[OSGeo-Edu] Proposal: Multi-language OSGeo dictionary

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Venka, you recently mentioned to me that a Japanese (and Chinese?)  
effort that covered a similar need already existed.  Is it something  
we can re-use and add on to?  Can you provide a pointer?

Tyler

On 8-Nov-07, at 3:48 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> Hi Edu team,
>
> I would like to propose the idea of a Multi-language OSGeo dictionary.
> The scope would be to collect over the years geo* related terms in
> a multi-language style to facilitate reading/writing in other  
> languages,
> to help with software internationalization, to help when writing  
> proposals
> in non-mother-tongue languages (like me who has to write in  
> Italian) etc.
> Example: I had to write something about landscape genetics in
> Italian and lightly struggled to find the correct term.
>
> I know about a 4 languages soil science dictionary, also something  
> similar
> for other topics (but all with non-free license).
> Since we are an excellent group of experts covering many languages,
> we could run this as long-term project.
>
> We could use the Wiktionary software (http://www.wiktionary.org/) and
> keep it running.  Possibly an OSGeo hacker could also fetch  
> translations
> from Wikipedia from a handcrafted terms collection of terms to  
> populate
> an initial dictionary (using the box on the left side which references
> translations).
>
> Once a reasonable amount of terms is available, download should be
> enabled in Docbook or other formats.
>
> I have written a small page to better collect further suggestions:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Multilanguage_Dictionary
>
> Cheers
> Markus
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