See <a href="http://www.omegawiki.org/Main_Page">http://www.omegawiki.org/Main_Page</a> -- these folks are working on the child's dictionary for the olpc and also have an interface that can be accessed programmatically.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 3, 2008 12:34 PM, drew einhorn <<a href="mailto:drew.einhorn@gmail.com">drew.einhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd really like to see you import dictionaries.<br><br>And mash them up into a big multilingal dictionary with links to<br>pictures, sound, and video.<br>Add word frequency statistics.<br>And difficulty levels dynamically assigned like
<a href="http://freerice.com" target="_blank">freerice.com</a><br><br>And present it all in a wiki so we can expand dictionary in languages we speak.<br><br>A multi lingual <a href="http://freerice.com" target="_blank">freerice.com
</a> style activity would be amazing. where<br>the student picks<br>a language or a pair of languages.<br><br>Many people could write their thesis analyzing the statistics that could<br>be gathered from using the activity.
<br><br>Especially if we can capture some demographic info without compromising privacy.<br><br>I'm sure you will find amazing variations on these ideas I haven't thought of.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><br>On Jan 2, 2008 9:56 PM, David Farning <
<a href="mailto:dfarning@gmail.com">dfarning@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hello all,<br>><br>> I would like to thank you all for the great work you are doing with<br>> the laptop.<br>><br>> First, a real life reaction to the laptop. I bought the laptop for
<br>> myself under the g1g1 program. I tested it for a few days for before<br>> deciding that the xo was too valuable to sit in my office.<br>><br>> I gave it to my 5th grade niece for Christmas. It was a big hit.
<br>><br>> How does this relate to the list? When I saw her again for new years,<br>> she was showing all of her cousins how to use wikipedia. The kids<br>> spent the rest of the day sledding and seaching wikipedia. How
<br>> amazing is that.<br>><br>> This positive response has encouraged me to get involved with the<br>> project. My interest is helping create the library.<br>><br>> I have been looking at the process of bringing content into the library.
<br>> I am interested in generalizing wiki splice to<br>> allow it to import item from different sources and automatically<br>> create .xols.<br>><br>> My basic premises are that content curators should not have to worry
<br>> about the details of making a bundle. Programmers should worry about<br>> the content in the bundle.<br>><br>> I have started rewritting wikisplice in more generalized manner so that<br>> it can take different types of input and build the bundles
<br>> automatically.<br>><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> A interesting development is mwlib found at<br>> <a href="http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki" target="_blank">http://code.pediapress.com/wiki/wiki</a>
that is sponsored by the<br>> wikimedia foundation. It is a library for parsing raw mediawiki text.<br>><br>> I will hopefully have some prototype code ready for submission in a few days.<br>><br>> Thank<br>
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