People on this list might be interested in learning about a new project named "Ultimate Wiktionary". I'm not directly involved in this, but I learned about it from my involvement in Wikipedia.
You probably know about Wikipedia, an open/free content international encyclopedia using wiki technology, founded in January 2001, http://en.wikipedia.org/ From early on, the distinction between an encyclopedia and a dictionary was addressed by setting up a separate sister-project for making a free dictionary, termed Wiktionary, http://en.wiktionary.org/ Both projects belong to the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. But the approach of using the very same wiki software made Wiktionary look a lot more like Wikipedia than, say, spelling dictionaries such as Aspell. The "Ultimate Wiktionary" is a new project currently in an early phase of design and development. Instead of using a plain wiki, a complex relational database schema is drawn, with dozens of tables for words, word classes, inflections, semantic definitions, etc. Two good starting pages for information about UW are http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_data_design The initiator of Ultimate Wiktionary is Gerard Meijssen. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ Aspell-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-user
