I have tried Malayalam Wikipedia on my android 2.1 mobile. Rendering is very poor :( . Instead of letters it just shows the squares. But on Opera browser you can see the letters (except unicode 5.1 chillu lettes (atomic chillu letters)) by doing the hack mentioned on this <a href="http://anoopnarayanan.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/malayalam-on-android-mobiles/">blog post</a> . AFAIK only opera browser has the ability to render Indic scripts on mobiles.<br>
<br><br>Never tried to edit Malayalam wikipedia on mobiles!<br><br><br>Thanks<br>Anoop<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:49 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com">sundarbecse@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Ramesh,</div><div><br></div><div>Could you try <a href="http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/" target="_blank">http://ml.m.wikipedia.org/</a> from your phone? (Of course, it'll still need the fonts.)</div><div>To my knowledge, Malayalam Wikipedia is the only Indian Wikipedia to have a mobile interface (I could be wrong).</div>
<div>For Tamil Wikipedia, only the final steps are pending.</div><div><br></div><div>- Sundar<br> </div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>
- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px"><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">
<br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Ramesh N G <<a href="mailto:rameshng@gmail.com" target="_blank">rameshng@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org" target="_blank">wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Tue, October 26, 2010 6:30:59 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing & reading of Wikipedia<br></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Data charges definitely is coming down and will be coming down more with the 3G war in India. <br><br>The support for other languages and unicode should be improved in the mobiles. <br><br>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. <br>
<br>regards<br>Ramesh ng<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:rsrikanth05@gmail.com" target="_blank">rsrikanth05@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">I agree with Srikanth on this issue.<br>I have been using Wikipedia on my phone for over a year and a half, and have even edited several articles from my phone.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On 26 October 2010 11:30, Srikanth Lakshmanan <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:srik.lak@gmail.com" target="_blank">srik.lak@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:gautam@prathambooks.org" target="_blank">gautam@prathambooks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs,<br>
don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for<br>
free?<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>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.</div>
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