[Parley-devel] common vocabulary lists

[Juergen :-)]

Hi Sabine,
thanks for the links. By wiki-type I wasn't suggesting a wiki but rather 
the principle of a wiki - collaboration editing.

If a user can import other lists into her/his own collection what would 
be needed is a "remove duplicates" function. A kind of list where one 
can see which vocabularies are doubled by the new import and which "set" 
should be deleted. It could be something like "delete all duplicates" or 
one can check-mark the ones one wants to delete (or keep) so that one 
can choose the better entry to stay.

Be at peace and in harmony.
Juergen


If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0

Sabine Cretella wrote on 25/04/10 23:30:
> Jürgen, please give me some days - I will try to answer you on that. 
> There's just too much stuff around.
>
> I want to see if Google spreadsheets can digest the big list - the 
> small one for sure. So that is where you then can invite people to 
> contribut with - Wikis are too prone to vandalism IMHO - you need 
> people that won't mix up your data - the handful of people that will 
> work on it should be sure that their time is invested well.
>
> Of course you can go the Wiki-way, but please remember that there is 
> always loads of admin work on a wiki to do and that takes away time 
> from actually contributing. This is one of the reasons why I stopped 
> to work on Wiktionary - it took me more time to clean vandalisms than 
> I could in the end add in new terminology (which in any case cannot be 
> extracted easily)
>
> Maybe we have even a better way to do things, but I am myself waiting 
> for information.
>
> Btw. for English-Spanish:
> http://ambaradan.i-iter.org/voxhumanitatis/raw-file/b7fc8f4fa976/anaphraseus/eng-spa/anaphraseusEnWikt-eng-spa.txt
> This is the English-Spanish wordlist in a tab delimited format from 
> the English wiktionary. - eventually you will first have to set the 
> encoding of your browser to utf-8 and than you can save the file properly
>
> http://ambaradan.i-iter.org/voxhumanitatis/raw-file/b7fc8f4fa976/parley/eng-spa/VocTrainVH-eng-spa.kvtml
> file of VH data for Parley - eventually you will first have to set the 
> encoding of your browser to utf-8 and than you can save the file properly
>
> I have another two data sets here - one on environmental terminology 
> and one general/specialised mixed, but don't have time to convert them 
> right now ... this will take a bit.
>
> cheers, Sabine
>
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Juergen :-) 
> <b4tasttd at auroville.org.in <mailto:b4tasttd at auroville.org.in>> wrote:
>
>     Hi everybody,
>
>     Sabine's mail about collective files brings up another aspect for me.
>     Presently there is no way to build vocabulary-lists together. That
>     is a
>     pity because practically everybody has to start from scratch with
>     on of
>     the present lists.
>     But if one user builds a list and uploads it some other user can
>     download it and use it and add to it but not upload it under the same
>     file. My suggestion to think about a solution.
>     I guess in whatever language there could be a template for a
>     structure like
>
>     at home
>     at work
>     in a restaurant
>     in the post office
>     etc
>
>     If Parley could have a kind of wiki-list where people simply could add
>     or edit words or grammar then this file could be used by all users of
>     the same language and if this file could work in reverse order like
>     EN-ES as well as ES-EN one could expect a faster grow of language
>     files.
>
>     This will not take care of people who use a specific book and want to
>     follow the vocabularies of this book.
>
>     Be at peace and in harmony.
>     Juergen
>