Hi, I think it might be interesting to have an integration with wikipedia where words found on wiki pages could be highlighted and when the mouse is moved over them, a popup box could open and display the wikipedia information. This integration is done in Trillian IRC and it's quite nice (see attached screenshot). I'm not sure how useful it is though but it's cool nonetheless and shows an example of web service integration (in the loose sense). In order to be performant it would have to be done in a separate thread though and the underlining should probably be done independently of the page's rendering (using javascript). Maybe an idea for a xwiki hackathon? -Vincent
On 11/05/05, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
In order to be performant it would have to be done in a separate thread though and the underlining should probably be done independently of the page's rendering (using javascript).
Some AJAX would be in order I guess... -- Guillaume Laforge http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/?catid=2
Yes.. This is a cool idea.. A user already asked me about this (but not with Wikipedia as a backend but with an external thesaurus).. This think can be generalized.. Basically you need to do it in two parts: 1/ Backends XWiki can query multiple databases to get the list of words/pages matches and stores them locally trying to upgrade them on a regular basis 2/ Front-end When a word is matched from one of the external database, a link or a popup can be shown with AJAX behaviour to get the definition.. This is a mix of the LocalNames feature (which is discussed in the wiki world) and the Trillian feature.. Clearly something for a XWiki hackathon.. About the wiki hackathon.. Here is some challenges we got from the closed source world: Jot: http://blog.jot.com/archives/2005/05/09/jotspot-inagural-hackathon/ Atlassian: http://blogs.atlassian.com/rebelutionary/archives/000495.html I especially like the real-time editing feature the jot guys did and the graphviz integration done by Atlassian.. We need to organize our own worldwide distributed XWiki hackathon ! Ludovic Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi,
I think it might be interesting to have an integration with wikipedia where words found on wiki pages could be highlighted and when the mouse is moved over them, a popup box could open and display the wikipedia information.
This integration is done in Trillian IRC and it's quite nice (see attached screenshot). I'm not sure how useful it is though but it's cool nonetheless and shows an example of web service integration (in the loose sense).
In order to be performant it would have to be done in a separate thread though and the underlining should probably be done independently of the page's rendering (using javascript).
Maybe an idea for a xwiki hackathon?
-Vincent
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