Wapedia - Wikipedia in Your Hand

[Micky]

Great article over on SymbianGuru about the Wapedia mobile website.

Originally Posted by Dotsisx

Today, everyone and their neighbor have heard about Wikipedia and use it frequently to get information on just about any subject. Heck I even used it to kick start work on my thesis this year! But if you have ever tried accessing Wikipedia on a mobile browser, you would have seen that the page is not optimized for the small screen and basically unusable. Since most of the time, you need information on-the-go and not when you’re sitting comfortably in front of your big computer screen, a solution had to be found. Enter Wapedia.mobi, the ultimate solution.

When you first access Wapedia, you are asked to select a language for search, which was one of my first surprises because I frequently use French and English versions of Wikipedia. Having this option is highly convenient for those of you who are looking for articles in a certain language. Score 1 for Wapedia.

Check it out.

Wapedia - Wikipedia In Your Hand

[Bartmanekul]

Useful for when someone says something you know is wrong :)

[Mr G]

Cheers Micky!

[Georgije]

it looks like a good idea for some cheaper phones.


but i'm happy with how wikipedia looks on my N95.

[Rusty]

Originally Posted by Bartmanekul

Useful for when someone says something you know is wrong :)

Not really, since it's a publicly editable site.

[Bartmanekul]

Yes, but that makes little difference.

Unless the person your talking to made up the thing in advance on Wiki, and no-one has corrected it in the meantime, its pretty much foolproof.

[Mr G]

Originally Posted by Georgije

it looks like a good idea for some cheaper phones.

What do you mean by that?

[Bartmanekul]

Screen size I presume.

[David1971]

Jus my two pennysworth, I think Georgije meant for phones that are less able to display full web pages than the N95. And Rusty is alluding to the fact that wikipedia does get a bit of a bashing for not being 100% accurate as it can be edited by anyone whether the information is factual or not.

[Jaustin]

Very cool but like others have said the regular version works fine but this will pry see alot of use on lower end phones.