On-line Access edit

Wikipedia users have provided several other mechanisms through which it is possible to have access to articles using the application protocol wireless (WAP), whose purpose is to allow access to the Internet using d a transmitting device wirelessly. These methods are listed here to provide choice for visitors and also that access can continue if one of them should become unavailable.

Wikipedia Direct
 
AuthorNorbert Huffschmid for Wikimedia Foundation
TypeOnline Reader
SystemWAP
Accesshttp://mobile.wikipedia.org/
Websitehttp://en.wikipedia.org
Description
Buggy, unsupported?
Wikipedia
File:Wikipedia-m-mobil.jpg
AuthorHampton Catlin for Wikimedia Foundation
TypeOnline Reader
Accesshttp://m.wikipedia.org
Websitehttp://en.wikipedia.org
Description
Official access to Wikipedia via mobile devices. First developed by Hcatlin on behalf of Wikimedia, the source code is now open for all to develop this template. Most mobile devices and the language user will be detected by the template and give direct access to this version when visited by Internet users. This mobile version of Wikipedia is at version 0.1 and still beta, but since the source code is open to all, this version will become more abundant. Currently available in read-only version of the mobile host may edit mode.
Sevenval
 
AuthorSevenval AG
TypeReader and on-line editor
SystemComputers

Mobile Phones Smartphones

PDAs
Accesswikipedia.7val.com
Websitehttp://www1.sevenval.de
Description
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. 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. 50 languages of Wikipedia are supported. [1]

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 50 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.
*editing is currently disabled on the English wikipedia due to the service being blocked as an open proxy.
Opera Mini
AuthorOpera
TypeWeb Browser
SystemMobile Phones

Smartphones

PDAs
SoftwareJava 2 Micro Edition
Accessoperamini.com
Websitehttp://www.opera.com
Description
Opera provides for Java-enabled mobile phones, online access to Wikipedia. The search mask is identical to Start Your browser visible (free, but some charge for use by mobile operators). Most mobile phones are compatible with the platform opera mini, so a full HTML browser. The web pages are on an external server pretreated and quantity of data is reduced. The browser can be either on the website or Opera http://mini.opera.com directly compatible WAP mobile phone.
Semapedia
 
AuthorAlexis Robin Rondeau Stan Michael Wiechers
TypeOnline Reader
SystemMobile Phones

Smartphones

PDAs
AccessSemapedia.org / fr.semapedia.org
Websitehttp://www.semapedia.org
Description
The project Semapedia binds the content of Wikipedia and projects sisters Wikimedia Foundation by affixing code DataMatrix to real physical objects. Such a code Datamatrix can be detected by a built-in photo, and can quickly call for a page without address entry. In this connection, special software is needed and can be downloaded from the web page Semacode. There are also other alternatives DataMatrix Reader for mobile phones.
Wapedia
AuthorFlorian Amrhein
TypeOnline Reader
SystemMobile Phones

Smartphones

PDAs
Accessfr.wapedia.mobi (WAP) pda.fr.wapedia.mobi (PDA)
Websitehttp://www.wapedia.org/fr
Description
Wapedia is available from Wikipedia on PDAs and mobile phones.

Features The pages are segmented into many smaller pieces to facilitate the display screens of mobile phones. The images are reduced until the resolution of the mobile device. Wapedia has its own search engine fast and independent servers encyclopedia. Support for WML and formats "XTML Mobile" with a modern self-identification of the most appropriate format for each device. Reviews Wapedia contains advertising on top of each page and the Google ad strip at the bottom.

The display resolution of small images to create errors.
Pediaphon
 
AuthorAndreas Bischoff
TypeOnline Reader
SystemMobile Phones

Smartphones PDAs

(WAP, MP3, iPod)
AccessPediaphon en
Websitehttp://www.fernuni-hagen.de
Description
An alternative presentation of the text, pediaphon produces speech of Wikipedia articles in MP3 file. The generation can be viewed online (if available bandwidth is cheap) or on the Web offline PC for use on an MP3 player, mobile phone (including as a Podcast) or Personal Assistants.
Compendium
 
Authorcoium.com
TypeOnline Reader
SystemApple iPhone ™ iPod touch ™
Accessiphone.coium.com
Websitehttp://coium.com
Description
Compendium is designed to optimize encyclopedias (including Wikipedia) and dictionaries in over ten languages, for iPhones of Apple ™ and iPod Touch ™. The iPhone and iPod touch allows the application to access, search and read Wikipedia articles, supported by "Live Search". Using the application is only available for Mac / iPod Touch, that is to say that it can serve as an iPhone software.

Off-line access edit

On the iPod touch and iPhone, it is possible to use Wikipedia locally (offline) through the program TransferTool. Prerequisite: a portable, more than 1GB of free space in the camera, good internet connection (initial upload) software Wiki2TouchWin available in the tutorial. Several Wikipedias are available in TomeRaider, see Wikipedia: TomeRaider database.

