[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [OSGeo-Edu] geodictionary and wiktionary

[Landon Blake]

I don't have any objections to using Wikitionary, as long as we can
categorize our entries. What is the license for Wikitionary entries?

Note: Someone with a user name of SemperBlotto deleted our Geospatial
category on October 26. Perhaps there isn't consensus within the
wikitionary community on what is an appropriate category.

Landon

P.S. - I would also note that Wikitionary seems to be more interested in
grammar than our group might be. For example, they seem to like to
categorize definitions by word type, like noun, verb, and all the other
types of words I learned about in school. I must admit I'm no expert of
English grammar, so I would need some help in this area.


-----Original Message-----
From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charlie
Schweik
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:24 AM
To: 'Victor Olaya Ferrero'
Cc: 'OSGeo-edu'
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Edu] geodictionary and wiktionary

The tradeoff is that if we implement our own mediawiki we are, in a way
competing or forking with the wiktionary and it reduces the number of
people
contributing to the global peer production larger effort. It looks like
we
also potentially lose the translation function (if it works well).

This is a similar dilemma to our issue of whether we contribute to the
wikieducator project or not.

If there was some way to "query" or extract just "geospatial" entries
somehow (e.g., a link from the OSGeo wiki to wiktionary looking for only
the
"geospatial" entries) that, to me, seems the best solution. That way
we'd be
contributing to the larger effort at the same time. Is there any way to
do
this?

My sense is authors like Victor and Marcus (or others who might
contribute
entries) might have the most at stake here, so my take is that they
should
have a larger say in the decision. But we could open it up to a vote, if
people think we should.

Cheers
Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:edu_discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Victor Olaya
Ferrero
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 4:21 AM
To: Tyler Mitchell
Cc: OSGeo-edu
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Edu] geodictionary and wiktionary

Hi all,

The wiktionary seems to be a more complete solution, specifically
designed
for that matter, but I guess that the mediawiki is simpler and meets our
needs (basically, we want to have a definition of the word in english
and
maybe its translation in other languages, so we can use that for the
book
and use words consistently through it).

The wiktionary seems a bit to "big" to me, I would use the geodictionary
instead, it is easier, and I think we are targeting the english language
more than other ones, aren't we?

regards

Victor



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