[Aspell-user] Ultimate Wiktionary

[Lars Aronsson]

People on this list might be interested in learning about a new 
project named "Ultimate Wiktionary".  I'm not directly involved in 
this, but I learned about it from my involvement in Wikipedia.

You probably know about Wikipedia, an open/free content 
international encyclopedia using wiki technology, founded in 
January 2001, http://en.wikipedia.org/  From early on, the 
distinction between an encyclopedia and a dictionary was addressed 
by setting up a separate sister-project for making a free 
dictionary, termed Wiktionary, http://en.wiktionary.org/
Both projects belong to the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

But the approach of using the very same wiki software made 
Wiktionary look a lot more like Wikipedia than, say, spelling 
dictionaries such as Aspell.

The "Ultimate Wiktionary" is a new project currently in an early 
phase of design and development.  Instead of using a plain wiki, a 
complex relational database schema is drawn, with dozens of tables 
for words, word classes, inflections, semantic definitions, etc.  
Two good starting pages for information about UW are
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary   and 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_data_design

The initiator of Ultimate Wiktionary is Gerard Meijssen.


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