At the urging of Amgine, I've been developing a gadget for Wikimedia projects that looks up a word you double click in Wiktioary. (It is based on a gadget from french Wikinews by User:Conrad.Irwin and User:Bequw) Anyways, I've been told that some people want to use it on there blog, so now you can. All you have to do is insert somewhere in the <head> of your html document:
<script src='http://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AWiktionaryLookup-external.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript' type='text/javascript'></script>Then whenever someone double-clicks a word, the definition will popup (See diagram at top). Its currently enabled on this blog (as well as several Wikimedia projects). Please try it out and let me know what you think.
Some notes:
- It detects the language from the lang attribute on <html> (note thats lang, not xml:lang) It will also look in js global variable wgContentLanguage for the current language.
- Supports english (EN), french (fr, frc), Dutch (nl). Translations welcome.
- This is still a work in progress. Expect improvements. Bug reports can go on [[n:Mediawiki_talk:Gadget-dictionaryLookupHover.js]]. There are also some generic instructions on [[n:WN:WiktLookup]]
- Current browser support is: Full support on Firefox, Safari. Partial support on Konqueror, Internet explorer (requires xslt support for full support. IE doesn't work due to mediawiki using a mime type that IE doesn't recognize as xslt). Theoretically should have full support on Opera, but have not tested.
Update: now with compound word support.
