On Oct 12, 2014 6:54 AM, "Quim Gil" <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Ankita,
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Ankita Shukla <ankitashukla707(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I am Ankita Shukla and am a Computer Science and Engineering student
> pursuing
> the junior year of Bachelor of Technology.
>
> I am interested in working on the project: Collaborative spelling
> dictionary
> building tool, as given on the Featured Projects Section of MediaWiki
OPW
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FOSS_Outreach_Program_for_Women/Round_9#Coll…
is mentored by Kartik and Amir (explicitly CCed
above). There should have
been a link to a Bugzilla report where you and other candidates interested
could ask questions directly and discuss the project. I have created that
report now:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71973
Please follow up there.
Let me also paste the description of that project idea, just in case other
contributors in this list want to help defining it:
There are extensive spelling dictionaries for the major languages of the
world: English, Italian, French and some others; at various degrees of
coverage, Mozilla has over a hundred
<https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/dictionaries/>,LibreOffice dozens
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Language_support_of_LibreOffice>.
They
help make Wikipedia articles in these languages more
readable and
professional and provide an opportunity for participation in improving
spelling. Many other languages, however, don’t have spelling dictionaries.
One possible way to build good spelling dictionaries would be to employ
crowdsourcing, and Wikipedia editors can be a good source for this, but
this approach will also require a robust system in which language experts
will be able to manage the submissions: accept, reject, filter and build
new versions of the spelling dictionary upon them. This can be done as a
MediaWiki extension integrated with VisualEditor, and possibly use
Wikidata
as a backend.
- Skills: PHP, Web frontend. Bonus: Familiarity with VisualEditor and
Wikidata; experience in an existing dictionary-building community.
- Mentors: Amir Aharoni
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/User:Aaharoni>, Kartik Mistry
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:KartikMistry>
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How would such a thing interact with the wiktionary community. Would it
harvest data from them or be a sub project somehow, or is it planned to be
entirely separate?
--bawolff