On 01/01/11 10:26, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > The advantage we have of using dicollect is that sophie part of that > community already lee. We would have the backing of the lead dev as well as > their entire team of devs to help work with us in implementing dicollect. >
Please understand that I wasn't suggesting you dump dicollect (and Sophie) in favour of wiktionary. But rather that you collaborate with both in an effort to: 1) Pool your collective resources, in particular wiktionary and dicollects collective submission 'crowds'. 2) Provide a more robust and feature rich dictionary resource. Allow me to illustrate. LibreOffice, dicollect and wiktionary could collaborate to achieve the following: 1) Define a HTML standard which would allow the scraping of wiktionary articles for spellings, alternatives and localised spellings, definitions, etymological information, synonyms and antonyms. 2) Use the above HTML standard to allow efficient conversion (through scraping) of wiktionary articles to hunspell formatted dictionaries and thesauruses. 3) Merge or cross-reference the wiktionary and dicollect submission processes. Such that either i) The two project merge and subsequently use the same submission processes, or ii) A submission to dicollect results in automatic scraping of the relevant wiktionary article, and if none exists automatically generates a stub (pending moderation). Whilst A submission to wiktionary (pending moderation?) automatically triggers a submission to dicollect. 4) Develop efficient in-application submission mechanisms for both dicollect (simple) and wiktionary (rich) from within LibreOffice applications. The later could be incorporated within a separate dictionary application as outlined below. 5) Develop an interface to access wiktionary's rich pool of dictionary information, perhaps a separate LibreOffice dictionary/thesaurus application. Such an application could reside on the cloud and simply use custom CSS to meld wiktionary articles into the application chrome. Of point *3*, I favour *ii* as the wikimedia interface of wiktionary may intimidate the casual user seeking only to submit a spelling or alternative spelling. I realise of course that such a collaboration, being between three organisations, would be far from easy. But it does seem that wiktionary and dicollect, at least, share a common enough goal that it would be advantageous to try. Especially given that wiktionary already has a substantial multi-lingual user-base (in particular English) where as dicollect appears to be limited to French alone (or am I incorrect in that assumption). Kind Regards, Lee Hyde. -- "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" -- Dr. Samuel Johnson (April 7th, 1775) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***