[Parley-devel] [Bug 175070] New: add semi-automatic image download like in AmaroK

[Piotr Kubowicz]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175070

           Summary: add semi-automatic image download like in AmaroK
           Product: parley
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: MS Windows
        OS/Version: MS Windows
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: parley-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: derbeth at interia.pl


Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
OS:                MS Windows
Installed from:    MS Windows

Currently there's an option to add illustrations to words. But user still has
to find and download such illustrations. My idea is to make use of
free-licensed images gathered by Wikimedia Commons
(http://commons.wikimedia.org/). Because words have different meanings, it's
not easy to automatically find the matching photo, so here's an another idea:
utilise the same mechanism AmaroK uses to get CD covers: user clicks "find
image", gets a dialog window with image previev and buttons: "save",
"previous", "next". In this way user can choose between different illustrations
of the same word (sometimes word can have many different meanings).

To avoid making a copyright violation, there should be some way of showing
copyright information for each image downloaded from Wikimedia Commons. I
suggest adding an URL poiting to image description page (which looks like
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Emmentaler.jpg) to dictionary XML. When
showing the image, there should always be a button "show image info", starting
a web browser with remembered URL.

One suggestion about where to get images from: don't use Wikipedia or Wikimedia
Commmons. You should use Wiktionary, because it has images for words in many
languages. All images used on Wiktionary come from Wikimedia Commons. I suggest
checking different language versions of Wiktionary in the following order:
de.wiktionary, pl.wiktionary, en.wiktionary, fr.wiktionary. That's because
different language versions use image more or less eagerly. In my suggested
AmaroK-way of checking images you don't have to check all language versions at
once: you can visit first version, fetch all images, when user click "next" and
reaches the end of all fetched - go and visit another language version, fetch
more images etc.

Examples:
http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Turm
http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/kolumna


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