[Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia

[Ramesh N G]

Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone?

I have tried this also. It has the similar issue of the fonts. The chillus
of malayalam is another issue while displaying.
I could read it, but as far as the usability, it is of no use.

regards



On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse at yahoo.com>wrote:

>   Ramesh,
>
> Could you try http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/ from your phone? (Of course,
> it'll still need the fonts.)
> To my knowledge, Malayalam Wikipedia is the only Indian Wikipedia to have a
> mobile interface (I could be wrong).
> For Tamil Wikipedia, only the final steps are pending.
>
> - Sundar
>
> "That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium
> for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."
> - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture
>
>
> *From:* Ramesh N G <rameshng at gmail.com>
> *To:* wikimediaindia-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> *Sent:* Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia
>
> Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with
> the 3G war in India.
>
> The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the
> mobiles.
>
> I have tried ml wikipedia in the Nokia E series with MiniOpera browser. It
> was really a bad experience for me. The fonts are not properly displaying.
> Hope to see more improvements especially on the unicode support and fonts in
> the mobile browsers.
>
> regards
> Ramesh ng
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikanth05 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with Srikanth on this issue.
>> I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and
>> have even edited several articles from my phone.
>>
>>   On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>   On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John <gautam at prathambooks.org>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,
>>>> don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for
>>>> free?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely
>>> advertising but actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and
>>> data charges apply for images  on the article from commons). I am not very
>>> sure on this, anyone who uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with
>>> Arjuna and feel data charges have come down significantly over a period of
>>> time now though may still not be affordable to a common man on the street
>>> when compared to the dead low voice tariff. More and more alternate ways of
>>> consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to be developed. I particularly find
>>> the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile useful while exploring unknown
>>> territories.
>>>
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