With Jimbo's blessings, Brion Vibber has now officially launched the Wiktionary project:
http://wiktionary.wikipedia.org
Many thanks to him for setting this up!
Where "Wikipedia is not a dictionary", "Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia" -- it focuses on brief definitions, etymology, usage notes etc.
Everyone who has, in the past, called for a wiki dictionary now has the opportunity to become a pioneer for this new project! Help create the rules and policies for the first (well, probably not) collaborative, multi-language dictionary in the world. Start the first flamewar or be the first banned user! ;-) Most importantly, by creating a user account *now*, you will get one of the low user ID numbers you will be able to impress your friends with or sell on eBay years from now. It's like Slashdot, only spelled correctly!
Please spam^H^H^H^Hinform your friends and family where appropriate.
Regards,
Erik
On Thursday 12 December 2002 05:39, Erik Moeller wrote:
With Jimbo's blessings, Brion Vibber has now officially launched the Wiktionary project:
I just looked at the [[Wiktionary]] entry and it has pronunciation symbols (IPA?) in the article. I hit edit and there are the same symbols in the edit box. Obviously the page is in Unicode (it shows in Clearlyu). Where can I get a keyboard layout that can type IPA symbols?
phma
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Pierre Abbat wrote:
I just looked at the [[Wiktionary]] entry and it has pronunciation symbols (IPA?) in the article. I hit edit and there are the same symbols in the edit box. Obviously the page is in Unicode (it shows in Clearlyu). Where can I get a keyboard layout that can type IPA symbols?
I'm ashamed to admin I just cut-n-pasted from the Windows character map applet.
I don't know of an X keyboard map for IPA, but I believe yudit (http://yudit.org) has an IPA input mode; you should be able to cut-n-paste into a browser.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Thursday 12 December 2002 16:58, Brion Vibber wrote:
I'm ashamed to admin I just cut-n-pasted from the Windows character map applet.
I don't know of an X keyboard map for IPA, but I believe yudit (http://yudit.org) has an IPA input mode; you should be able to cut-n-paste into a browser.
kxkb has something it calls a Greek layout, but I couldn't get that to work either! (it typed Cyrillic with altgr on, otherwise Latin) So I cut&pasted from a po file. See [[Thesaurus]].
phma
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