From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How to make Emacs popular again. Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 19:07:40 +0300 Message-ID: <20201001160740.GA4797@protected.rcdrun.com> References: <3201a9fe-de19-d553-0be1-d379f182fd47@yandex.ru> <84273aa2-24a9-7584-18b9-03a5ac783d62@yandex.ru> <835z7vjrg3.fsf@gnu.org> <20201001140819.GN4797@protected.rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30470"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/1.14.0 (2020-05-02) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: James Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 01 18:16:42 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kO1G6-0007qq-8W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 18:16:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39184 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kO1G5-0000mu-AQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37244) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kO17U-00068h-SL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:37359) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kO17S-0008Vn-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 12:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.34.166]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000EDCAC.000000005F75FECF.00004093; Thu, 01 Oct 2020 09:07:43 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/01 08:21:28 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:256872 Archived-At: * James Lu [2020-10-01 18:14]: > Has anyone checked if Wiktionary's quality is good? > > In my experience, Oxford dictionary are better than Meriam-Webster's > dictionary. Maybe linguists could answer. What would be important is to have Wiktionary in the RFC 2229 format, just as mentioned on that site, but I could not find the database file. We have plethora of free dictionaries, and Wiktionary and others outside of the scope of that format. Important is that we have it free, it cannot be perfect, we can work on it through time.