OmegaWiki

Description

OmegaWiki is a wiki-based project. Its aim is to bring together information that is lexicological, terminological or thesaurus-like.

• Links

• http://omegawiki.org - main site
• http://www.omegawiki.org/OLPC_Children%27s_Dictionary - OmegaWiki is creating a dictionary specifically for the OLPC project.
• Omegawiki-subproject including functionality and content for usage on OLPC-Machines [1]
• first parts of the API (beta) see "wikidata" at http://kantoor.edia.nl/wikidata/api.php

• Languages

• http://www.omegawiki.org/Languages - list of languages
• language portal Peru http://www.omegawiki.org/Portal:PE
• language portal Uruguay http://www.omegawiki.org/Portal:UY

• Size

• see collection info page at http://www.omegawiki.org/Collections/OLPC

Formats

• Formats materials are currently in

• Wiki (mediawiki extension)

• Scripting (any scripting needed to convert it from curent packaging)

Curator Info

Group: Reference (dictionaries)

Group coordinator: None

Curators: Gerard Meijssen

Allottable size

Assessment

Scope (subjects, ages, other)

• linguistics, language-learning
• all ages

Completeness (comprehensiveness for given topic and audience)

• Completeness unknown. Complete enough to be usable, and development is in progress.

Multilingualism (specifically es, pt, en, ar)

• Excellent. This was the original intent of the design.

Quality (incl. suitability for audience)

• High quality - being designed specifically for OLPC audience.

Freeness (license and format)

• http://www.omegawiki.org/Licensing - Content usable under either GNU FDL 1.2+ and Creative Commons Attribution 2.5+ (user chooses which license to use content under). Contributions are automatically licensed under both.

Comments, Tags, and Ratings

XO

School library

How to Add

• local usage on laptops might need SQL queries so perhaps use somehow SQLite