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(a)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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