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.
http://www.dict.org " Last modified: Fri Jul 16 01:14:24 1999" -- i think this say's it all.
A other project that is very alive to think about is http://freenetproject.org It is very beta but it works more or less. It is project for distributing informaton whitout the posibility of censurship. Acces to wikipedia can be forbidden but not to a freesite (so far a know)
A Freenet Wikipedia light site would be nice. --- giskart
|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
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