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Started in augustAugust 2004, wapediaWapedia brings the content of wikipediaWikipedia to mobile devices like mobile phones and PDAs. It servesoffers the recent version of every article., Thiswhich is done byusing a combination of a proxy-like behavior and a local article database. This combination provideprovides fast speed and recentup-to-date articlearticles on the one sidehand, and a low load and low traffic for the Wikipedia servers on the other sidehand.
Features:
* Long pages are seperateddivided into smaller chunks to fit into the small displays of mobile phones.
* Images are scaled down to the resolution of the mobile device.
* Own fast search engine, independent from Wikipedia servers
* Supports WML and modern XHTML Mobile, with autodetection of the best format
* 10 languages - moreothers will follow if requested. See http://www.en.wapedia.org/wapedia:Languages
* on demand fetching of recentcurrent versions of articles on demand
* a local article database to provide full access and high speed, even if the wikipediaWikipedia Serversservers doesndon't respond or are notaren't fast enough
