From robin@BILKENT.EDU.TR Thu Jul 25 09:36:13 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojban-out@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 25 Jul 2002 16:36:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 58897 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2002 16:36:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m9.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 25 Jul 2002 16:36:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (204.152.186.175) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 25 Jul 2002 16:36:12 -0000 Received: from lojban-out by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.05) id 17Xlb2-00040n-00 for lojban@yahoogroups.com; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:36:12 -0700 Received: from digitalkingdom.org ([204.152.186.175] helo=chain) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Xlaj-00040U-00; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:35:53 -0700 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:35:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr ([139.179.10.13] ident=root) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.05) id 17Xlad-00040L-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 09:35:48 -0700 Received: from bilkent.edu.tr (ppp139.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr [139.179.111.139]) by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g6PGZbn26935 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:35:38 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <3D405361.2030205@bilkent.edu.tr> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 19:37:05 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020610 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: Re: [lojban] Possible custom disctionary software? References: <20020724234338.GA24963@piclab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by firat.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr id g6PGZbn26935 X-archive-position: 285 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR Precedence: bulk X-list: lojban-list From: robin Reply-To: robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=810606 X-Yahoo-Profile: digambaranath X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 14733 Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: >I have spent much of my time lately rewriting from scratch the >software that runs Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia-building >project. The software is a custom Wikiwiki, with many features >designed for the project (such as facilities for uploading images >for use as illustrations and including text descriptions of them). > >It occurs to me that a few further customizations would make it >a great tool for collaboratively building a dictionary. Specifically, >instead of saving and editing just a single free-form piece of text >for each article, it could present a form to be filled out with >predicate places, definition, examples, etc. Perhaps special >markup for switching among Lojban and English. Facilities for >"locking" pages that have been completed and approved. > >You can use the current software at http://www.wikipedia.com >Any other ideas for how it might be put to use here? > > > .a'u.ie this looks like a great idea. I checked out Wikipedia, printed out the editing guide, then immediately wrote one article and revised (well, almost completely rewrote) another. The markup is easy to understand, even for people who've never used a markup language before, and as Lee says, we could easily add Lojban-specific tags. We could also run multilingual versions simultaneously. For example, at one point, when I had rather more spare time, I considered translating the gismu list into Turkish, but then decided I didn't have _that_ much spare time. On the other hand, I and any other Turkish speakers could add to a Turkish wiki dictionary (wiktionary?) as time permitted. robin.tr -- "There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't" - thinkgeek.com Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin