[telecom] Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen

Feb 11, 2014 1 Replies

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Monty Solomon 12 years ago

Wikipedia vs. the Small Screen

By NOAM COHEN FEB. 9, 2014

The Internet behemoths Google and Facebook have proved they can still attract users and advertisers as their traffic shifts from desktops to mobile devices.

But at Wikipedia, the giant online encyclopedia, the transition to a mobile world raises a different existential question: Will people continue to create articles and edit its nine million existing ones on the small screen of a smartphone or tablet?

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David Clayton 12 years ago

They may not have to, the Wikipedia site itself could be changed to redirect mobile devices to a specific mobile web site set up to auto-format the articles for the smaller screens.

It may not be able to perfectly reformat every single article, but I'd bet that the vast majority would be done ok and be just as usable for mobile devices.

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