Spelling Dictionary

Collaborative spelling dictionary building tool

Github Repository : Collaborative Spelling Dictionary

Synopsis

Spelling dictionaries for the major languages of the world (English, Italian, French) help make Wikipedia articles in these languages more readable and professional and provide an opportunity for participation in improving spelling. Many languages don’t have spelling dictionaries. The project aims at developing a collaborative dictionary which shall also have an additional feature of checking spellings of the words. This is to be achieved with the collaborative efforts of the mediawiki community using crowd-sourcing. This can be done as a MediaWiki extension integrated with VisualEditor, and possibly using Wikidata as a backend. We need to create something that's useful as VE module. The essence of the project shall aim to develop an admin panel where the administrator/moderator will be able to manage the submissions: verify the suggested spellings of the words, accept them, reject them, filter and build new versions of the spelling dictionary upon them. A simple start to the project could be by starting with a simple list of words.

Deliverables

Weekly progress reports.

Tables

suggestions

User	Word	meaning	verified (no by default)	related terms (phrases, synonyms,antonyms)

admin_panel form

Word	meaning

Accept	Reject

Reason for rejecting

If a word is accepted, verified is set to true, and the word is removed from ‘suggestions’ and added to ‘words’
words

Word	meaning	related terms(phrases,synonyms,antonyms)

If rejected, the word is removed from suggestions and added to review_language
For rejected words: add the word to review_language table, where other contributors could have a look and suggest meanings and spelling
review_language

Word	suggested meaning	Reason for rejecting

Any word from table review_language can be re-edited, and re-suggested, and again added to the suggestions table
Words page (visible to admin only):

This page will facilitate editing of already added words. Here, admins can see all the words that are in the dictionary and edit them(change/remove/put into review). If a word is put into review, then it will go to suggestions table and will be treated as a new entry for the dictionary.

Detailed Timeline

Week Number	Week	Task
0	Community bonding period	Get to know the mentors, read up the coding practices followed in the organisation and get well acquainted with the organisation. Discuss with mentors and finalize the word addition process and database structures. Finalise the technologies and resources to be used. We have to keep in mind that the overall experience is secure, easy to understand, fast and up to the mark. Create the basic structure of the application
1	9th December-15th December	Create the database and the tables for the various languages to record suggestions and the verified words
2	16th December-22nd December	Write the required wiki pages for the contributors to get started
3 & 4	23rd December-5th January	Create an admin panel with an elementary GUI to accept or reject words
5 & 6	6th January-19th January	Improve the interface of the admin panel as per the standards of mediawiki pages
7	20th January-26th January	Add more functionality to the admin panel: send mail to the user to ask for improvements in the suggestion(if word is rejected)
8 & 9	27th January-10th February	Create a panel to handle the words in table review_language in order to enhance contribution
10	11th February-17th February	Implement the words page for admins as stated above
11	18th February-24th February	Debug the code for errors
12	25th February-3rd March	Complete documentation as well as unit testing on existing projects
13	4th March-9th March	Pencil Down State: Finishing up the project documentation of the project.