Arne Klempert wrote:
On Friday, July 16, 2004 4:06 PM Alex Hottenstein ahottenstein@gmail.com wrote:
I do not know if this is a project that you are already considering, but if not, I would be happy to lead this initiative, and am very interested in recruiting others who are interested in becoming involved in the project.
I would like to hear the ideas or suggestions of all, I already have constructed ideas for Phase 1 and 2 of the project, and would be more then happy to share them if there is any further interest.
There is already a page on meta about a mobile version of Wikipedia. This might be a good place to post your ideas:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_subdomain
--Arne (akl)
<>One critical difference for WAP phone browsing is that many phones have extremely small page size limits; a maximum of 1397 bytes.of compressed content per page in order to work with currently fielded devices. So Wikipedia pages will need to be chopped up into right-size chunks, and an effective navigation interface provided to move through these. Fortunately we already have hierarchical subheadings and paragraph breaks, so these can be used to "paginate" the WAP data cleanly, rather than breaking it on arbitary boundaries.
-- Neil