add a lot of bilingual dictionaries using omegawiki

Question

add a lot of bilingual dictionaries using omegawiki

andyjh92 opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

Hi,

[1] shows how to create bilingual dictionaries using omegawiki as a source. [2] uses these dictionaries for example. Could you add these dictionaries?

Regards, Andy

[1] http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Getting_bilingual_dictionaries_from_OmegaWiki
[2] http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/ http://dictionarymid.sourceforge.net/dictionaries/dictsBinlingualsOmegaWiki.html

Sebastian Humenda · Answer 1 · Tue Jul 11 2017 18:12:36 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Dictionaries from this source are not of very high quality, IIRC. Apart from that, OmegaWiki is discontinued and DictionaryForMIDs not very active, recently. The interest in these dictionaries is very low. Since it's the second dictionary source you are proposing, would you have interest in writing an importer for it? I would be willing to help you getting started. Please keep reporting more dictionary sources, it is really just this particular source that *I* am not really keen on. Opinions might vary. @piotr, @micha137, what do you think?

Sebastian Humenda · Answer 2 · Tue Jul 11 2017 18:16:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

One minor correction: I didn't see the other issues until now. It's not the second source that you are proposing :-). In this case, your help would be even more welcome! Plese feel free to join our [mailing list](https://sourceforge.net/projects/freedict/lists/freedict-beta) for a more in-depth discussion.

Sebastian Humenda · Answer 3 · Tue Jul 18 2017 23:36:50 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm closing this issue, because I think we shouldn't consider OMEGA wiki. AFAIK, they wanted to merge with Wiktionary and we have importer scripts from WikDict.com for this.

Piotr Banski · Answer 4 · Tue Jul 18 2017 23:44:13 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

(Nearly?) each wiktionary project is a separate entity, so it's not obvious that omegawiki is going to merge into all wiktionaries, and I wouldn't hasten so much to close this ticket.

The concept-to-form organisation of omegawiki could indeed yield some pretty exotic language pairs, potentially.

Sebastian Humenda · Answer 5 · Tue Jul 18 2017 23:55:17 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I would say that Wiktionary has already outperformed OMEGA wiki for quite a few language pairs. Given how active people are, I would say the same will be true for less popular language pairs. Feel free to reopen the issue, but I have no ambitions whatsoever to work on this.

Piotr Banski · Answer 6 · Wed Jul 19 2017 00:07:00 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

You would say, or you know? :-) A few wiktionaries are very good, others got closed for dormancy (that surely improves the overall statistics).

These tickets are not necessarily for you personally to take up, especially if you're planning on broadening the scale of the project. So thanks for your OK to re-open, it's better to have the resource visible.