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Older Oct 21, 2009 issue 18 (Avoid the Android bookmark trick) reported by nicolas.raoul - Using this in an Android application: http://www.techjini.com/blog/2009/01/10/android-tip-1-contentprovider-accessing-local-file-system-from-webview-showing-image-in-webview-using-content/ Using this in an Android application: http://www.techjini.com/blog/2009/01/10/android-tip-1-contentprovider-accessing-local-file-system-from-webview-showing-image-in-webview-using-content/ Sep 24, 2009 Kindle Wiki page edited by danfriedman - Revision r17 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Revision r17 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Sep 23, 2009 Kindle Wiki page edited by danfriedman - Revision r16 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Revision r16 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Sep 23, 2009 Kindle Wiki page edited by nicolas.raoul - Revision r15 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Revision r15 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Sep 22, 2009 Kindle Wiki page edited by danfriedman - Revision r14 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Revision r14 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Sep 19, 2009 Kindle Wiki page edited by nicolas.raoul - Revision r13 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Revision r13 Edited wiki page through web user interface. Sep 19, 2009 Kindle Wiki page added by nicolas.raoul - Revision r12 Created wiki page through web user interface. Revision r12 Created wiki page through web user interface. Aug 30, 2009 issue 12 (external link format not parsed) commented on by nicolas.raoul - Example of redirect that is converted to plain text with no link: Madeira island at http://wikitravel.org/en/Europe#Other_territories Example of redirect that is converted to plain text with no link: Madeira island at http://wikitravel.org/en/Europe#Other_territories Aug 30, 2009 issue 17 (Country links missing on the Europe central page) changed by nicolas.raoul - Thanks for your report! Indeed, it is a big problem, it needs to be fixed for next release. Europe article: - The countries you mention are missing - The country table in the next paragraph does not appear at all. Central Europe article: - All countries missing Status: Accepted Owner: nicolas.raoul Labels: Priority-Critical −Priority-Medium Thanks for your report! Indeed, it is a big problem, it needs to be fixed for next release. Europe article: - The countries you mention are missing - The country table in the next paragraph does not appear at all. Central Europe article: - All countries missing Status: Accepted Owner: nicolas.raoul Labels: Priority-Critical −Priority-Medium Aug 30, 2009 issue 17 (Country links missing on the Europe central page) reported by sea...@sealabs.net - There are links missing under the "Regions" paragraph of the Europe's central page. * France and the Benelux * Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus * Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus * Scandinavia There are links missing under the "Regions" paragraph of the Europe's central page. * France and the Benelux * Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus * Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus * Scandinavia Aug 30, 2009 issue 16 (Download the files within the application) reported by nicolas.raoul - Downloading, unzipping and copying the files is not very friendly for mobile users. It would be better if the application could do the following at first run: - Ask the user whether it is OK to use a lot of bandwidth now (suggesting Wireless LAN) - Download the archive to the SD card - Uncompress the archive onto the SD card - Remove the archive Downloading, unzipping and copying the files is not very friendly for mobile users. It would be better if the application could do the following at first run: - Ask the user whether it is OK to use a lot of bandwidth now (suggesting Wireless LAN) - Download the archive to the SD card - Uncompress the archive onto the SD card - Remove the archive Aug 30, 2009 issue 15 (Market presence) reported by nicolas.raoul - OxygenGuide should be available as an application in the Market. it would be an extra-thin activity open the Browser at a specific location (for instance /sdcard/oxygenguide). If the directory is not present, it would explain to the user how to download, uncompress and copy the files to the SD card. OxygenGuide should be available as an application in the Market. it would be an extra-thin activity open the Browser at a specific location (for instance /sdcard/oxygenguide). If the directory is not present, it would explain to the user how to download, uncompress and copy the files to the SD card. Aug 29, 2009 issue 14 (Search page) reported by nicolas.raoul - Generate a huge page that would contain links to all pages. This page would be useful for users to look for a particular destination without having to find it via links. Generate a huge page that would contain links to all pages. This page would be useful for users to look for a particular destination without having to find it via links. Aug 29, 2009 issue 12 (external link format not parsed) Owner changed by nicolas.raoul - This one looks fine, thanks :-) Owner: nicolas.raoul This one looks fine, thanks :-) Owner: nicolas.raoul Aug 29, 2009 issue 13 (information missed in "Britain and Irish Islands") reported by