Mobile Gateway

Project Details
An official effort for a forward-looking mobile solution has begun at Wikimedia Foundation. Hampton Catlin has been brought on board to build a mobile formatting platform focusing on delivering (initially) Wikipedia articles to mobile devices. This is definitely an open source effort and we are looking for people who are familiar with Objective-C, Java, and Ruby.

Goals

 * Get mobile service up and running wikimedia-mobile initially focusing on new devices supporting WebKit - _in progress_
 * Build an official iPhone Wikipedia application wikipedia-iphone - _in progress_
 * Build an official Android application wikipedia-android - _pending_
 * Extend wikipedia-mobile to format for new cutting edge devices (BlackBerry Storm, Symbian, Windows Mobile)
 * Possibly add WAP services

URL Scheme
The url scheme of "m.en.wikipedia.org" or "m.es.wikipedia.org" has been settled on. The longterm goal of the project is to have "en.wikipedia.org" do switching based on User-Agent, however at this time it is impossible due to caching complexities.

Getting Involved

 * The IRC room #wikimedia-mobile on freenode.net
 * Email hcatlin@wikimedia.org
 * Get the repos for wikimedia-mobile and wikipedia-iphone, then just start hacking!


 * See Wikipedia iPhone app for the iPhone app, first released August 2009.