Wikipedia:WAP access

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Although Wikipedia does not provide official access for wireless devices such as mobile telephones and PDAs, several Wikipedia users have each provided a mechanism by which it is possible to gain quick access to articles using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

These methods are listed here, to provide a choice and so that access can continue if any one should become unavailable. Only one need be chosen, and the corresponding address, or URL, would normally be entered as a bookmark in a wireless device (as opposed to being used with a PC).

Comments and suggestions regarding these interfaces should be added to the discussion page for this article.

1 en.wapedia.mobi
2 wikipedia.7val.com
3 fruise.googlepages.com/wiki.wml
4 HawPedia

[edit] en.wapedia.mobi

Having started in August 2004, Wapedia offers the recent version of every article, which is done by using a combination of a proxy-like behavior and a local article database. This combination provides fast speed and up-to-date articles on the one hand, and a low load and low traffic for the Wikipedia servers on the other hand.

Features:

Long pages are divided into smaller chunks to fit into the small displays of mobile phones.
Images are scaled down to the resolution of the mobile device.
Its own fast search engine is used, independent from Wikipedia servers.
It supports WML and modern XHTML Mobile formats, with an auto-detection of the best format for each device.
All languages with more than 1000 articles are available. See http://www.en.wapedia.org/wapedia:Languages.
Current versions of articles are delivered.
Users can configure the size of images and other options like the size of the start page, or if they want to edit sections
A local article database provides full service and high speed, even if the Wikipedia servers don't respond or aren't fast enough.

URL: http://wapedia.mobi

More information: http://www.en.wapedia.org

[edit] wikipedia.7val.com

After consultations with Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. (German Wikimedia association) and Wikimedia Foundation, Sevenval AG offers a free real-time transformation of the current Wikipedia. The link to the service is http://wikipedia.7val.com. It offers a full-blown version of Wikipedia for all kinds of mobile devices. This enables mobile users to edit articles and administer their personal accounts. Wikipedia's sister projects – Wiktionary, etc. – can be accessed via this service as well. 50 languages of Wikipedia are supported.

The following features are currently available.

Device recognition of mobiles, smartphones, PDAs, etc., which enables the individualised adaptation of the presentation transmitted to different types of devices.
Complete administration of articles including editing, history, discussions, etc.
Complete administration of user accounts and automatic login if cookies are allowed.
Automatic language recognition at wikipedia.7val.com.
Direct access to 50 language by using a URL prefix, for example http://en.wikipedia.7val.com for English and http://fi.wikipedia.7val.com for Finnish. A list of languages can found here.

[edit] fruise.googlepages.com/wiki.wml

http://fruise.googlepages.com/wiki.wml is simply a WML page – shown below – that may be stored on any suitably-configured web server. When accessed using a suitable device, it will allow the name of an existing Wikipedia article to be entered and retrieved. It works by fetching the article via Google's WML proxy server which translates the article from HTML to a sequence of WML pages.

The page should be served with the correct content type header (text/vnd.wap.wml). Since this is not currently the case, some devices will give an error message, e.g. indicating that the wrong MIME type was used.


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<card title="Wikipedia.org">
<p>
Google proxy <input emptyok="true" name="q"/>
<a href="http://wmlproxy.google.com/wmltrans/h=en/u=http@3A@2F@2Fen.wikipedia.org@2Fwiki@2F$(q)/c=0">Go!</a>
</p>
</card>
</wml>

[edit] HawPedia

HawPedia provides a pure-text version of Wikipedia articles and delivers it in a format that is optimized for several mobile devices (WAP, XHTML, etc.).

HawPedia has been written as demo and reference application for the HAWHAW PHP library. The whole HawPedia sources are available as OpenSource.