Re: Ultimate Wiktionary and design decisions
Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
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cookfire wrote: > James R. Johnson wrote: > >> If there were an Ultimate Wiktionary, I'd like to have ang available in >> Latin and Runic sets. >> >> James >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Breen >> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2005 10:12 PM >> To: The Wiktionary (http://www.wiktionary.org) mailing list >> Subject: Re: [Wiktionary-l] Ultimate Wiktionary and design decisions >> >> [Gerard Meijssen ([Wiktionary-l] Ultimate Wiktionary and design >> decisions) >> writes:] >> >> >>>> For the Ultimate Wiktionary I have documented some of the design >>>> criteria. It can be found here: >>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_decisions_on_its_usage >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> >>>> The Data design can be found here: >>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_data_design >>>> >>> >> >> I have added some comments to the Discussion pages of those two. >> >> >> >>>> One crucial decision is that only correct spelling is allowed. >>>> >>> >> >> Fine, as long as you are going to cater for multiple correct spellings. >> If you don't it's going to be difficult for some languages, e.g., >> English, and impossible for others, e.g.. Japanese. >> >> > Many languages have different accepted spellings for the same word. > Japanese with the three character sets. German with umlauts and ae, oe > and ue or ss instead of ß. Esperanto accepts cx and ch for ^c. Dutch > had at one time a preferred and a progressive spelling and English has > some variants depending on the locality it is spoken. I'm sure it > doesn't end there and it is something a multilingual dictionary has to > cater for. Adding common misspellings shouldn't be all that hard. They > simply need a possibility to be marked as such. The misspellings don't > exactly have to be shown either (except maybe on demand), but when > somebody uses them to search the database, the entries they point to > should be found. > > Just my 2 cents, > > Polyglot Hoi, Have a look at the latest design it caters for having some Miss Pellings. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_decisions_on_its_usage#Only_correct_spelling Thanks, Gerard PS the design is still very much an evolving thing