Collaborative Project - Words

[TonyM]

Folks,

Join our Collaborative Project - Words

Recent collaborative discussions and illustrated some interesting methods and challenges for our community. Words and Numbers.

I thought I would initiate a couple to stimulate activity from the community, join in and contribute if you can otherwise lurkers are fine.

AIM: Develop and improve the ability for people to interrogate large word lists with TiddlyWiki

Inspiration: Whatever your language as a rule you most likely use a maximum of a 2,000 to 45,000 word vocabulary, yet word lists are freely available with more. By importing them into tiddlywiki is becomes possible for you to interrogate these words in a number of ways and for a number of reasons;

• Help you practice fo Scrabble, make or do crossword puzzles
• Make a Wiki based game of [[Boggle|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle]] (buy the game to pay for the intellectual property)
• Learn a language by searching for base, root, prefix suffix and more
• Build a cryptography language (for fun)
• Perhaps special lists geometrical shapes, chemical or biological names
  
• Build a set of data sources we can share in out community already prepared for use in TiddlyWiki
• Just enjoy the love of language

Large lists present possible performance issues, but as demonstrated recently 66,000 words are feasible and I expect even larger numbers with the right design. Word lists can be in a single data tiddler you interrogate or a single tiddler once you wish to add information to a given word. Canned search strings that may interest people would also be fun, like all english words prefixed or containing polly.

Where do we start?

• Where do we source some good word lists? are they maintained
• How do we best import them?
• Create a custom search that first looks for tiddlers then looks in a data tiddler
• Provide an easy to use Regex or other wild card search with guidance

Lets get started Logophiles.
A person who is a lover of words.

How many philes are there?

[TonyM]

I found this source of english word lists, including one IN JSON

https://github.com/dwyl/english-words

• Did you know before the first dictionary word lists were very popular?
• They did not include the meaning but listed the words you needed to know if you wanted to be part of the aristocracy or royal court.
• Give a large word list you could check those you know and learn words you do not know.
• Lets have a link that searches for a given word in other databases.

Regards

Tony