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Comments and suggestions regarding these interfaces should be added to the [[Wikipedia_talk:WAP_access|discussion page]] for this article.

== Access detailsinformation ==

All three methods are listed here, both 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 [[Uniform_Resource_Locator|URL]], would normally be entered as a [[bookmark]] in a wireless device (as opposed to being used with a PC). Please note that no [[search engine]] is available – the name of the starting article must either be known in advance or guessed correctly.

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== Technical details ==

The first interface, <tt><nowiki>http://wap.fluffypeople.com/wiki</nowiki></tt> interface, has been written using [[Perl]] to translate Wikipedia pages to [[Wireless Markup Language|WML]] as reliably as possible. The <tt><nowiki>http://wp.alf.nu</nowiki></tt> url isinterface merely provides a shorter urlURL for the <tt>fluffypeople</tt>first interface, bypassing the form.

The second interface, <tt><nowiki>http://www.deth.dsl.pipex.com/wiki.wml</nowiki></tt> interface, is simply a WML page &ndash; shown below &ndash; that may be stored on aany 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.

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