From jay.kominek@colorado.edu Thu Jul 26 23:57:24 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 27 Jul 2001 06:57:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 4733 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2001 06:57:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by l7.egroups.com with QMQP; 27 Jul 2001 06:57:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ucsub.colorado.edu) (128.138.129.12) by mta2 with SMTP; 27 Jul 2001 06:57:23 -0000 Received: from ucsub.colorado.edu (kominek@ucsub.colorado.edu [128.138.129.12]) by ucsub.colorado.edu (8.11.2/8.11.2/ITS-5.0/student) with ESMTP id f6R6v8f20925 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:57:08 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:57:08 -0600 (MDT) To: Subject: [website] jbovlaste! Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII From: Jay Kominek X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 8952 Ok. After a couple of late nights, I've got the web-based dictionary functioning. (For some hopefully useful value of functioning.) I've got it loaded up with the contents of the gismu, cmavo and NORALUJV.txt wordlists. (With most of ENGDICT.GIS merged in.) Searching is available, submission works, submission pages contain examples along the right side, and you can just search for something to see what values are being used. http://www.miranda.org/~jkominek/jbovlaste/ (It will redirect, at the moment, to http://miranda.org:8081/jbovlaste/ which, through the miracle of ssh tunneling, connects you to a web server on my personal box. Since I'm connected via a less than perfectly stable ISDN line, it may or may not be available when you try. If its not, try again a bit later, maybe it will be back.) Some things left to be done: * Actively checking usernames, so that the author of each definition is recorded. (Trivial) * Autogeneration of printable copies of the dictionary. (Going to require an unpleasent amount of fiddling with TeX to get publication-quality results autogenerated. Ugly results should appear sometime next week.) * A modified DICT server which provides another front-end to searching the data. (http://www.dict.org/ for more information about DICT.) * Speeding up the searching. That will require constructing more intelligent SQL queries. * Mechanism for uploading a file of bulk submissions, so that people doing lots of work don't need to be online, or use a web browser to enter data. * Making it look nice. * Finding some place permenant to host it. (My current options only provide MySQL, and I'm not going to try screwing around with that toy SQL server any more, ever again.) I made use of the (one) comment I received after my last call for comments on the dictionary, and added a field for etymology of words. Should you have any questions, comments or suggestions for the dictionary, I want to hear them. Really. I swear. I do. Hopefully, by demonstrating that it now _works_, I might be able to get feedback from the crowd which requires results. - Jay Kominek p.s. - Hope everyone has fun at Logfest, wish I could be there. :/