Although Wikipedia does not provide official access for wireless devices such as mobile telephones and PDAs, three 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 three methods are listed here, 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).
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 – 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 adaptation 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 a URL prefix, for example http://en.wikipedia.7val.com for English and http://fi.wikipedia.7val.com for Finnish. A list of languages can found here.
en.wapedia.org
Having started in August 2004, Wapedia offers the recent version of every article, which is done by 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.
- Its own fast search engine is used, independent from Wikipedia servers.
- It supports WML and modern XHTML Mobile formats, with an auto-detection of the best format for each device.
- 19 languages are available – others will follow if requested. See http://www.en.wapedia.org/wapedia:Languages.
- Current versions of articles are delivered.
- users can configure size of images and other options like the size of the start page.
- A local article database provides full service and high speed, even if the Wikipedia servers don't respond or aren't fast enough.
More information: http://www.en.wapedia.org
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>