I don't have any objections to using Wikitionary, as long as we can categorize our entries. What is the license for Wikitionary entries?
Note: Someone with a user name of SemperBlotto deleted our Geospatial category on October 26. Perhaps there isn't consensus within the wikitionary community on what is an appropriate category. Landon P.S. - I would also note that Wikitionary seems to be more interested in grammar than our group might be. For example, they seem to like to categorize definitions by word type, like noun, verb, and all the other types of words I learned about in school. I must admit I'm no expert of English grammar, so I would need some help in this area. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Schweik Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:24 AM To: 'Victor Olaya Ferrero' Cc: 'OSGeo-edu' Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Edu] geodictionary and wiktionary The tradeoff is that if we implement our own mediawiki we are, in a way competing or forking with the wiktionary and it reduces the number of people contributing to the global peer production larger effort. It looks like we also potentially lose the translation function (if it works well). This is a similar dilemma to our issue of whether we contribute to the wikieducator project or not. If there was some way to "query" or extract just "geospatial" entries somehow (e.g., a link from the OSGeo wiki to wiktionary looking for only the "geospatial" entries) that, to me, seems the best solution. That way we'd be contributing to the larger effort at the same time. Is there any way to do this? My sense is authors like Victor and Marcus (or others who might contribute entries) might have the most at stake here, so my take is that they should have a larger say in the decision. But we could open it up to a vote, if people think we should. Cheers Charlie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Olaya Ferrero Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 4:21 AM To: Tyler Mitchell Cc: OSGeo-edu Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] geodictionary and wiktionary Hi all, The wiktionary seems to be a more complete solution, specifically designed for that matter, but I guess that the mediawiki is simpler and meets our needs (basically, we want to have a definition of the word in english and maybe its translation in other languages, so we can use that for the book and use words consistently through it). The wiktionary seems a bit to "big" to me, I would use the geodictionary instead, it is easier, and I think we are targeting the english language more than other ones, aren't we? regards Victor _______________________________________________ Edu_discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss _______________________________________________ Edu_discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/edu_discuss Warning: Information provided via electronic media is not guaranteed against defects including translation and transmission errors. If the reader is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this information in error, please notify the sender immediately. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
