Hello,
I've just released a dictionary app for iOS based on Wiktionary data [1] [2].
It works offline, it's free (as in beer), doesn't have ads and integrates with the iOS Wikipedia app. However it's not open source, although that is something I'm considering for later. I haven't had much feedback so far so I'm really curious if you find it useful in its current stage. The main intention is to turn it into a tool for language learning, but it's not quite there yet. It should already be useful as a general purpose offline dictionary though.
Jan
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/July#mot.C3.AE.2... [2] https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=104612282...
Dear Jan
Looks to be a really nice app. I'm not sure I fully understood all the features, do you confirm it's not a tool to provide word translations (except to English)?
Other question: is the software opensource? We, at Kiwix, are in particular interested in the scrapper.
Regards Emmanuel
On 08.07.2017 11:25, Jan Berkel wrote:
Hello,
I've just released a dictionary app for iOS based on Wiktionary data [1] [2].
It works offline, it's free (as in beer), doesn't have ads and integrates with the iOS Wikipedia app. However it's not open source, although that is something I'm considering for later. I haven't had much feedback so far so I'm really curious if you find it useful in its current stage. The main intention is to turn it into a tool for language learning, but it's not quite there yet. It should already be useful as a general purpose offline dictionary though.
Jan[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2017/July#mot.C3.AE.2... [2] https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=104612282...
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Hello Emmanuel,
Looks to be a really nice app. I'm not sure I fully understood all the features, do you confirm it's not a tool to provide word translations (except to English)?
it's not so much a translation software (like Google Translate), there is no way to translate sentences or parts of sentences, but you can look up single word translations (or whatever the stored unit on Wiktionary is). Its main purpose is to make a subset of Wiktionary available offline (and adapt it for mobile consumption).
Other question: is the software opensource? We, at Kiwix, are in particular interested in the scrapper.
The iOS app itself is not open source, but big parts of the extraction software are. the main work is done by JWKTL (Java-based Wiktionary Library, https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-jwktl), where I'm also a contributor.
JWKTL parses the data into a BerkeleyDB file; I wrote a small adapter to use SQLite instead. It should be easy to do something similar for the ZIM format.
However, more recently I've started to move away from JWKTL since a some data cannot be extracted from the raw mediawiki markup alone. A good example are pronunciations, which are often entirely generated in Lua.
For this I use a combination of microformats2 and a simple Python parser. See this thread on phabricator for more details: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138709#3048681
This often requires some minor changes to templates or modules. My plan is to add special markup for the most important features, which should also help with the transition to Wikidata.
Jan