... In your mail you want
to export the wiktionary data. The consequence is that when you choose
for export, you will have to do this continually as we hope to increase
the content of Ultimate Wiktionary dramatically.
--- i agree, i personally and on the road alot and only have access to
dial-up, a 'local copy' so i could search without getting online would
be great, i know that there would be a drift in the content online and
the local content, but that is acceptable for the ability to search
offline. It was just a thought, i realise the implications on
bandwidth, etc, but it is something to consider.
As far as I understand
the RFC, there is a need for responding to a request and providing a
reply in a set format. There is no need to have a database in a specific
format as long as the respons provided conforms to the RFC.
--- Yes, i was just asking about the database to see if the structure
was inplace to make an easy transition from RDB entry to a .dict
response. I think you answered it as basically, no, since each page is
formatted independantly, and Yes, since the new Ultimate Wiktionary
will have a defined structure.
As the Ultimate Wiktionary is being designed at the
moment and as
Wikidata is being built, this is a time to consider what is needed to
provide .dict functionality. This functionality will be included when
someone does the programming or when someone finds the funds to strap
the .dict functionality on top of Ultimate Wiktionary.
--- i would be willing to help and donate time to work on .dict
functionality, when things get to that point in the Ultimate
Wiktionary development please keep me in mind.
One problem I see with exporting content from
Wiktionary is the GNU-FDL
requirement to maintain the history of the contributors. For the UW, I
think it can be solved by adding the history information on the talk
page. The necessity for UW stems from the likelyhood that many
wiktionaries, if not all, may merge into the Ultimate Wiktionary and be
abandoned.
--- i agree, you don't want multiple forks of definitions floating
around, i only suggested the export for offline reference, not for
importing somewhere else and continuing from there.
-brian
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brian suda
http://suda.co.uk