[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia widget for new Macintosh OS release

Mon May 9 12:06:11 UTC 2005

Speaking of widgets, has anybody tried coding a Wikipedia panel for
the equivalent Deskbar thing in the upcoming release of Windows
Longhorn? I doubt Microsoft would be so happy to promote it on their
sites though, considering the renewed competition from Encarta.

~Mark

On 5/8/05, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:
> I see that someone has already written a Wikipedia widget for the
> dashboard on the new OS X 10.4 ("Tiger") release for the Macintosh:
> 
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/wikipedia.html
> 
> In a related development, someone else has written "WikityWidget," a
> widget that lets Mac users create their own personal wiki that runs
> locally on their computer:
> 
> http://inkspotting.com/wikity/
> 
> Unfortunately, the WikityWidget only supports the CamelCase link
> style, and I think Wikipedia's syntax is much more powerful and
> flexible.
> 
> It would be great if someone could develop a WikityWidget-like tool
> that supports the Wikipedia syntax. I've been using a local
> installation of MediaWiki on my laptop to keep various notes for my
> personal use, but it would be easier to have the same functionality
> available on my dashboard. Also, it would help to further popularize
> the Wikipedia syntax, which I'd like to see become the basis for a
> standard wiki syntax even outside of MediaWiki.
> 
> --Sheldon Rampton
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