Re: WikDict, a web based bilingual dictionary based on Wiktionary

Minh Nguyen <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 03:27:27 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.org.wikimedia.wiktionary
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2014-12-31 18:51, svetlana wrote:
> www.wiktionary.org (similarly to www.wikipedia.org and the like
> sisters) currently is just a stupid search box where the user needs
> to manually choose a language. Rewriting it to allow users to look
> up articles in different languages (and - for some projects -
> translations), using interwiki info from Wikidata, sounds like a
> worthwhile task to me.

The www.wik*.org portals are nothing but static HTML pages plus a little 
JavaScript. Any resources loaded by these pages are small and static by 
design, to avoid sending resource usage through the roof. The portals 
are also kept as language-agnostic as possible, presenting a special 
challenge whenever any new functionality is introduced.

There is an effort underway to get (at least some) Wiktionary data into 
Wikidata. [1] It would be cleaner than relying on interwiki links, but 
it's also a ways off.

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary

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