Wikipedia Mobile comes out of beta

Wikipedia Mobile has finally made its way out of beta after being moved over to, in the words of the Wiki tech blog, a “new fast and sexy server”.

Currently, the mobile-optimised site supports the iPhone, Android phones like the Google G1 and HTC Magic and the Palm Pre, as well as the US e-reader Kindle. It is also ready to go in English and German, with more languages being translated for future release.

Now if you try to access Wikipedia from any of the supported devices, you will be automatically redirected to Wikipedia Mobile, with the option to revert back to main Wikipedia at the click of a button.

Wikipedia says the idea is to start out simple with limited support to test the usability and stabilitity, and grow slowly. With 10,000,000 pages served during the beta, here’s hoping the full version will run without hiccups.

Wikipedia has said that its mobile service has always been planned for “fully featured smartphones”, so expect more phones to be added to the compatibility list as it grows.

Keep it locked to Stuff.tv for the latest, and if you’ve used Wikipedia Mobile be sure to let us know what you think in the comments below.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website.  Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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