Thanks a lot for feedback, I think I can discuss these options with my mentor, I hope :).
2014-02-28 18:51 GMT+02:00 Gabriel Wicke gwicke@wikimedia.org:
Hi Roman!
On 02/28/2014 01:24 AM, Brian Wolff wrote:
On 2/28/14, Roman Zaynetdinov romanznet@gmail.com wrote:
Help people in reading complex texts by providing inline translation for unknown words. For me as a non-native English speaker student sometimes
is
hard to read complicated texts or articles, that's why I need to search
for
translation or description every time. Why not to simplify this and
change
the flow from translate and understand to translate, learn and
understand?
This sounds like a great idea.
There are two ways in my mind right now. First is to make a web-site
built
on Node.js with open API for users. Parsoid could be used for parsing
data
from Wiktionary API which is suitable for Node. A small JavaScript
widget
is also required for front-end representation.
You could basically write a node service that pulls in the Parsoid HTML for a given wiktionary term and extracts the info you need from the DOM and returns it in a JSON response to a client-side library. Alternatively (or as a first step), you could download the Parsoid HTML of the wiktionary article on the client and extract the info there. This could even be implemented as a gadget. We recently set liberal CORS headers to make this easy.
Parsoid could be used for parsing data from Wiktionary API which is suitable for Node
Just as a warning, parsing data from wiktionary into usable form is a lot harder then it looks, so don't underestimate this step. (Or at least it was several years ago when I last tried)
The Parsoid rendering (e.g. [1]) has pretty much all semantic information in the DOM. There might still be wiktionary-specific issues that we don't know about yet, but tasks like extracting template parameters or the rendering of specific templates (IPA,..) are already straightforward. Also see the DOM spec [2] for background.
Gabriel
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