Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wiktionary/Search in a lexicon

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Search in a lexicon

• Problem: Search engine is not made for dictionary needs.
• Who would benefit: Contributors and readers
• Proposed solution: Having an internal anagram and advanced search such as the one we have in French Wiktionary, to find anagrams but also words with a specific sound or with a sequence of letter and a grammatical class for example. It could be based on a parsed dump to have part of speech distinction as well (only in nouns, only in verbs, etc.).
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• Proposer: Lyokoï (talk) 16:07, 10 November 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

• I feel this proposal would mainly target readers, as there is plenty website that reuse Wiktionary database to offer such service of adapted search tool. It is a real need. A UX study on that should provide more evidence of this. Noé (talk) 11:47, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

  The pronunciation-based researches would need to develop an ETL to parse each Wiktionary differently and store each word pronunciation into a new table with an index. FYI, I have already created a draft project which does this extraction in PHP from the fr.wikt and en.wikt XML dumps, along with languages codes and grammatical classes. But I didn't publish the code for now, I'm still choosing a front-end interface to browse these tables. JackPotte (talk) 13:59, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

  Hey salut JackPotte, any news on this project? Do you plan to work on it or should we propose it again this year? Noé (talk) 18:21, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

  I haven't a lot of free time, so maybe both. JackPotte (talk) 19:51, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Voting

•  Support Noé (talk) 21:43, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support As proposer Lyokoï (talk) 12:36, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Manseng (talk) 13:01, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Unsui (talk) 13:41, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Nemo Le Poisson (talk) 15:31, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Otourly (talk) 16:06, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support--Pom445 (talk) 16:08, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Hildepont (talk) 16:59, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support — WikiLucas (🖋️) 19:30, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Pamputt (talk) 21:26, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Sadads (talk) 21:43, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Wargo (talk) 23:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Libcub (talk) 08:53, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Jpgibert (talk) 11:35, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Sgd. Hasley 17:08, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Yoursmile (talk) 04:20, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Skirienko (talk) 13:13, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support DemonDays64 (talk) 14:44, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Noel baran (talk) 15:34, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 15:43, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support A garbage person (talk) 16:09, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Romuald 2 (talk) 16:15, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Latisc (talk) 16:15, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support 游魂 17:04, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Trey314159 (talk) 17:11, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Sintakso (talk) 17:42, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Vriullop (talk) 18:19, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Waddie96 (talk) 18:49, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Harshil169 (talk) 13:11, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Kusurija (talk) 14:50, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support MarcoSwart (talk) 16:26, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support DaraDaraDara (talk) 20:33, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Curious (talk) 22:21, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Marxav (talk) 10:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Romainbehar (talk) 12:52, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Even Soundex search (tailored for each language, of course) would be nice. DCDuring (talk) 18:35, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Sebleouf (talk) 18:38, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Jberkel (talk) 23:28, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
•  Support - TheDaveRoss (talk) 15:36, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 17:51, 2 December 2019 (UTC)