nicolas.raoul - In "Britain_and_Ireland" (formerly Britain and Irish Islands), the sections Countries and Other Destinations appear empty. In "Britain_and_Ireland" (formerly Britain and Irish Islands), the sections Countries and Other Destinations appear empty. Aug 29, 2009 issue 11 (#redirect pages are not redirected) commented on by luis.villa - They are rendered, at least in some cases- I found one yesterday- West England, which redirects to West Country. But yeah, all it is is a simple link. They are rendered, at least in some cases- I found one yesterday- West England, which redirects to West Country. But yeah, all it is is a simple link. Aug 29, 2009 issue 12 (external link format not parsed) commented on by luis.villa - ↗ (unicode 8599)? Other unicode arrows here: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html ↗ (unicode 8599)? Other unicode arrows here: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/arrows.html Aug 29, 2009 issue 11 (#redirect pages are not redirected) changed by nicolas.raoul - Status: Accepted Owner: nicolas.raoul Status: Accepted Owner: nicolas.raoul Aug 29, 2009 issue 12 (external link format not parsed) Status changed by nicolas.raoul - I think we should render external links as actually clickable links, but render them a bit differently so that people understand it is remote (which may mean unreachable or expensive). This is not difficult to implement, but we just need to decide how to show it. A different color may not be visible by some visually impaired people. An arrow image like Wikipedia does is graphically good, but for performance reasons I would rather use characters than images. Example: NYATT [>] arranges private transport services In this example, the > character should be replaced with another character that looks like an outgoing arrow, as seen on the NYC article or any other article. Or something with the same semantic. Do you know such a character? Status: Accepted I think we should render external links as actually clickable links, but render them a bit differently so that people understand it is remote (which may mean unreachable or expensive). This is not difficult to implement, but we just need to decide how to show it. A different color may not be visible by some visually impaired people. An arrow image like Wikipedia does is graphically good, but for performance reasons I would rather use characters than images. Example: NYATT [>] arranges private transport services In this example, the > character should be replaced with another character that looks like an outgoing arrow, as seen on the NYC article or any other article. Or something with the same semantic. Do you know such a character? Status: Accepted Aug 29, 2009 issue 11 (#redirect pages are not redirected) Labels changed by nicolas.raoul - Hmm, this will not be easy to fix. So far we don't scrape the redirect pages, because there are so many of them. I think that right now, links to redirect pages are not rendered as link at all, am I wrong? Obviously, we should render them as direct links t the final target. Labels: Priority-Low −Priority-Medium Hmm, this will not be easy to fix. So far we don't scrape the redirect pages, because there are so many of them. I think that right now, links to redirect pages are not rendered as link at all, am I wrong? Obviously, we should render them as direct links t the final target. Labels: Priority-Low −Priority-Medium Aug 29, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) commented on by nicolas.raoul - Ah, I see what you mean, we could do this indeed, good idea. Sorry, which other issue are you referring to? Ah, I see what you mean, we could do this indeed, good idea. Sorry, which other issue are you referring to? Aug 29, 2009 issue 12 (external link format not parsed) reported by luis.villa - External links show up as [foo http://foo.com] in the main text. It would be nice if they just showed up as foo (no link) since, again, we are presumably offline when reading it, so the external link doesn't help much. Alternately it could be converted into a link, perhaps with an external link icon to indicate that it might not work? It would be sweet if external links to wikipedia were followed, though- I have often wanted the first page of a wikipedia trail to give me more background on history, etc. External links show up as [foo http://foo.com] in the main text. It would be nice if they just showed up as foo (no link) since, again, we are presumably offline when reading it, so the external link doesn't help much. Alternately it could be converted into a link, perhaps with an external link icon to indicate that it might not work? It would be sweet if external links to wikipedia were followed, though- I have often wanted the first page of a wikipedia trail to give me more background on history, etc. Aug 29, 2009 issue 11 (#redirect pages are not redirected) reported by luis.villa - This is a very minor issue, but would probably also be easy to fix in the generator. Pages that are a #redirect currently show the #redirect and the page it will be redirected to. It would be nice to just skip that all together and eliminate the middleman, or otherwise use a redirect header like the real pages do. This is a very minor issue, but would probably also be easy to fix in the generator. Pages that are a #redirect currently show the #redirect and the page it will be redirected to. It would be nice to just skip that all together and eliminate