Wikipedia:WAP access

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As of June 2007, Wikipedia now provides official access for wireless devices such as mobile telephones and PDAs. The site is at en.wap.wikipedia.org.

On the other hand, 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.

http://en.wap.wikipedia.org/
http://en.wap.wikipedia.org/

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[edit] Wikipedia direct

Wikipedia direct offers free access in real time to all sections of Wikipedia in read-only mode. In addition to the English version, Wikipedia direct also supports more than ten languages . With access via en.wikipedia.org and Microsoft Pocket PC, it is not necessary for the transformation of specific pages (layout on a column). All functions can be used.

Sub-domains of Wikipedia have been established to receive a wireless Application Protocol in several languages. Offer an hybrid protocol between XML and HTML, to be used by mobile devices, but computers as well. It respect almost all types of browsers (eg, WAP, iMode, XHTML).


[edit] Opera Mini

Opera Mini is a java based internet browser for mobile phones which supports full wikipedia access (identical content to that viewed on a computer) and has a built-in wikipedia search facility.

[edit] 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.wapedia.org/en/Wapedia_Languages.
  • Recent 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.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. [1]

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.
*editing is currently disabled on the English wikipedia due to the service being blocked as an open proxy.

[edit] m.miniwiki.org

Miniwiki.org is a simple mobile site for Pocket PC and Palm device. It synchronizes its content with Wikipedia at real time.

The site offers the following features:

  • Support all languages of Wikipedia, including Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
  • Support one-stop search for a keyword available in any Wikipedia sites.
  • Keyword filtering for countries that impose internet censorship.

[edit] Mlvb.net

Mlvb.net can offer full access to Wikipedia and different versions. However, in some countries like China which censors every URL users try to access, mlvb.net may be blocked.

[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. Current versions of Wikipedia articles are not available. The whole HawPedia sources are available as OpenSource.

[edit] Cellify!

Mobile-tailored versions of Wikipedia articles are provided at no addtional cost as a free service from Cellify!, directly from a phone's or PDA's web browser:

[edit] Answers.com

Answers.com also has a wap site, viewable at mobile.answers.com.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sevenval: Wikipedia:. Retrieved on 2008-02-25.