Comments on: Kids simple dictionary…not as simple as I thought

By: Nils Peterson

Nils Peterson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:27:14 +0000

Karen,
I added an entry to the Dictionary Team (http://www.k12opened.com/wiki/index.php/Dictionary_team) page. I hope this can get going. Let me know if it gets rolling nils_peterson@wsu.edu

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One small step for man » Blog Archive » OpenEd Week “X” — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:11:28 +0000

[...] student Karen Fasimpaur has proposed a project that I think fits the notions above when she writes (outside of class!?) about her project idea to create a kids dictionary. This looks like an open [...]

By: karen

karen — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:06:42 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Mel. Perhaps we could incorporate some of the OLPC language correspondence work into our kids dictionary once the English part is done.

Wiktionary has a Simple English dictionary but nothing specifically for kids.

As we get going on this, we’d love to have the OLPC content staff and volunteers be a part of our community.

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:05:27 +0000

There was (not sure of active status right now) a dictionary project started by some OLPC volunteers; the point was to have a table of correspondence for basic words in as many languages as possible (so instead of having to make thousands of language-a-to-language-b dictionaries you could just reference the table). http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:ZdenekBroz/OLPC-Dictionary

There’s also omegawiki (http://www.omegawiki.org/Main_Page) and wiktionary (http://wiktionary.org/) – wikijunior is a subset of wikibooks specializing in books for kids, I’m not sure whether wiktionary has a corresponding subproject (dictionary for kids) but if it doesn’t, your idea might fit in nicely here.