Tomer Chachamu wrote:
On 25/07/05, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Tomer Chachamu wrote:
Actually, ideally every word would have a
"search name" which is
worked out based on the language. It would only contain the compulsory
characters, with a certain decision on e.g. German ä ö ü (to transform
them in one direction or the other). It could also decompose all
precomposed characters into sets of characters. This is a little bit
like how some databases store the soundex index.
I think this would handle most cases. I certainly agree that redirects
are a necessary technical feature for the rarer cases.
Hoi,
Redirects will not exist in the UW. There is no need for them. Either
they are correct spelling or they are not. If we MUST have a situation
where links into UW need to be maintained, the words will go into
Misspelling. Consequently the information will be utterly different from
what it had before and consequently it cannot be maintained that the
exterior party will have the URL point to the same information. Because
in stead of a word with a meanin and all the other stuff it will now
give a "You are wrong". This will be handled either at the Spelling
level or at the Misspelling level.
There can be more than one correct spelling, as Andrew Dunbar
detailed. Where exactly is the database design?
Obviously there can be more than one correct spelling for the same
language. Different orthografies need to be identified as such ..
The design can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_data_design including
an ERD and some notes on its usage can be found here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_decisions_on_its_usage
Then again, a user may want to see only a limited
number of languages,
and consequently what is shown will also not be the same for everyone.
The word "dei" and "die" or both common typos, they are but for
different languages. So what are we going to show when someone asks for
dei of [or] die ??
ult.wiktionary.org/wikt/dei: like current wiktionary i.e. list of all
meanings in all languages.
ult.wiktionary.org/wikt/dei/de: german meaning only
The URL as you state do not take into account the effect that filtering
will have. Filtering will be specified on a user level. You may filter
to only include zu de fr and xh or nl it nds fy. It just depends on user
settings in the userinterface. So your suggested URL's are a bit off
with what is proposed.
Thanks,
GerardM