[Wikireader] Welcome new members Tabitha Roder and H å kon Lie; Wiki-to-html conversion and compres sion

Håkon Wium Lie howcome at opera.com
Wed Feb 11 23:42:03 EST 2009


Also sprach Samuel Klein:

 > Welcome to our newest list members: Tabitha Roder and Håkon Lie.
 > Tabitha has spent a goodly amount of time lately with Mel (thanks for
 > returning her in one piece :), and Håkon is working on making
 > dead-tree Wikipedia dead sexy and tackling many of the same interface
 > and selection problems.  I'll let them both say more about their
 > wikireader interests.

Indeed, printing is an interest of mine. Not a whole lot will be
printed in the future, but what is printed will come off the web, and
it will be formatted automatically. In order for the output to look
somewhat decent, we need to ensure that the underlying markup is
sufficiently rich. With my www.princexml.com hat on, I've been doing
some encouraging experiments on wikipedia content:

  http://www.princexml.com/samples/#wiki

I also have another hat, namely that of www.opera.com. At Opera we
want to ensure that web content is accessible on all sorts of devices,
connecting to the web in all sorts of ways. Sometimes the user's
screen will be different from a standard PC screen (which is the case
for OLPC) and reformatting may be beneficial. For this to be graceful,
we need to ensure that the markup is sufficiently rich. 

So, I'm interested in improving the templates of Wikipedie to ensure
that the markup is compact, rich and reusable. My short-term goal on
this front is to manually re-encode a wikipedia article to make it
more compact, print-friendly, and mobile-friendly. 

I'm also very interested in video for the web:

  http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/video/

And, in the OLPC

  http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/olpc

Cheers,

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
howcome at opera.com                  http://people.opera.com/howcome


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