Overview of the Lingwo modules

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.

Here is an overview of those modules.

lingwo_entry

• Core module on which all the other modules build
• Defines a "Dictionary entry" content type
• Adds a "Part of speech" field to all entries and makes sure that all entries are unique according to language, part of speech and headword.

• Makes dictionary entries accesible through a lookup path. For example:

    http://example.com/lookup/es-en/coche(noun)
  

  (Links to the Spanish-English dictionary translation of the noun "coche". This example uses the default lookup path "lookup", which can be altered in admin)

• Provides a search block for dictionary entries

lingwo_senses

• Adds a list of multiple "senses" to each entry
• On source entries (ex. the Spanish entry in a Spanish-English dictionary) each sense gets:
  • "Difference" - Describes how this sense is different than the others (can be configured to be a "Definition" instead)
  • "Example" - A single or multi-line example (configured in admin) of the word in use
  • "Relationship" - The relationship between this sense and another entry.
• On translation entries (ex. the English translation of a Spanish entry) each sense gets:
  • "Translation of Example" - Allows you to translate the example into the translation language.
  • "Translations" - A list of translations for the entry
  • "Same As" - Lets you mark this sense as having the same translation as another sense
  • "No equivalent" - Let you mark this senses as having no equivalent in this language (normally only necessary for grammar words in unrelated languages)

lingwo_fields

• Adds arbitrary "fields" to each entry.
• Standard fields can be configured for each part of speech and language (when used with the lingwo_language module).
• Its main purpose is to store additional forms of the word, for example: plural of nouns or conjugation of verbs.
• Can be given JavaScript to calculate the value of standard forms based on rules. This is helpful for languages with a lot of forms. The JavaScript can calculate the forms based on the rules so that users only have to enter the exceptions.
• Allows entries to be found by the dictionary search block via their other forms

lingwo_pron

• Allows entries to attach one or more pronunciation elements
• Includes support for audio (and an ogg vorbis player in Firefox and Chrome)
• Includes an IPA field for transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• Includes a configurable "Tag" field to mark pronunciations as belonging to a particular
  dialect or accent (ex. British vs. American)

lingwo_language

• Allows languages to have seperate definitions of configurable values inside of Lingwo
• Adds a new "Language definition" content type to facilitate creating definitions for each language
• Used by the following modules:
• lingwoentry: To allow different part of speech values per language.
• lingwosenses: To allow different sense relationship values per language.
• lingwofields: To allow different standard fields per language.
• lingwopron: To allow different "Tags" per language.