It is very simple: there will be swearwords in WiktionaryZ as well, but they will not be part of the OPLC Children's Dictionary since we will have that one as a collection and as such the dump used for OLPC will include only the contents we want in there.
Well, yes, OLPC inspires Open Content as well. We are already working on a dictionary for Children on WiktionaryZ, the OLPC Children's Dictionary. What you can do for us? You can contribute to the translations of the defined meanings - just ten words + definition to translate in any of the many languages of the worls. No... it's not a joke... we need your help and if you cannot help us, please tell other people. Thank you!!!
Having read this article, your blog http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/, being an admin of http://it.wiktionary.org/ I am really wondering the same. Wiktionary is so much more than an "ordinary" dictionary like websters... just take the glossaries we are creating. Some of them quite specific like the Italian-German geological terminology on the Italian wiktionary, the Christianity-glossary on nl and it.... all the pronunciations (most of them Dutch). Now with Ultimate Wiktionary all the work done during the last months will have even more value. People are contributing not only with words, but also from the financial side. It be came of so much value for educational purposes, for people studying languages. It even attraccted attention of European Community level glossaries. I'd very much like to know what Larry would say if he knew that language professionals are working on wiktionary. I'd like him to have a closer look to what he described and he will see that the actual Wiktionary, the development that went on and on during the last year... or really not even a year... is so much more than he says.
Thanks for your attention!
Sabine Cretella
Slashdot Mirror
We already made some thoughts on this since we are involved in building the OLPC Children's Dictionary ( http://wiktionaryz.org/OLPC ) ... and there is so much to consider. I wrote about it - it is a very long consideration ... so that would be a bit long for slashdot. Who is interested can read it on my blog: http://sabinecretella.blogspot.com/2006/11/olpc-wh o-would-buy-laptop-at-which.html.
Thanks, Sabine.
It is very simple: there will be swearwords in WiktionaryZ as well, but they will not be part of the OPLC Children's Dictionary since we will have that one as a collection and as such the dump used for OLPC will include only the contents we want in there.
Well, yes, OLPC inspires Open Content as well. We are already working on a dictionary for Children on WiktionaryZ, the OLPC Children's Dictionary. What you can do for us? You can contribute to the translations of the defined meanings - just ten words + definition to translate in any of the many languages of the worls. No... it's not a joke ... we need your help and if you cannot help us, please tell other people. Thank you!!!
Having read this article, your blog http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/, being an admin of http://it.wiktionary.org/ I am really wondering the same. Wiktionary is so much more than an "ordinary" dictionary like websters ... just take the glossaries we are creating. Some of them quite specific like the Italian-German geological terminology on the Italian wiktionary, the Christianity-glossary on nl and it .... all the pronunciations (most of them Dutch). Now with Ultimate Wiktionary all the work done during the last months will have even more value. People are contributing not only with words, but also from the financial side. It be came of so much value for educational purposes, for people studying languages. It even attraccted attention of European Community level glossaries. I'd very much like to know what Larry would say if he knew that language professionals are working on wiktionary. I'd like him to have a closer look to what he described and he will see that the actual Wiktionary, the development that went on and on during the last year ... or really not even a year ... is so much more than he says.
Thanks for your attention!
Sabine Cretella