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Originally Posted by Logseman
While I was reading the last thread about 3G, a user (ski_power) did mention this point in favor of 3G:
I admit I'm not a very active contributor-reader of Wikipedia, save for a starred article I helped to create.
However, the bolded sentence has really puzzled me. Where is the usefulness of Wikipedia outside of a web-browsing context?
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I've used an offline copy of Wikipedia in all sorts of contexts on my iTouch and iPad. Most recently was settling a restaurant argument about whether coconut oil was liquid or solid at room temp. Useful for looking up ingredients/meals when eating out abroad. Also for checking history of buildings/people when sightseeing. To me it is the true wonder of the modern age that you can carry a distillation of pretty close to all human knowledge in your pocket.