Installing and configuring Lingwo

Lingwo is a small family of modules for creating an online, collaborative dictionary, focusing on translating dictionaries (ex. Spanish-English dictionary) which are maintained collaboratively by a team, like a wiki.

This document contains detailed instructions on setting up Lingwo for the first time.

Installation

• First, enable the "lingwo_entry" module.
• Next, if you want to implement a translating dictionary:
  • Enable the "locale" and "translation" modules.
  • Go to "Admin >> Site configuration >> Languages" and add any languages you need.
  • Next, we need to make the "Dictionary entry" content type translatable:
    • Go to "Admin >> Content management >> Content types"
    • Click "edit" by the "Dictionary entry" type
    • Expand "Workflow settings" and change "Multilingual support" to "Enabled, with translation"
    • Click "Save content type"
  • If you are using the views module, you may want to consider disabling the "dictionary" view and enabling the "dictionary_multiple" view.
• If you want to using Lingwo to manage multiple senses on each entry, enable the "lingwo_senses" module.

Now, you can create content of the "Entry" type and translate it using Drupal's built-in translation mechanisms.

Configuration

You can find configuration for all the Lingwo modules at:

  Admin >> Site configuration >> Lingwo dictionary settings

I recommend taking a look at what is configurable right away.

The next step?

Next, take a look at the other sub-modules included in Lingwo and decide which of them you'll need to build your dictionary!