Okay to move this to mobile-l?
On Friday, June 5, 2015, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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