Although Wikipedia does not provide official access for wireless devices such as mobile telephones, four Wikipedia users have each provided a mechanism by which it is possible to gain quick access to text-only versions of articles using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).
All five 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 URL, would normally be entered as a bookmark in a wireless device (as opposed to being used with a PC). Please note that for the first three no search engine is available – the name of the starting article must either be known in advance or guessed correctly.
Comments and suggestions regarding these interfaces should be added to the discussion page for this article.
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 like Wiktionary etc. can be accessed via this service as well. All active languages of Wikipedia are supported.
The following features are currently available:
- Device recognition of mobiles, smartphones, PDAs etc.. which enables the individualised adaption 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 any language by using url prefix like http://en.wikipedia.7val.com for English or http://fi.wikipedia.7val.com for Finnish. A list of languages can found [here]
Forthcoming features will be published here.
wap.fluffypeople.com/wiki
http://wap.fluffypeople.com/wiki provides a search box into which a query may be entered. An intelligent translation of the article pages is provided. It breaks the articles into smaller chunks, which may be better suited to certain devices. It has been written using Perl to translate Wikipedia pages to WML as reliably as possible. Access is logged by IP address. The http://wp.alf.nu interface merely provides a shorter URL for the first interface, bypassing the form.
www.deth.dsl.pipex.com/wiki.wml
http://www.deth.dsl.pipex.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.
<?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>
en.wapedia.org
Having started in August 2004, Wapedia brings the content of Wikipedia to mobile devices like mobile phones and PDAs. It offers the recent version of every article, which is done 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.
- Own fast search engine, independent from Wikipedia servers
- Supports WML and modern XHTML Mobile, with autodetection of the best format
- 10 languages - others will follow if requested. See http://www.en.wapedia.org/wapedia:Languages
- fetching of current versions of articles on demand
- a local article database to provide full access and high speed, even if the Wikipedia servers don't respond or aren't fast enough
More information: http://www.en.wapedia.org