On 8/15/06, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I just got a sidekick 3 phone, which has a nice big screen. Wikipedia does not look good on it. One problem is that I have to scroll through far too much auxiliary stuff before I can see the articles.
I have no idea what the answer to this is, but it would be cool if it worked better. :)
Hmm, try installing Opera on your phone. It actually does an excellent job at displaying Wikipedia pages. You do have to scroll past infoboxes and images, but I can't think of anywhere else it could put them, so fair's fair. (You can test this with recent versions of desktop Opera: it has a "small screen" mode that emulates its mobile version's rendering.)
Maybe enwiki should class infoboxes and hide them by default in its handheld stylesheet, hmm.