+mobile-l
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Adam Baso <abaso(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
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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