On Sun, Nov 27, 2005 at 01:41:26AM +0100, Federico Paparoni wrote:
i'm the administrator of a Java italian website,
javastaff.com. We are
a group of developers and we would like to create a J2ME client for
Wikipedia, that would be an interesting software for a cellular phone.
Of course we will do it only to donate a good software to the
users.
See:
http://www.en.wapedia.org
I asked the author of that site (Florian Amrhein) if he wanted to
release his parser tool as free software, but he wanted to clean it
up first.
An interesting quote from our discussion several months ago:
"The problem is, that in mediawiki there is no separation between
layout and content. Everywhere tables are used to make layout.
As long this is not repaired - I think this is a major error, because
CMS Systems should provide such a separation and stand on it - I can
not display tables."
So there are some major challenges to viewing Wikipedia articles in
other ways. Using a tableless infobox rendering system (with stylesheet
support) would be a good start.
Jama Poulsen
http://wikicompany.org
http://debianlinux.net