[OSGeo-Edu] geodictionary and wiktionary

[Charlie Schweik]

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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