the middleman, or otherwise use a redirect header like the real pages do. Aug 29, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) commented on by luis.villa - Ah! I live in New York, so lots of subway time too, but I tend to use old-fashioned books in it ;) When I said '404 page' I guess I meant not a true 404 page, but the page shown when no page has been created yet. I think you mentioned it in one of the other bugs that currently it is just blank? Ah! I live in New York, so lots of subway time too, but I tend to use old-fashioned books in it ;) When I said '404 page' I guess I meant not a true 404 page, but the page shown when no page has been created yet. I think you mentioned it in one of the other bugs that currently it is just blank? Aug 28, 2009 issue 8 (Maps) commented on by nicolas.raoul - We don't have coordinates but could try to generate them thanks to a geocoding service such as: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding It could be a nice addition if Wikitravel decided to have coordinate like Wikipedia articles. By the way, another way to get coordinates could be to follow the link to the Wikipedia article and read coordinates from the corresponding DBpedia entry. Thanks for the "maps:" hint, that will be useful! Offline maps could be Google Maps with the cache, requiring the user to recognize the area a bit in advance using a Wireless connection. We don't have coordinates but could try to generate them thanks to a geocoding service such as: http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html#Geocoding It could be a nice addition if Wikitravel decided to have coordinate like Wikipedia articles. By the way, another way to get coordinates could be to follow the link to the Wikipedia article and read coordinates from the corresponding DBpedia entry. Thanks for the "maps:" hint, that will be useful! Offline maps could be Google Maps with the cache, requiring the user to recognize the area a bit in advance using a Wireless connection. Aug 28, 2009 issue 4 (Make it usable on Android) Status changed by nicolas.raoul - Thank you so much for this trick Luis, that's exactly what OxygenGuide needed! I integrated your wiki comment in the instructions (please feel free to update the wiki directly if you want). The generator takes the wikicode and turns it into a lightweight HTML. The resulting HTML is much much lighter than the corresponding Wikitravel HTML page. But it is still HTML, and need a browser to be displayed. Thanks again for your feedback and research Luis, that's a great step for OxygenGuide on Android :-) Status: Fixed Thank you so much for this trick Luis, that's exactly what OxygenGuide needed! I integrated your wiki comment in the instructions (please feel free to update the wiki directly if you want). The generator takes the wikicode and turns it into a lightweight HTML. The resulting HTML is much much lighter than the corresponding Wikitravel HTML page. But it is still HTML, and need a browser to be displayed. Thanks again for your feedback and research Luis, that's a great step for OxygenGuide on Android :-) Status: Fixed Aug 28, 2009 Android Wiki page edited by nicolas.raoul - Revision r11 Enhanced with info from Luis Villa Revision r11 Enhanced with info from Luis Villa Aug 28, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) commented on by nicolas.raoul - I live in Tokyo, so I spend my life in the subway :-/ Of course, I prefer using the website when I have a connected PC available. I live in Tokyo, so I spend my life in the subway :-/ Of course, I prefer using the website when I have a connected PC available. Aug 28, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) commented on by luis.villa - But if you're home, don't you do that on the website and not on the downloaded version? But if you're home, don't you do that on the website and not on the downloaded version? Aug 28, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) commented on by nicolas.raoul - I, for one, sometimes browse wiki articles randomly, even when I am not on the same continent. I sometimes follow my relatives' trips all over the world and learn more about the places they are talking about. But I agree with you that most people won't need that much. Any browser would probably reuse Android's WebView component, and I am not sure we can modify its 404 page. I, for one, sometimes browse wiki articles randomly, even when I am not on the same continent. I sometimes follow my relatives' trips all over the world and learn more about the places they are talking about. But I agree with you that most people won't need that much. Any browser would probably reuse Android's WebView component, and I am not sure we can modify its 404 page. Aug 28, 2009 Android Wiki page commented on by luis.villa - Alternately, instead of installing ASTRO (now known as ASTRO file manager) you can browse to content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/(whereever you put oxygenguide)/index.html To bookmark that location, go to bookmarks->history->today and star it, don't use the normal bookmark method- that will add http:// and screw things up. Alternately, instead of installing ASTRO (now known as ASTRO file manager) you can browse to content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/(whereever you put oxygenguide)/index.html To bookmark that location, go to bookmarks->history->today and star it, don't use the normal bookmark method- that will add http:// and