|From: "Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz" kpj@kki.net.pl |Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 01:03:05 +0200 | | |Hello all, | |Probably I am looking ahead too far but is there a need for implementing |DICT protocol (http://www.dict.org/) ? | |IMO Wikipedia is well suited for this project. | |What do you think ? | |Regards, |kpj. |[Wikipedia-l]
I just looked up "rocket" and "virus". Not impressive results, however warm I might feel to see what they have done.
On the other hand, obviously a word lookup would be a great feature and if there's nothing better, it wouldn't be bad, but, judging from this quick test, it wouldn't be great either.
And then I looked up "war". I grew up on the Devil's Dictionary (and wrote most of [[Ambrose Bierce]]), but if we are to be NPOV, then do we want to return Bierce definitions? Or Easton's 1897 Bible Divtionary? Again, cool, but is it Wikipedia?
Tom Parmenter Ortolan88