Wikipedia on your mobile device

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Wikipedia on your mobile device

« on: June 22, 2006, 07:01:07 PM »

Here is an interesting one I ran across today: Wikipedia on your handheld or cellphone:

http://www.en.wapedia.org/

According to the site:

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Having started in August 2004, Wapedia brings the contents of Wikipedia to mobile devices like mobile phones and PDAs. It 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.

It comes in 18 languages, if I counted correctly, but you only access the information. The real breakthrough would be to actually be able to edit or create entries in Wikipedia right off of your mobile device....


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Re: Wikipedia on your mobile device

« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2006, 12:50:28 PM »

I've been experimenting with making mobile entries to a wiki using a mobile device (O2 xda mini with GPRS). It tends to be a bit time-consuming to navigate to the page to make your text entry, but making text entries is straightforward compared to uploading images which is just unworkable.

With Flickr, on the other hand, you have a mobile Flickr which works amazingly well. I timed it and it took me 58 seconds to upload a 65K picture I'd taken. The nice thing about mobile FlickR is that it takes you straight to the page where you need to be so there is no timeconsuming navigating around.

There is also a "blog your photo" option on the main FlickR site which works well. Unfortunately this is not available on the mobile page (or at least I couldn't find it).

Do Wikipedia have a page for mobile entries?