screw things up. Aug 28, 2009 Android Wiki page commented on by luis.villa - Alternately, instead of installing ASTRO (now known as ASTRO file manager) you can browse to content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/[where you put oxygenguide]/index.html Alternately, instead of installing ASTRO (now known as ASTRO file manager) you can browse to content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/[where you put oxygenguide]/index.html Aug 28, 2009 issue 4 (Make it usable on Android) commented on by luis.villa - yeah, use of that magic URL seems to work, though it is awkward. Hope that helps. :) yeah, use of that magic URL seems to work, though it is awkward. Hope that helps. :) Aug 28, 2009 issue 8 (Maps) commented on by luis.villa - play->pay play->pay Aug 28, 2009 issue 8 (Maps) commented on by luis.villa - Does wikitravel have the metadata necessary to automatically generate maps? (i.e., latitude/longitude coordinates?) For android, I believe that there is a way to create html links that call into the map application, so that if you had coordinates you could do something like <a href="maps://X,Y">open in map</a>. But I can't find any documentation for that, though I know I've seen it done. That seems like a cheap/easy way to integrate android maps. Of course, I guess now that I think about it what you're saying is use offline maps + GPS (which does not require a data plan)? Because obviously the use case for this is for people who don't want to play for data ;) Does wikitravel have the metadata necessary to automatically generate maps? (i.e., latitude/longitude coordinates?) For android, I believe that there is a way to create html links that call into the map application, so that if you had coordinates you could do something like <a href="maps://X,Y">open in map</a>. But I can't find any documentation for that, though I know I've seen it done. That seems like a cheap/easy way to integrate android maps. Of course, I guess now that I think about it what you're saying is use offline maps + GPS (which does not require a data plan)? Because obviously the use case for this is for people who don't want to play for data ;) Aug 28, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) commented on by luis.villa - I guess I'd say that people who want to look at information for one continent when they are in other continents are in the minority ;) Obviously it is awkward, and you want to develop a better '404' page regardless, but that seems like something that in practice most people won't do. I guess I'd say that people who want to look at information for one continent when they are in other continents are in the minority ;) Obviously it is awkward, and you want to develop a better '404' page regardless, but that seems like something that in practice most people won't do. Aug 28, 2009 issue 4 (Make it usable on Android) commented on by luis.villa - oh, he needs a full browser? I assumed he was compressing it out of HTML into something lighter-weight. I found a webpage that suggests that in Cupcake (Android 1.5, which all Android phones should now have) content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/example/file.html will display example/file.html. I am copying over oxygenguide to my android now and will report back in an hour or so ;) oh, he needs a full browser? I assumed he was compressing it out of HTML into something lighter-weight. I found a webpage that suggests that in Cupcake (Android 1.5, which all Android phones should now have) content://com.android.htmlfileprovider/sdcard/example/file.html will display example/file.html. I am copying over oxygenguide to my android now and will report back in an hour or so ;) Aug 28, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) Owner changed by nicolas.raoul - Owner: nicolas.raoul Owner: nicolas.raoul Aug 28, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) changed by nicolas.raoul - That's not difficult to do :-) But what is the best way to handle inter-continental links? A link from India to England will be broken if only Asia is downloaded, is it better than no link at all? The problem is that HTML files can not modify themselves to show links only if the target exists (and doing this programmatically would take a lot of processor time). Status: Accepted Labels: Type-Enhancement −Type-Defect That's not difficult to do :-) But what is the best way to handle inter-continental links? A link from India to England will be broken if only Asia is downloaded, is it better than no link at all? The problem is that HTML files can not modify themselves to show links only if the target exists (and doing this programmatically would take a lot of processor time). Status: Accepted Labels: Type-Enhancement −Type-Defect Aug 28, 2009 issue 4 (Make it usable on Android) commented on by nicolas.raoul - Hi Luis, Indeed, I have been keeping in touch with wgte's author for about a year, and we will sure collaborate where appropriate. Unfortunately, wgte is not ported to Android yet, so it won't help for this particular issue. It will have the same need though: We both need a browser that can browse HTML from the SD card. I can't believe nobody has implemented this yet... some big project must have done that for their Help manual. We have to find it :-) Hi Luis, Indeed, I have been keeping in touch with wgte's author for about a year, and we will sure collaborate where appropriate. Unfortunately, wgte is not ported