On 28 February 2016 at 13:07, Andreas Kolbe <jayen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What originally triggered my curiosity was this: I noticed a couple of > weeks ago that the Kindle offered a Wikipedia look-up function. I couldn't > recall -- and cannot find -- any corresponding WMF announcement. So, how > did this happen? >
Amazon is using our APIs and/or dumps. There's little to add to Brion's explanation of how this works, so I'd suggest you re-read it. > "In side project work, the team spent time on API continuation queries, > Android IP editing notices, Amazon Kindle and other non-Google Play > distribution, and Google Play reviews (now that the Android launch dust has > settled, mobile apps product management will be triaging the reviews)." > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/July To the best of my knowledge, that refers to exactly what Brion suggested it might, specifically working on the Android app so that it's compatible with more platforms. It has nothing to do with the Wikipedia lookup functionality on the Kindle. Dan -- Dan Garry Lead Product Manager, Discovery Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
