Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Dictionary Syncing

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 <anubeon@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.
>
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