While they strip out links/citations, they do
preserve text formatting
(italics & bold).
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Bernd Sitzmann <bernd(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Nice find. I also like being able to swipe those
cards left/right
between different information sources. Looks like depending on the selected
words it's: Dictionary, Wikipedia, Translation
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Dmitry Brant <dbrant(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> I was using the Kindle app on the plane today, and I noticed a few
> interesting things, including this:
>
> device-2015-06-04-225651.png
>
<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/file/d/0BzcksMsMNpY1SzA3bHY4WF9hM1U/edit?usp=drive_web>
>
> When highlighting a word or phrase, the user is presented with a
> definition of the word from Wikipedia. The content is presented in a native
> component, with only the first section of text shown (all links,
> references, infoboxes, etc. are stripped out). (I wonder what API they're
> using?)
>
> It looks very similar to the link preview prototypes we've been
> developing in our apps, and it's very telling that the Kindle app has such
> a feature, since it helps emphasize the usefulness of this feature in any
> kind of "reader" app. Perhaps, in addition to link previews, we may also
> want to think about allowing users to highlight words and show definitions
> (from Wiktionary?), pronunciations, translations, etc...
>
>
> p.s. I was able to get the Kindle app to crash by clicking a link
> inside one of the Wikipedia "previews" that wasn't stripped out
correctly.
> In other words, no app is safe from the edge cases of wikitext!
>
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