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add a lot of bilingual dictionaries using omegawiki #30

Open andyjh92 opened 7 years ago

andyjh92 commented 7 years ago

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

humenda commented 7 years ago

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?

humenda commented 7 years ago

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 for a more in-depth discussion.

humenda commented 7 years ago

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.

bansp commented 7 years ago

(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.

humenda commented 7 years ago

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.

bansp commented 7 years ago

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.