Thanks a lot for feedback, I think I can discuss these options with my mentor, I hope :).
2014-02-28 18:51 GMT+02:00 Gabriel Wicke <gwi...@wikimedia.org>: > Hi Roman! > > On 02/28/2014 01:24 AM, Brian Wolff wrote: > > On 2/28/14, Roman Zaynetdinov <romanz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Help people in reading complex texts by providing inline translation for > >> unknown words. For me as a non-native English speaker student sometimes > is > >> hard to read complicated texts or articles, that's why I need to search > for > >> translation or description every time. Why not to simplify this and > change > >> the flow from translate and understand to translate, learn and > understand? > > This sounds like a great idea. > > >> There are two ways in my mind right now. First is to make a web-site > built > >> on Node.js with open API for users. Parsoid could be used for parsing > data > >> from Wiktionary API which is suitable for Node. A small JavaScript > widget > >> is also required for front-end representation. > > You could basically write a node service that pulls in the Parsoid HTML > for a given wiktionary term and extracts the info you need from the DOM > and returns it in a JSON response to a client-side library. > Alternatively (or as a first step), you could download the Parsoid HTML > of the wiktionary article on the client and extract the info there. This > could even be implemented as a gadget. We recently set liberal CORS > headers to make this easy. > > >> Parsoid could be used for parsing data > >> from Wiktionary API which is suitable for Node > > > > Just as a warning, parsing data from wiktionary into usable form is a > > lot harder then it looks, so don't underestimate this step. (Or at > > least it was several years ago when I last tried) > > The Parsoid rendering (e.g. [1]) has pretty much all semantic > information in the DOM. There might still be wiktionary-specific issues > that we don't know about yet, but tasks like extracting template > parameters or the rendering of specific templates (IPA,..) are already > straightforward. Also see the DOM spec [2] for background. > > Gabriel > > [1]: http://parsoid-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/foo > Other languages via frwiktionary, fiwiktionary, ... > [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/MediaWiki_DOM_spec > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
