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BBC's h2g2 Goes Mobile - Again
zaktheduck writes "According to a recent press release, in anticipation of the new movie and the h2g2 website's sixth birthday, the BBC have relaunched the long-shelved h2g2 Mobile service. The new version of the popular community website allows access to the 7000+ and growing edited guide entries from PDAs, and smartphones. H2g2 had a WAP service back in 2001, aptly named "h2g2 on the Move", but was cancelled when the company faced financial trouble and was purchased by the BBC. Here's a copy of the old promotion page for the service."
The link you gave is most certainly NOT a text only portal to wikipedia.
The page you linked to is a wiki page edited to have no images inside.
Clicking any of the links takes you to the normal wiki page which may or may not include images.
Besides, the bloody big wikipedia logo image and other page images are still displayed.
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That's 7000 entries specially edited for reading on mobile devices. The complete guide has lots more.
7000 is the number of *edited* entries - there are many more unedited entries.
Having said that, I started out with h2g2, but much prefer Wikipedia, because collaborating on articles with h2g2 is (or at least was) difficult, while with wiki it is easy.
I stumbled apon this the other day: incase anyone is looking for the original BBC radio show.
The actual entry presented was "Harmless.". "Mostly " was added in the version Ford presented to Arthur, but I really don't recall that it actually made it into updated guide (that shrilly bird, ya know).
You know, CSS provides the ability to - using the same HTML - provide the fully designed page via a normal browser; and an image/tables/etc free version via a cut-down device.
I don't know if Wikipedia does this, but it is quite simple. Having a specific "text only" version is 1990s thinking. I think if someone sent a patch to Wikipedia for their CSS styles that did this they would happily adopt it.
Final Hitch
Radio 4 to broadcast final Hitchhiker's series.
The eight-part series, produced by Above the Title, will be broadcast from Tuesday 3rd May at 6.30pm.
Following on from last year's radio smash hit, Life, the Universe and Everything, the original cast - Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern, Stephen Moore, Mark Wing-Davey and Susan Sheridan - were again reunited to record the series alongside William Franklyn as the Voice of the Book.
Several actors connected with the Hitchhiker's Guide from its other incarnations, both on stage and television, take lead and supporting roles, including Bill Paterson, Sandra Dickinson, Jonathan Pryce, Rula Lenska and David Dixon. Supporting stars include Jane Horrocks, Jackie Mason, June Whitfield, Stephen Fry, Arthur Smith, Saeed Jaffrey, Miriam Margolyes and a surprise Hollywood star guest appearance
Artificial intelligence is the study of how to make real computers act like the ones in the movies.