Hi Michael, This might not entirely answer your question, but FYI the Kiwix team has been actively working on making a wiktionary app (offline). There are some extra hurdles to deal with, but I’ve got good hopes we will be able to come up with a first MVP by the end of this year.
Cheers, Stephane > Le 22 juil. 2020 à 19:42, Michael Chen <flamingdesc...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > Hi, > > As an avid Wiktionary user and editor, I was wondering: how difficult would > it be to fork the Wikipedia app into a Wiktionary app? If MediaWiki doesn’t > want to make an official Wiktionary app, I might still want to make my own > fork, because I think Wiktionary has a lot to offer compared to other > dictionaries available in mobile app stores. > > Looking through Phabricator, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205727 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T205727> (“Decide on the future of Android > Wiktionary app”) was declined in favor of > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165495 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T165495> (“Generic MediaWiki Android > app”), and that was closed in May 2020 because “Since the app is now wholly > dependent on Wikipedia-specific RestBase services, we can no longer > officially support a generic mediawiki flavor.” > https://blog.go2tech.de/2016/02/how-i-customized-the-wikipedia-app-to-match-the-needs-of-droidwiki-de/ > > <https://blog.go2tech.de/2016/02/how-i-customized-the-wikipedia-app-to-match-the-needs-of-droidwiki-de/> > makes it sound like all it takes to make a Wiktionary app is some simple > text replacement, but that was in 2016. If the Wikipedia API has since > substantially diverged from the Wiktionary API, perhaps it would be a lot > harder now. > > Other related bugs: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124602 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124602>: asking to add Wiktionary in the > Wikipedia app as a pop-up dictionary > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215097 > <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215097>: Dedicated view for Wiktionary > search in Wikipedia mobile apps > > There are some apps in the app stores which source data from Wiktionary, such > as Livio on Google Play, but they don’t replicate the full Wiktionary > experience. > > Thanks for your time and any insights you may be able to provide! > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Mobile-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l>
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