I might not be understanding what you've done very well, Magnus. A "PD
word list" is a public domain word list?
I would say it's not the case that each word in a list of (English?) words
corresponds to a potential Wikipedia article. Usually, article titles are
combinations of words, for one thing; and very many ordinary words (e.g.,
"wasn't") do not correspond to encyclopedia article topics.
So, unless again I'm not understanding (which is entirely possible), I
really don't see what the point would be of including such a list. This
isn't to say there *isn't* a point, just that I don't understand what it
is.
There's one disadvantage I can think of though--it might encourage too
many people to think of Wikipedia as a dictionary. (Such a list would be
a great resource for a Wiki dictionary, if anyone ever wanted to make one.
Larry
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Magnus Manske wrote:
I downloaded several PD word lists from the web and
had them unified and
converted into 26 (A-Z) files, containing a total of 304.946 words in more
than 5 MB. The words are already formatted in [[Wiki style]].
Even though wikipedia will never be finished, basically this list should be
our ultimate goal, right? So, I'd like to know
- Is there a list of all (or many) words already somewhere on wikipedia? I
couldn't find one.
- Should I upload these files to, say, [[List of all words/A]] to [[List of
all words/Z]]? Or is it just a waste of memory?
Magnus
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