[WikiEN-l] Indywiki, a visual browser for Wikipedia

[Emily Monroe]

> I don't get why there is any need for a dedicated Wikipedia browser.

I agree. For one thing, there's the issue of making it accessible to  
Mac, Windows, and Linux.

But yeah, it's good for inspiration.

Emily
On Aug 16, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:09 AM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> It shows the first coupla paragraphs of an article, with pictures.
>
> Why only the "first coupla"?
>
> I do like:
> - the separation of links out on the right hand side (our "don't
> repeat links" policy is pretty annoying at times)
> - the static contents on the left (our placement of the contents after
> the first section causes havoc with layout, and is inconvenient to
> use)
>
> I don't get why there is any need for a dedicated Wikipedia browser.
> All we need is better skins, or possibly a better (web-side)
> interface. There have been a couple of attempts at dedicated browsers,
> but do any of them do anything that the right AJAX-y web client
> couldn't?
>
> Steve
>
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