[Lexicog] Wikipedia

[Benjamin Barrett]

That looks like the ticket! There is a list of languages at
http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:List_of_languages, some of which have
an index started.

Conceptually, it looks like the index should have a list of all the letters
words in the language could start with, as shown in the English index at
http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:English_index. It appears none of the
native languages have an index set up like that, though a few like Hawaiian
do have index pages.

I'm going to have to check on the font, though. I'm not sure all the letters
in Makah are represented in Unicode when you take diacritics into account.

Benjamin Barrett

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Wayne Leman [mailto:wayne_leman at sil.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 5:29 AM
>To: lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [Lexicog] Wikipedia
>
>
>Interesting idea, Benjamin. I have been contributing some to
>Wikipedia recently. It's fun. I would think that their
>dictionary project, Wiktionary, also for different languages,
>might be an even better prospect for some of us to try. I
>suspect they would want dictionary contributions to be in
>majority languages, but some on this Lexicography List are
>working in languages which could be considered majority
>languages, such as some in Africa which have millions of speakers.
>
>The Wiktionary URL is:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary
>
>Wayne
>-----
>Wayne Leman
>Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language
>
>
>
>> Has anyone looked into using Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com) or their
>software
>> for online dictionary use? It appears to be GNU and so free for use
>> (http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/).
>>
>> I asked my contact on the Makah nation (extreme NW of the US) who
>> sounded interested. I've never used it, but would be interested in
>> perhaps setting up a Makah language Wikipedia or a
>completely separate
>> site.
>>
>> Benjamin Barrett





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