On Oct 12, 2014 6:54 AM, "Quim Gil" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ankita, > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ankita Shukla <[email protected] > > wrote: > > > Hello everyone! > > > > I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student > > pursuing > > the junior year of Bachelor of Technology. > > > > I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling > > dictionary > > building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki OPW > > page. > > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Collaborative_spelling_dictionary_building_tool > is mentored by Kartik and Amir (explicitly CCed above). There should have > been a link to a Bugzilla report where you and other candidates interested > could ask questions directly and discuss the project. I have created that > report now: > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71973 > > Please follow up there. > > Let me also paste the description of that project idea, just in case other > contributors in this list want to help defining it: > > There are extensive spelling dictionaries for the major languages of the > world: English, Italian, French and some others; at various degrees of > coverage, Mozilla has over a hundred > <https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/>,LibreOffice dozens > <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice>. They > help make Wikipedia articles in these languages more readable and > professional and provide an opportunity for participation in improving > spelling. Many other languages, however, don’t have spelling dictionaries. > One possible way to build good spelling dictionaries would be to employ > crowdsourcing, and Wikipedia editors can be a good source for this, but > this approach will also require a robust system in which language experts > will be able to manage the submissions: accept, reject, filter and build > new versions of the spelling dictionary upon them. This can be done as a > MediaWiki extension integrated with VisualEditor, and possibly use Wikidata > as a backend. > > - Skills: PHP, Web frontend. Bonus: Familiarity with VisualEditor and > Wikidata; experience in an existing dictionary-building community. > - Mentors: Amir Aharoni > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Aaharoni>, Kartik Mistry > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:KartikMistry> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
How would such a thing interact with the wiktionary community. Would it harvest data from them or be a sub project somehow, or is it planned to be entirely separate? --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
