When someone makes a GUI frontend to Wikipedia, those features will become more sophisticated (wysiwyg).
Blasphemy! GUI? WYSIWYG? Now that would be unwiki.
Seriously; one of the reasons why we are successful is because there is a bit of a learning curve to being a contributor (small, but it is there). I hate to say it, but this small learning curve acts as a kind of filter against those that have nothing but incoherent and random nonsense to "contribute".
If the basic concept ain't broke, why fix it? Wiki is dead easy to learn anyway. But it does require some cognitive faculty and mental discipline to get the hang of.
While I'm receptive to the "pons asinorum" argument, I rather like the idea of a GUI wiki interface someday. That's why I want to get the markup language adequately specified and unambiguous, and why I entered a feature request for myself to design a stable API for fetching and editing pages. We'll just make sure that setting up the GUI application requires them to enter a URL or something. :-)
On 10-08-2002, lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote thusly :
When someone makes a GUI frontend to Wikipedia, those features will become more sophisticated (wysiwyg).
Blasphemy! GUI? WYSIWYG? Now that would be unwiki. Seriously; one of the reasons why we are successful is because there is a bit of a learning curve to being a contributor (small, but it is there). I hate to say it, but this small learning curve acts as a kind of filter against those that have nothing but incoherent and random nonsense to "contribute". If the basic concept ain't broke, why fix it? Wiki is dead easy to learn anyway. But it does require some cognitive faculty and mental discipline to get the hang of.
While I'm receptive to the "pons asinorum" argument, I rather like the idea of a GUI wiki interface someday. That's why I want to get the markup language adequately specified and unambiguous, and why I entered a feature request for myself to design a stable API for fetching and editing pages. We'll just make sure that setting up the GUI application requires them to enter a URL or something. :-)
Whatever has happened to the Abiword's Wikipedia plugin ?
I have no opportunity to check it up right now ?
"Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz" wrote:
Whatever has happened to the Abiword's Wikipedia plugin ?
I have no opportunity to check it up right now ?
Apparently it is still viable. Links to it (and Wikipedia) are available at: http://www.abisource.com/download/plugins.phtml
At 06:18 PM 8/11/02 -0700, mirwin wrote:
"Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz" wrote:
Whatever has happened to the Abiword's Wikipedia plugin ?
I have no opportunity to check it up right now ?
Apparently it is still viable. Links to it (and Wikipedia) are available at: http://www.abisource.com/download/plugins.phtml
From there:
Wikipedia Plugin This plugin will give you integrated access to Wikipedia, an incredible,
free encyclopedia.
Downloads: Linux Intel RPM. Please select a mirror: USA1 - USA2 - EU
The mirror links show the version as xxxx1.0.2.1.i386.rpm so apparently it is only available on linux.
Excellent PR! :)
Well the windows wikipedia plugin is in the utilities bundle at the top of that page but when you select in in abiword (under tools) it connects to this:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.phtml?search=%3E
Which is no good.
(I'm not at all sure how it should work but that's what happens now)
Fred Bauder
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