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I'm looking for a open source project for dictionary for a language (probably you never heard of it) which has not been "digitized". The dictionary will be from one language to several others, and several others to THE language. Since the language has not been "digitized", I need following features along with searching a word:
1 - Add your own translation to existing words/phrases
2 - Add a new word/phrase and add translation
3 - Request a word/phrase to be translated
4 - Rate (like/dislike or rate within the range) the translation (depending on the rating "correctness" get points")
5 - Possibly relate words (especially nouns) with pictures
6 - Easier to implement mobile version of it
I guess it's more "collaboration site", than dictionary. So the project I'm looking for may not be called as "Dictionary".
I know it's possible to design and write from the scratch, but would be good to begin with something in hand, especially if you are just spending your time/effort for non-profit stuff.
I'm looking around for the project, but didn't find something useful. At the same time designing the architecture in my mind.
If you could share some open source projects, it would be really great.
Thanks.
I am unsure what exactly you need, but would Wiktionary be of any help? There are a lot of localized variations to support different languages and there will probably be a way to ask them to support your language of interest, if it is not already there.
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Is there any open source user-guide type creation software available? Or is it best to use wiki type systems? We want to be able to create user guides on the fly through a web front end and accessible on the net. Or is this best achieved using Wikis?
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I use MediaWiki for a user-guide and help page at my company, and it works really well!
Create custom namespaces for different parts, and if you want to have access controls you can create different groups.
The extensions are great, because you can always find one to do anything you want (ie. print to PDF for an offline copy)
I'd strongly recommend using Wikis. As long as your chosen one's markup covers your needs, it's ideal for user guides.
This post is not 100% on topic - it's about creating user manual for the workplace (as opposed to the software) - but many ideas are still worth reading.
This is a good guide for using Wiki in knowledge sharing.
http://www.futurechanges.org/patterns/
We have used Wikispaces.com to create manuals and guides for several projects. Especially if you are a non-profit with a K-12 educational mission, then current setup for a Wikispace includes Private Projects so you can evolve documentation and make it public when it's appropriate to do so.
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I'm trying to find a free downloadable dictionary (or Corpus might be the better word) which I can import into MySQL. I need to words to have the type (noun, verb, adjective) associated with them. Any tips on where I can find one? I found one several years ago that worked nicely, but I no longer have it around.
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Project Gutenberg has public domain books you can download.
This includes 'The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary', but nothing modern, and not in a format immediately suitable for import into a MySQL database.
Not without some work, anyway. What was the one you found "years ago" ?
Kevin's Word List Page includes a part of speech database.
Wiktionary
The 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, now in the public domain
http://www.desiquintans.com/nounlist looks pretty good... I searched 'nouns.txt' and it came right up.
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I'm looking for a Common Lisp implementation I ran across once, sometime in the past year or two. I only remember a few things, and I don't know how to search for it based on these facts, so maybe somebody here can help.
it was open-source, but wasn't one of the big ones (SBCL, CMUCL, MCL, etc.)
it was likely incomplete; it looked almost more like an exercise in writing the simplest possible self-hosted Common Lisp
the main webpage was plain black-on-white, and had 2 columns, where the left column was a link to the source file for a particular area of functionality (loop, format, clos, etc.), and the right column was a link to the tests for that functionality
the source files themselves were pretty-printed for the web, with syntax highlighting that looked kind of like an old Redhat Emacs default config: slate-gray background, etc.
Where can I find this Lisp implementation?
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I don't know which one you are referring too, but you can find a list of Common Lisp Implementations here.
Is there any particular reason why this Lisp is grabbing your attention now?
Its hard to pin down, but open-source + minimalistic + incomplete sounds vaugely similar to Paul Graham's Arc programming language.
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Does anyone know of a FOSS alternative to mediawiki?
Specifically I'm looking for the in-built features of granular access control, a hierarchy of pages users can navigate, and more easy to use than mediawiki.
Well, there's Dokuwiki. It's very nice, and it's my Wiki of choice. It is supposed to provide granular access control; I have never really worked with it, however, and my impression is it's not that great (I can be wrong, though, I've never really examined it).
Building hierarchies of pages is easy though, and showing a navigation structure too, using the indexmenu plugin.
I find the setup of a fresh Dokuwiki to be a bit cumbersome at times, but the everyday work is very easy and straightforward. I do not know Mediawiki that well so I can't compare, but if you are looking at Wikis, Dokuwiki is definitely something to look at.
There's also the WikiMatrix, a comprehensive comparison of a huge number of Wikis, incidentally built and run by the author of DokuWiki.
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I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums.
Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database.
Right now all my site is Perl-based, and looking around I don't see many great Perl forums - the only obvious one I could find which is featureful is yabb - but that is written to authenticate against flat files and to be frank the code is nasty.
If I need to use a PHP solution then so be it, but first are there any simple forums that are written in perl that you'd suggest? I'd expect to have different forum-groups and nominate particular users as moderators. More than that I don't need, just basic threading and an attractive appearance.
Really simple forums are often really insecure forums. If you're determined to use perl, a major web forum doesn't come to mind, and if your competent in security I'd say roll your own. You could even release it to the open source community to help people like you. I know there are several great PHP ones out there that aren't so insecure an rather well developed.
I seem to remember that Drupal had a reasonable fit as a module.