COLLABORATIVE SPELLING DICTIONARY
A MEDIAWIKI EXTENSION
FOSSASIA 2016
Ankita Shukla
- @tricksy0207
- ankitashukla707@gmail.com
- Volunteer, MediaWiki
Key Idea
- A spelling dictionary for every language
Umm, okay! BUT
what is a "spelling dictionary"?
- Important for the lesser popular languages
Motivation
- Make information available to everyone
- Remove the language barriers - by promoting translation
Let Me Translate That For You!
Ouch!
Arghhhh!
Too many red lines!
How Did I Make It?
- Portals/Design
- User - To add spellings
- Admin - Verify added spellings, delete, add, edit spellings
- Storing spellings - created a table for the extension
- Used MediaWiki Admin Special Page for Admin dashboard
Challenges Faced
- How to fill words in dictionary?
Advantages
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Spelling-repositories for lesser popular languages
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Aim: Improved translation environment, thus articles and pages translated to more languages
Future Work
- Installing it on a server for access to everyone
- Adding valid spellings in database
- Integrating it to Visual Editor - for real time editing support
- "Lesser frustration, more translation"
Hey, I'd Like To Help!
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- Improve the Extension
- Add new features
- Integrate with your wiki
- Add spellings
- Be Language Moderator
- Help in Outreach
Learn More
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Extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/
Extension:SpellingDictionary
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Contribute: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/q/
project:mediawiki/extensions/SpellingDictionary,n,z
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Develop own: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/
How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker/Extension_Writing_Tutorial