WikiTaxi
File:WikiTaxi screenshot Logo.jpg
AuthorRalf Junker
TypeOffline Reader
SystemWindows
SoftwareWikiTaxi
Websitewikitaxi.org
Description
Wikitaxi works with a current data dump of the original Wikipedia database that is updated from 2009, roughly twice a month. The current version is 1.0.6, and WikiTaxi dated 14 December 2008. In addition to Wikipedia, other Wikipedia's sister products (eg: the collection of quotations Wikiquote dictionary or Wiktionary) in all available languages with the help of WikiTaxi offline readable. The program is for home users freeware and therefore free. It can not show pictures and mathematical formulas and is no installation process after unpacking directly bootable.
Wiki2Touch
AuthorTom Haukap
TypeOffline Reader
SystemApple iPhone and iPod Touch
SoftwareWiki2Touch
Description
Wiki2Touch works with the original Wikipedia database. For these an index is created to be a server, which created the application that accesses the Safari. It takes about the Safari on the index. The interface is attractive, easy to operate. The Wikipedia dump has to be downloaded, edited with the indexer and pushed to the iPhone. It can be done on MacOS and Windows. Plus the installation of wiki2touch.app. The representation of the original Wikipedia article is in the form. Wiki2Touch is not sold through the Apple AppStore, but can be installed only after a previously performed jailbreak the iPhone or iPodTouch.
Collision Wikipedia
AuthorPatrick Collison
TypeOffline Reader
SystemApple iPhone and iPod Touch
SoftwareCollision wikipedia-iphone
Description
Collison Wikipedia Offline Reader works with its own database and a separate application.
Encyclopodia
 
AuthorRobert Bamler
TypeOffline Reader
SystemApple iPod
SoftwareEncyclopodia
Description
Encyclopodia is a program that allows you to the Wikipedia view text content iPod on one. The Reader software can be installed on both Windows as well on Mac and Linux. To download the e-book library, the British, German and Italian Wikipedia, in each case with data sets available from 2007.
Mokopedia
Authorjosch to # neo1973-germany@freenode.org
TypeOffline Reader
SystemFIC Neo1973, OpenMoko (optimized for embedded devices but basically every OS that runs perl and sqashfs)
SoftwareSquashFS, Lighttpd, Perl
Websitehttp://mokopedia.projects.openmoko.org
Description
Mokopedia The project has set itself the goal of making the German Wikipedia on the OpenMoko Neo1973 smartphone to read - through convert / compress the Wikipedia content. It uses no proprietary software, just open source, the project is not commercial! Most recently, the German Wikipedia was compressed to 1.3 GB: German (as of 2007/08)
TomeRaider
 
AuthorErik Zachte
TypeOffline Reader
SystemWindows CE, Pocket PC, Palm OS, EPOC, Symbian S60 v3 (beta), S40 (beta), UIQ (P900)
SoftwareTomeRaider
WebsiteZachte, infodisiac.com
Description
Since April 2003 Wikipedia is available for download in several languages in TomeRaider format. The full text can thus based on a Windows CE and Pocket PC, Palm OS or EPOC-based PDA to load first beta versions of the program, more recently, for Symbian S60 and S40 are available. For EPOC R5 (Psion devices), Sony Ericsson P800/P900 and Nokia Communicator, there is only TomeRaider2, not version 3 - according to eg resort to the Mobipocket version. Since the Pocket PC version of TeX in December 2003 will be converted to HTML. Since Unicode fonts are also supported, can represent the mathematical symbols and characters from other languages better. The current versions are from 04 November 2009 (text and images) and 4 November 2009 (text only) and contains over 900,000 or 1,000,000 articles and pictures in the version least an additional 499,000 images.

Be manually signed for Series 60 phones, the software needs.

Warning: The images are large files with others over 4 GB and can not be written onto a medium that is formatted with FAT32, as it usually is with SD cards is the case. Only the file system exFAT (only available in current Windows CE devices is available, not Windows Mobile [2]) can handle files larger than 4 GB. The capacity of the SD card does not matter.

Stand: November 4, 2009 (text only) Schaefer, as BitTorrent [3]

Stand: November 4, 2009 (text and images) Schaefer, as BitTorrent [4]


Release 5 June 2009 (text only) Siebner and magnet as Bittorrent [? Xt = urn: BTIH: OMB7OEOBI5ODUYX63LAJAENTZIIQFSQN]

Stand: 21 January 2009 (text only) Siebnen and as BitTorrent [5]

Release 21 January 2009 (with pictures; magnet approximately 3.79 GB (!)) Siebner, magnet as Bittorrent [? Xt = urn: BTIH: KUFXDRJFEX75T3BO5XLQJCX7RAFPRAIN] (Part 1) and [? Xt = urn: BTIH: MRWCV7FPGJIKO4G3TEULUZF6Q5DIFBG2] (Part 2)

Release 7 December 2008 (text only) Siebner

As of June 7, 2008 (text only) [6]

Booth: 7 June 2008 (with small pictures: 3,9 GB (!)) Schaefer, as Bittorrent [7]

Booth: 7 June 2008 (with large images, 4.6 GB (!)) Schaefer, as Bittorrent [8]
Smallwp
TypeOffline Reader
SystemLinux, other Unices.
Websitehttp://www.tfiu.de/smallwp
Description
A small Python program to be, puts a local Web server that delivered on the contents of the XML or HTML dumps. Images are not supported, the representation of XML dump has significant weaknesses. Database engine or external web servers are not necessary.
WikiPock
 
Authorwikipock.com
TypeOffline Reader
SystemAndroid, Blackberry, S60 3rd & 5th Edition [3], Windows Mobile
Websitehttp://www.wikipock.com
Description
Charges apply for mobile phones for offline viewing of Wikipedia. Thirteen language versions are available (as at August 2009) including the German. In pictures and formulas will be rendered completely waived.
WikiDroyd
File:WikiDroyd Android Screenshot-01.png
AuthorOneStepAhead AG
TypeOffline Reader
SystemAndroid
SoftwareWikiDroyd
Accesshttp://www.android.com/market/
Websitehttp://www.wikidroyd.com
Description
Free Offline Wikipedia Reader for Android phones. Currently the languages German, Nederlands, Italiano, Polish, Protugiesisch, Russian, Spanish and Turkish are offered. In the near future are also the languages English, French and Swedish are available (as at August 2009). In Article size reduced version (eg, "most viewed" according Wikistats) with pictures and expenditures are in the works. A download is only possible directly on the Android mobile phone via the Android Market.
  1. ^ "Sevenval: Wikipedia:". Retrieved 2008-02-25.