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

2009-08-18 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Emily Monroebluecalioc...@me.com wrote: 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. Yeah, so it's

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

2009-08-17 Thread David Gerard
2009/8/17 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: 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

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

2009-08-17 Thread 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,

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

2009-08-16 Thread David Gerard
http://linuxpoison.blogspot.com/2009/08/visual-browser-for-wikipedia-indywiki.html It's written in Python, works well on Linux. There's a Windows version I haven't tried. It shows the first coupla paragraphs of an article, with pictures. Don't look up goatse. - d.

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

2009-08-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 8:09 AM, David Gerarddger...@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