[Foundation-l] Latest board resolutions

Tue Jul 25 17:32:44 UTC 2006

Hoi Jeff,
WiktionaryZ aims to eat very much it's own dogfood. When there is a good
localisation done for MediaWiki and when this is maintained, you have all
the core stuff. The rest is a matter of making sure that WiktionaryZ will
have translations for the DefinedMeanings that will be used for the labels
that will eventually be used.

The words that will be used are things like language names, linguistic
terminology like noun, verb etc.

Yes, we aim to support all languages. The Neapolitan language and the
Lombard language is already supported because of the interest we have for
Italian minor languages. Cherokee and Uto-Aztecan are also welcome.. Adding
languages is at this stage something that a developer has to do. When there
is an interface so that we can easily add more languages, we will once some
criteria have been met. One thing we need is work done on the localisation
of MediaWiki.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 7/25/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
>
> Erik Moeller wrote:
>
> >On 7/25/06, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On 7/26/06, James Hare <messedrocker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Good luck with the raising of the $60,000!
> >>>
> >>>Will WiktionaryZ eventually replace the current Wiktionary?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>It's too soon to answer that since the new software is very much still
> >>in the beta phase. What I'm hoping is that the current Wiktionary
> >>communities will try it out and get involved in making that decision.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Pre-alpha is more like it. ;-) We're not nearly feature-complete (only
> >terminological functionality for now), we haven't done a systematic
> >security and quality review of the code yet, and we're not up to date
> >with the latest MediaWiki. Still, things have been progressing nicely:
> >We now have a fairly flexible data and user interface model, are
> >working on a generic versioning layer, and have some interesting top
> >secret projects as well ;-). Most importantly, people have recently
> >been given the ability to add new expressions/meanings, and started to
> >systematically do so for a list of 1000 English words:
> >
> >http://wiktionaryz.org/Portal:eng/List_of_1000_basic_English_words
> >
> >I'm very happy that Wikimedia is willing to host the project. Let's
> >discuss the exact operational parameters at Wikimania.
> >
> >Erik
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> Erik,
>
> Is there somewhere the wiktionary language/messages files are available
> so I can translate them into
> Cherokee and Uto-Aztecan for the Wiktionary and Wikibooks esspecially. I
> can hand hack them to
> map to the pages, but I noticed the Wikiversity stuff has a lot of
> additions.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
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