to Android yet, so it won't help for this particular issue. It will have the same need though: We both need a browser that can browse HTML from the SD card. I can't believe nobody has implemented this yet... some big project must have done that for their Help manual. We have to find it :-) Aug 28, 2009 issue 10 (download by country or continent?) reported by luis.villa - It would be nice to be able to download just a continent or country, since most people don't do round-the-world travel, and the DB is very large. (I am in fact going on an around the world trip soon, but even then we are really only going to three continents, so easily being able to drop the Americas and Africa would be nice.) It would be nice to be able to download just a continent or country, since most people don't do round-the-world travel, and the DB is very large. (I am in fact going on an around the world trip soon, but even then we are really only going to three continents, so easily being able to drop the Americas and Africa would be nice.) Aug 28, 2009 issue 4 (Make it usable on Android) commented on by luis.villa - Seems like an obvious idea is to port wgte, no, and then combine the scraping parts of wgte and oxygenguide? But disclaimer that I have not looked at wgte's code and don't know how portable it is (other than the decision to use java.) Seems like an obvious idea is to port wgte, no, and then combine the scraping parts of wgte and oxygenguide? But disclaimer that I have not looked at wgte's code and don't know how portable it is (other than the decision to use java.) Jul 27, 2009 issue 9 (Central Tokyo links not shown) reported by nicolas.raoul - Links in the "Central Tokyo" paragraph of the Tokyo article are not shown, they should. Links in the "Central Tokyo" paragraph of the Tokyo article are not shown, they should. Jul 27, 2009 issue 4 (Make it usable on Android) commented on by nicolas.raoul - An Android application could use the GPS to propose nearby places. An Android application could use the GPS to propose nearby places. Jul 27, 2009 issue 8 (Maps) reported by nicolas.raoul - Maps would be useful. Could be a link to OpenStreetMap or Google Maps, or an embedded static image taken from OpenStreetMap. On Android, using the GPS to show location on map would be so cool. Maps would be useful. Could be a link to OpenStreetMap or Google Maps, or an embedded static image taken from OpenStreetMap. On Android, using the GPS to show location on map would be so cool. Jul 20, 2009 issue 7 (Show subregions in page) reported by nicolas.raoul - Show subregions in page. For instance, at the top of the Corsica article, there would be the list of regions that define Corsica as their greater area ("isPartOf") Show subregions in page. For instance, at the top of the Corsica article, there would be the list of regions that define Corsica as their greater area ("isPartOf") Jul 18, 2009 r10 (Fixed links in lists) committed by nicolas.raoul - Fixed links in lists Fixed links in lists Jul 18, 2009 issue 6 (Broken links for Asian regions) Status changed by nicolas.raoul - Fixed in version 0.3 just released. Status: Fixed Fixed in version 0.3 just released. Status: Fixed Jul 18, 2009 Android Wiki page edited by nicolas.raoul Jul 17, 2009 issue 6 (Broken links for Asian regions) Status changed by nicolas.raoul - I just identified the bug in line 74 of the generation script, which should use hashName instead of neutralize(line). I will fix it now, I will release a fixed 0.3 version within 6 hours. Thank you very much for the bug report! :-) Status: Started I just identified the bug in line 74 of the generation script, which should use hashName instead of neutralize(line). I will fix it now, I will release a fixed 0.3 version within 6 hours. Thank you very much for the bug report! :-) Status: Started

issue 12 (external link format not parsed) Status changed by nicolas.raoul - I think we should render external links as actually clickable links, but render them a bit differently so that people understand it is remote (which may mean unreachable or expensive). This is not difficult to implement, but we just need to decide how to show it. A different color may not be visible by some visually impaired people. An arrow image like Wikipedia does is graphically good, but for performance reasons I would rather use characters than images. Example: NYATT [>] arranges private transport services In this example, the > character should be replaced with another character that looks like an outgoing arrow, as seen on the NYC article or any other article. Or something with the same semantic. Do you know such a character?

Status: Accepted

I think we should render external links as actually clickable links, but render them a bit differently so that people understand it is remote (which may mean unreachable or expensive). This is not difficult to implement, but we just need to decide how to show it. A different color may not be visible by some visually impaired people. An arrow image like Wikipedia does is graphically good, but for performance reasons I would rather use characters than images. Example: NYATT [>] arranges private transport services In this example, the > character should be replaced with another character that looks like an outgoing arrow, as seen on the NYC article or any other article. Or something with the same semantic. Do you know such a character?

Status: Accepted

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