No, it's not about Jimmy :P It's about the software for parsing dictionaries. And we are presently inside of not so stable phase of switching from the name "dictator" to "dicteator" (etymology is "dictionary creator").
One of my strategic goals in relation to the movement itself is to create methodology for parsing dictionaries and adding them into the Wikimedia projects (first Wiktionary, but Wikidata and likely some other projects in the future) and a pool of programmers to keep that knowledge inside of the movement. So, besides the software itself [1], one of the tasks of Milos Trifunovic, programmer who is inserting data for the project Wiktionary Meets Matica Srpska [2] was to create a white paper about the process itself, which he did [3]. I know there were numerous previous additions of the dictionaries into the Wiktionaries, but, as far as I know, no systematic effort was put into dissemination of that knowledge. We are at the beginning of the process. Up to the present, there are ~26k new entries on Serbian Wiktionary. The code is in the initial useful phase. Up to the end of this part of the process I expect from a few hundred thousand to a few million of new entries all over Wiktionary editions (the most optimistic estimation is a few dozen million entries; estimation varies that much because of many factors, including future community involvement; one million is a reachable target). Keep in mind that there are three different stages of the software, with various levels of usefulness and complexity: 1) Adding the content into Wiktionary. This depends on particular Wiktionary customs, could be easily changed and didn't require too much of sophistication, as it's dominantly about Pywikipediabot and wiki syntax. 2) JSON intermediate storage. That's important as it's the most formal way for representing dictionary data for future use, not depending of destination platform. There is a space for further development of the particular format and your participation will be appreciated. 3) Parsing particular dictionary. That's dictionary-specific, but a number of methods could be shared for parsing other dictionaries. As many dictionaries we have, as much we will have developed common methods. So, if you are interested into the matter, please go to the talk page [4] and give your suggestions. Also, don't hesitate to reach me directly. [1] https://github.com/Interglider/dictator [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Interglider.ORG/Wiktionary_Meets_Matica_Srpska [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Dicteator [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Dicteator _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
