Help:Mobile access: Difference between revisions

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Although [[Wikipedia]] does not provide official access tofor [[wireless]] devices such as [[mobile telephone]]s, it is possible to gain quick access to a text-only version of the [[HTML]]an pagesarticle using the [[Wireless Application Protocol]] (WAP).

The following [[Wireless Markup Language|WML]] page may be stored on a web server and, 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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For simplicityconvenience, the page is available at the following ___location – this address is intended to be entered as a [[bookmark]] in a wireless device.

http://www.deth.dsl.pipex.com/wiki.wml

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* Underscores must be entered between words, for example ''John_Titor'' rather than ''John Titor''.

When Wikipedia is under heavy load it may be slow in returning pages, which maycan cause the wireless connection to time-out.