Max Semenik wrote:
I would like to thank everyone who participated in this
effort!
This wasn't an easy decision, however the share of WAP has fallen
tremendously and we can find better use for engineering resources we
would have needed to maintain WAP support functional.
RIP, WAP.
It seems
http://en.wap.wikipedia.org/ now redirects to
en.m.wikipedia.org
(nice!), but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Mobile_access has become
kind of Orwellian (boo). At least there's the page history. :-)
It probably bears repeating that MediaWiki has a robust Web API, which
MobileFrontend and sibling extensions, contribute to. The API provides
real-time access to a trove of metadata regarding users, articles, edits,
etc. in addition to providing the wikitext markup, parsed HTML, and even
text extracts from pages. If anyone is interested in re-using the content
of a MediaWiki wiki to set up a WAP-like service or something more
interesting, it shouldn't be too difficult. More info:
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
*
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php
This somewhat softens the blow of the various WAP services going away.
MZMcBride