Re: How to make Emacs popular again.

[tomas]

On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 07:15:15PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> * tomas@tuxteam.de <tomas@tuxteam.de> [2020-10-01 18:20]:
> > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:39:29PM +0300, Jean Louis wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > As long as dict database of Wiktionary exists, as I think, by the
> > > license, it should exist, so I have asked the webmaster to tell me
> > > about that.
> > 
> > I think all those questions are answered in their web pages. The
> > license(s) are here [1]. The download question is in the FAQ [2]:
> > 
> > "Q: Is it possible to download Wiktionary?
> > 
> >  A: Yes. https://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/ should have
> >     the latest copy of the main namespace. The cleanest navigation
> >     page is https://dumps.wikimedia.org/. Just download a
> >     *-articles.xml.bz2 file and some software to read it (for
> >     *nix, for Windows).
> > 
> > (The "for *nix..." are actually links to software).
> 
> I have tried that, I did not find RFC 2229 format there. When I
> mentioned "dict database" I was referring to RFC 2229 standard. Do you
> know the link to such database?

Wait, RFC 2229 is a protocol description, not a storage format
description? So the wikimedia dump format would be irrelevant
here, I guess.

Related, but not quite on-topic, there seems to be an effort
towards providing a dict interface to the wiktionary itself,
so if you want to help there [1], I'm sure they'll appreciate.

Cheers

[1] https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dictionary_extensions

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