Wapedia Explained

Wapedia was a mobile version of Wikipedia. It was started in August 2004 by Florian Amrhein and shut down on 4 November 2013.[1] It was operated by Taptu.[2]

Wapedia was originally a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) site for use on mobile phones of the very early 2000s. The URL for Wapedia was http://wapedia.mobi/ (which was one of the early examples of a .mobi website).[3] Over time, HTML interfaces were added, with the site generating pages optimised for a variety of mobile devices such as smart phones, Personal digital assistants (PDAs), and tablets. In 2009 dedicated applications for iPhone,[4] Android and WebOS were launched.

Wapedia served articles using a combination of a proxy-like behavior and a local article database. It did not offer the ability to edit pages. Wapedia injected adverts into the Wikipedia articles, either in the HTML or in the applications.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wapedia . goodbye.wapedia.mobi . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131105105539/http://goodbye.wapedia.mobi/wapedia.html . 5 November 2013 . dead.
  2. Web site: About Wapedia . Wapedia . 2009-05-12.
  3. Web site: Organizations Launch .mobi Web Sites . 3 January 2007 . DomainNameWire.com . 2007-10-12.
  4. Web site: Wapedia . appSafari.com iPhone application gallery . 2007-10-12.

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