micropersuasion.com - 12/15/2008
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Although home grown alternatives have been around for awhile now, Wikipedia recently launched its own official mobile site at http://mobile.wikipedia.org/. The site is very basic, which is exactly what mobile users will want it to be. It's also available in several languages . There's also a ...
iwf.org.uk - 12/9/2008
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iwf.org.uk —
IWF Logo A Wikipedia webpage was reported through
the IWF's online reporting mechanism on 4 December 2008.
As with all potentially illegal online child sexual abuse reports we receive, the image was assessed according to current UK legislation and in ...
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IWF statement regarding Wikipedia webpage
comoki.com - 12/15/2008
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comoki.com —
Wikipedia Mobile Version 1.0 Read and browse Wikipedia
easily on your iPhone or iPod Touch. With perfectly
formatted articles, outstanding features and excellent usability, Wikipedia Mobile makes it easy to search and read Wikipedia anywhere, in any ...
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Wikipedia Mobile - Comoki Software
guardian.co.uk - 12/10/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
Britain's internet censor has backtracked on its decision
to ban a Wikipedia page for containing a "potentially
illegal" image of a naked child. Over the weekend it emerged that the Internet Watch Foundation, which operates a blacklist to screen out ...
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British censor reverses Wikipedia ban |
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Wikipedia Finally Releases Official Mobile Site
ReadWriteWeb —
... and has been stripped of all images, which means it works well on a slow connection, but also makes for a somewhat disappointing experience compared to other mobile versions like the Wikipanion iPhone app (iTunes link).
The mobile site also breaks the content of the articles down into separate chunks and puts them onto different pages. This, too, makes browsing faster, but also makes it harder to find information on the service.
Spoken Wikipedia?
Steve Rubel also found a link to a feature called the "Spoken Wikipedia" in the ...
Wikipedia goes mobile
Unwired View —
... You may have thought that http://wapedia.mobi/en/ was Wikipedia’s true and final mobile web site, but you’re quite wrong. Because just recently, the folks behind this human-powered, free encyclopedia have announced their official mobile site, which can be found on http://mobile.wikipedia.org/. ...
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