My apologies for the mis understanding there Lee. I think the problem we would run into is 2 different schools of thought on how the same goal should be achieved.
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Lee Hyde <anub...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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<discuss%2bh...@documentfoundation.org> > Archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- 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 ***
