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==en.wapedia.org==

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Started in august 2004, wapedia brings the content of the wikipedia to mobile devices like mobile phones orand PDAs. It uses a local database to be independent fromserves the Wikipedia servers. So, the pages are served very fast. But it also fetchs the content from the Wikipedia servers on demand to serve always a recent version of every article. OldThis versionsis indone theby locala databasecombination areof onlya servedproxy-like ifbehavior theand wikipediaa Serverslocal doesn'tarticle respond fast enoughdatabase. TheThis combination of a local database and live updates provide fast speed and recent article on one side, and a low load and low traffic for the Wikipedia servers on the oherother side.

Features:

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* Own search engine, also independent from Wikipedia servers.

* Supports WML and modern XHTML Mobile

* 10 languages, more will follow if demanded. See http://www.en.wapedia.org/wapedia:Languages

* on demand fetching of recent versions of articles

* local article database to provide full access and high speed, even if the wikipedia Servers doesn't respond or respond not fast enough

URL: http://en.wapedia.org