From lee@piclab.com Wed Jul 24 16:43:39 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: lee@piclab.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_7_4); 24 Jul 2002 23:43:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 42345 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2002 23:43:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m10.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 24 Jul 2002 23:43:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sanantonio.piclab.com) (66.216.68.43) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Jul 2002 23:43:38 -0000 Received: (qmail 24984 invoked by uid 502); 24 Jul 2002 23:43:38 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 18:43:38 -0500 To: Lojban List Subject: Possible custom disctionary software? Message-ID: <20020724234338.GA24963@piclab.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-URL: http://www.piclab.com/lee/ From: Lee Daniel Crocker X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1436760 X-Yahoo-Profile: bowtie95841 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? -- Lee Daniel Crocker "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC