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OmegaWiki is a wiki-based project. Its aim is to bring together information that is lexicological, terminological or thesaurus-like.

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History

The idea of OmegaWiki was born out of frustration with Wiktionary. Many Wiktionary projects worked together in using templates to indicate the non-language specific information. The labels of this information were indicated using templates. It proved useful; much information was copied from one project to another. It became problematic when updates happened. It had to be done manually in all participating projects. Given that the ISO 639-6 recognises in between 7,000 and 8,000 languages, it just does not scale.

Technology

The requirements were to be able to update information once, and have the resulting information available for everyone. To make this possible, it would be required to have user interfaces for all languages and, in order to store the information once, to use a relational database for the information.

At the same time, we want to maintain the functionality of a Wiki and, given the background, the functionality of MediaWiki. On Meta there was a proposal for something called Wikidata. As a dare, it was asked if Wikidata could do the Ultimate Wiktionary. The answer was affirmative, a sponsor was found in Kennisnet and the project was born. Meanwhile a collaboration with the company Knewco has given an additional level of activity to the project, and several existing terminology systems are presently tested in OmegaWiki format

Ultimate Wiktionary

Ultimate Wiktionary (UW) is the name of the development project; one of the key objectives is to keep the functionality of Wikidata cleanly from UW. The reason for this is that Wikidata can be expected to be used for many more projects that can and will be as ambitious as UW is.

When you download the OmegaWiki tarball and install it on a computer of your own, you have your own Ultimate Wiktionary installation. OmegaWiki is this project.

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