OSGeo Multilanguage Dictionary

This page is a proposal

Multi-language OSGeo dictionary
The scope is to collect over the years geo* related terms in a multi-language style to facilitate reading/writing in other languages, to help with software internationalization, to help when writing proposals in non-mother-tongue languages (like me who has to write in Italian) etc.

Example (this would be a dictionary software then):

EN: landscape genetics IT: genetica del paesaggio DE: Landschaftsgenetik ...

Since we are an excellent group of experts covering many languages, we could run this as long-term Edu project.

Once a reasonable amount of terms is available, download should be enabled in Docbook or other formats.

Software platform
We could use the Wiktionary software (http://www.wiktionary.org/) and keep it just running. Possibly an OSGeo hacker could also fetch translations from Wikipedia from a handcrafted terms collection of terms to populate an initial dictionary (using the box on the left side which references translations).


 * Wiktionary is just using MediaWiki as all other WikiMedia sites (and this OSGeo wiki too). So, very easy to run.--steko 06:29, 13 November 2007 (EST)

Interested people

 * Markus Neteler
 * Landon Blake (A.K.A. - The Sunburned Surveyor)
 * Marie Silvestre
 * Venkatesh Raghavan

Existing related free dictionaries

 * GRASS Translation Glossary