Wed 12 Sep 2007
Wikipedia is one the first places I visit to search for information on the Internet (besides Google, of course). Unfortunately, the current Wikipedia is not “mobile” friendly. If you load Wikipedia home page using the built-in S60 Web browser, you would see something like below.
Personally, I hate doing horizontal scrolling. It’s quite annoying for me. There is a solution for this problem, for example using Opera Mini to load Wikipedia page.
Today, I read an interesting posting on Lifehacker.com about Top 10 Wikipedia Tricks. It mentioned a web site, called Wapedia (http://www.wapedia.mobi) that reformat Wikipedia pages to our mobile devices. As you can see in the screenshots below, the layout of Wikipedia page is much better than above.
To use Wapedia, simply run your S60 Web browser and type http://www.wapedia.mobi.
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September 14th, 2007 at 5:14 am
Yes, Antony, the “original Wikipedia” is a PITA on a mobile phone. Really do not understand why the still didn´t optimize it for mobile purposes.. Wapedia is way ahead on that field.
Still, i think it´s worth mentioning that Wikipedia can also be downloaded and installed as an ebook. I lost the link to the english version but i know of a german version available. In fact, it´s about 500mb in size, so it should only be considered by “heavy wikipedia users”.
Thanks again for keeping up the good work and sorry to hear that some of your work seems lost - i feel with you!
Bless, phanthomas
September 14th, 2007 at 6:22 am
@phantomas: The accident with the web hosting is purely my fault. I should have paid more attention when I did something. Stupid me…
January 11th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Just make an opera mini quick search..
1. open operamini
2. navigate to wikipedia
3. click on the search field
4. press your options button
5. select \
January 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
cont..
5. select ‘create search’
6. press save
…for now on, just press #9, select wiki, and do a search.