Snaevar and Wikidataians,

Thanks for this information. I didn't know about the mobile version of Wikipedia.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my Palm OS 4.0 browser on my handheld phone.

I get the error message "WML content contains invalid syntax".

I wonder how many internet phone browsers the mobile version of Wikipedia does and doesn't work on.

Since WikiData is designed to interoperate with MediaWiki and MobileFrontend, as well as the mobile version of Wikipedia (I assume), and possibly universally on all browsers (might be the hope), I wonder if there are any "backend" WikiData data base changes that would be part of the solution to reaching all obscure browsers, - in the emerging world, for example.

What would be the email list in which I would explore accessibility of MediaWiki and MobileFrontend, as well as the mobile version of Wikipedia, as well as other mobile wikis, on all obscure browsers (including my Palm OS 4), and for all 3000-8000 languages and in around ~200 countries?

At World University and School's Subject Template, we've listed a number of different 'Wikis for Courses' - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/SUBJECT_TEMPLATE#Wiki_Software_for_Cou... for people to teach and learn with. These two seem to work on my Palm OS 4.0 -

Wet Paint - http://wikisineducation.wetpaint.com/

Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/

- in contrast to the mobile version of Wikipedia.

Because of MediaWiki's language support of < 280 languages (and potentially all languages, including invented ones, dead ones, as well mathematical and chemical symbols, etc.), I assume building out the mobile version of Wikipedia to obscure browsers is a most sensible approach. Is this the case? If so, how would I add to the mobile version of Wikipedia's code such that I no longer get the error message "WML content contains invalid syntax" on my Palm OS 4.0 ?

Thanks, Scott

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM, Snaevar snaevar-wiki@gmx.com wrote:

Have you tried the mobile version of Wikipedia (for example en.m.wikipedia.org) ?

This is probably a bit out of scope for Wikidata, becouse the issue of how mobile versions of wikis work with older browsers is an wider issue that also affects MediaWiki and MobileFrontend.

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