Dear all,
I am writing to let you know that I have just released a new Labs Tool
etytree http://tools.wmflabs.org/etytree/etymology/resources/html/index.html
http://tools.wmflabs.org/etytree/etymology/resources/html/index.html
to visualize etymologies. This work was part of and IEG project. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary If you have ideas on places where I could do dissemination, please let me know.
Also your feedback is welcome on the talk https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary#Comments_on_the_interactive_tool_etytree page of the project, if you like. Note that this is the first release! I have written down some notes about how to make it easier to parse Etymologies in the English Wiktionary with some ideas I have about new templates, possibly here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_...
Your comments in there would be helpful too. Some additional notes follow:
1. In the future I would like to use the nicer demo http://www.epantaleo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/index.html I made a while ago. I could not because there were loops between words that could not be fit in trees (in trees branches don't merge). Loops are conflicting etymologies. Many are due to simple inconsistencies that users can easily fix, others are real conflicting etymologies and should be represented using multiple trees. I will work on this in a future release. 2. Etymology sections rarely link to words and their sense/pos, generally only link to the lemma. This is a problem for homographs, because they generally have different etymological trees which get mixed up in this current implementation. See for example the discussion on the Etymology Scriptorium https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Etymology_scriptorium/2017/February#A_new_Labs_Tool_to_visually_explore_etymological_relationships_extracted_from_the_English_Wiktionary. It would be nice to have more precise links in etymology sections that link to the correct word. 3. I am not plotting all derived words as of now to clean up a bit the visualization.
Looking forward to your comments!
Ester