the API in MediaWiki). That, and the not-so-minor detail that the author has already announced in a TechCrunch piece that the switch will be made, makes this pretty much inevitable.
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