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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
