Help:Mobile access

Although Wikipedia does not provide official access to wireless devices such as mobile telephones, it is possible to gain quick access to a text-only version of the HTML pages using the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).

The following WML page may be stored on a web server and, 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 which translates the article from HTML to WML.


<?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>

For simplicity, the page is available at the following location – this address is intended to be entered as a bookmark in a wireless device.

   http://www.deth.dsl.pipex.com/wiki.wml

Please note that this is not a search engine – the exact title of an article must be entered.

Entry is case sensitive, for example test rather than Test, WML rather than Wml.
Underscores must be entered between words, for example John_Titor rather than John Titor.

When Wikipedia is under heavy load it may be slow in returning pages, which may cause the wireless connection to time-out.