[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia for Cell Phones - see kwickee.com as well

Sat Jul 17 04:21:14 UTC 2004

While contributing content to the text articles would be tough on a
cell phone keypad, there are ways to make cell users useful
contributors - photos.

Dpreview just had an item about a 3 megapixel camera/phone, and many
new phones now have 1 megapixel cameras. It would be nice to make it
easy for folks to submit photos via mobile means for articles. This
might be part of a larger effort to make the whole photo submission
process more friendly.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0407/04071202samsungsph2300.asp

- User:Fuzheado

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:53:16 -0400, Alex Hottenstein
<ahottenstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> I had not seen the http://www.kwickee.com site, but it does prove that
> there is movement toward doing more and more things on cell phones. I
> do not know that it is actually what I am hoping that we can achieve
> however.
> 
> Wikipedia is perfect for this type of endeavor simply because all the
> information on it is free, and saved in a centralized, basic standard
> (I am assuming) all of which should be able to easily be pulled into
> whatever cell phone form we would need to use.
> 
> I am not looking for some complex site with user interaction, only one
> which allows the user to punch in a keyword, get search return
> results, and then see the article (obviously broken down screen by
> screen). This would not need to be complex, and there are few to no
> security issues that I can think of if we make this read-only.
> 
> Wikipedia can gain greatly from the concept that this would push.
> Publicly available information accessibly anywhere that a Internet
> enabled cell phone is accessible. Would it be 100% useful in the first
> phase? probably not. But, it could (and I believe) should be done.
> 
> Again, I do not know the protocol here, so who is in charge of
> determining actual product movements?
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:20:45 +0000, David Gerard
> <fun at thingy.apana.org.au> wrote:
> > On 07/16/04 14:06, Alex Hottenstein wrote:
> >
> > > Simply stated, by creating a cell phone web interface for the
> > > Wikipedia database, instant access to a dynamic encyclopedia could be
> > > given to all cell phone users worldwide. From what I can tell of the
> > > site, the infrastructure to undertake such a project is all there.
> > > I do not know if this is a project that you are already considering,
> > > but if not, I would be happy to lead this initiative, and am very
> > > interested in recruiting others who are interested in becoming
> > > involved in the project.
> >
> > You want http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_subdomain
> >
> > This is an idea that's in the air at the moment. Have you
> > seen this?
> >
> >     http://www.kwickee.com
> >
> > Have a look at this thing and read the FAQs and marketing
> > documents.
> >
> > It's a collaborative user-contributed articles thing for
> > mobile phones in the UK, done on a commercial basis.
> > "The first group to welcome new technologies and ideas are
> > predominantly the young. Since this group is also the largest
> > to own browser-enabled mobile phones, we anticipate the bulk
> > of the market for Kwickee Bitesize will be 16-30-year-olds.
> > It is also understood that the 30+ market use the Kwickee
> > website - taking full advantage of the special features and
> > subscription services."
> >
> > (i.e., it looks like the sort of wishful thinking dot-com
> > marketers come up with on a Tuesday afternoon down the pub.)
> >
> > I think they're onto a loser, because their intended market
> > uses Internet-capable phones. Which would therefore be quite
> > able to access any web page readable in Opera. Like OURS,
> > let's say.
> >
> > They plan a *significant* marketing push for this thing
> > (from http://www.kwickee.com/2a_marketing1.html):
> >
> > "How will Kwickee Bitesize be advertised?
> > A major marketing programme is planned for the first year of
> > launch. This will include a major SMS campaign, advertising
> > in magazines, daily newspapers, cinemas and over the Internet.
> > The marketing campaign has been awarded to a UK top three
> > Advertising & Data Marketing Agency."
> > "How big is the UK market for Kwickee Bitesize?"
> > "There are approximately 30 million people with mobile handsets
> > capable of receiving a Bitesize. Alternatively, anyone with an
> > Internet connection can receive a Kwickee Bitesize."
> >
> > Dot-com taught us that trying to *start* an idea as a business
> > that your competitor could start in their garage is unlikely
> > to work.
> >
> > We should be able to ride this big time. How does Wikipedia
> > look on browser-capable mobile phones? Do we have any automatic
> > function to pull the intro from all articles (that have an
> > intro) and just send that on request?
> >
> > (This'll make news style for article intros a better idea ...)
> >
> > - David.
> >
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