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We are currently working on adding term definitions from Wiktionary to definitions.
As for Wikipedia articles as a separate list (e.g. encyclopedic articles) – we might consider this after some evaluation.
As an alternative this could be part of “definitions” with special list filter – dictionary or encyclopedia.
Please use comments for your thoughts on this.
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We are having an idea to implement multiple lists for favorites.
It would be possible to create personal list of adjectives and name it “adjectives”.
Would it be beneficial?
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The apps (both iOS and Android) will have user favorites as part of new accounts later this year.
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We do have this functionality in plans. However at this stage we are focused on thesaurus entries and making sure that we deliver this part right.
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We started the development of ‘thesaurus’ page that will show top:
- synonyms
- antonyms
- related terms
- example sentencesIt will be shown to some users during test period while we check how it affects users and the navigational patterns.
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At the moment our position is that American and English spellings have different usage based on demographics and locality. Hence the choice of best suited terms might be different. Please discuss…
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I have an idea! I love Power Thesaurus so much and I don’t know how hard this would be to implement in terms of website development and technical stuff like that, but I think i might have a system that (in theory) would work :)
maybe there could be an ability to filter the combined terms by whether they were added as synonyms etc for the american vs british spelling for example?
• First maybe, in setting up an account, I can set my preferred language as ‘English (UK)’
• So if i search ‘colour’, the title of the results would be “colour (or ‘color’)”
**maybe there could be a flag next to each spelling variation to symbolise where the word is used (see ‘ https://www.thefreedictionary.com/‘ and their ios app).
** a word like ‘food’ would have icons for BOTH the UK and US flag next to them
**these flag icons may be visible in the list of results, or maybe they are hidden behind a pop-up ‘information’ icon.• Then, the entries listed will combine those added from both the UK and US spelling variations.
• If both ‘behaviour’ and ‘behavior’ are in that list (of synonyms, for example), the entry for ‘behaviour’ may:
- show up with a little icon that gives extra pop-up info about there being an alternative US spelling
**maybe with an ability to go to that entry in current list or to open the individual page for the US spelling of that word.- have an info icon that has a pop-up box that says “This is the British (UK) English spelling. Would you like to see the American (US) English alternative spelling?”
**and then it opens the page for that spelling [the user may want to favourite the US spelling of the word] or shows it in the list.
**revealing it in the list after clicking on this could allow the user to add any tags to describe the American English meaning of the word, if it is different from the British English word.— maybe, if I have nominated ‘British English’ in my account settings, words that are using an alternative US English spelling will be hidden in the results, even if the results are synonyms for a word with a US/UK alternative spelling. Flag icons on the entries will show whether the word is used in both US and UK english.
**In this case, an info box may appear for entries in the list with a US alternative spelling, that give an option to ‘reveal all entries with US-specific spelling’. The resultant list will be flagged with either US&UK flag, UK flag only, or US flag only. (continued below) -
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• The ‘upvotes/downvotes’ for entries which have been added as synonyms for both the US and UK spelling of the ‘title word’ may be combined to show the ‘net’ up/downvotes, OR (maybe to avoid some words that by chance were only added as synonyms for the US or UK spelling being pushed down the list), only the vote count for the synonyms originally added for the UK spelling will be shown, as I selected UK English as my language.
**for example, if ‘hue’ has 10 votes as a synonym for ‘colour’, and 10 votes for ‘color’, and ‘pigment’ was by chance only added as a synonym for ‘color’, with 5 votes.....the combined listing for the entry ‘colour (or ‘color’) will show 10 points for ‘hue’ and 5 points for ‘pigment’- rather than 20 points for ‘hue’ and 5 points for ‘pigment’ (pushing it down the list due to lower votes)
• A filtering option (like the tag filtering system) could be able to choose whether the list is a combination of the synonyms for both ‘US English’ and ‘UK English’ spellings (both color and colour), or only what synonyms were added to the UK English variation (‘colour’), or the US English variation (‘color’) (this would hide the entry ‘pigment’ in the UK-variation-only [‘colour’] results, but if different UK/US spellings had different synonyms/meanings, this would fix this issue.
• If I have nominated UK English as my language, my up/downvotes on words in the list will automatically be counted as votes based on how strong i think the synonyms are according to the UK variant of the word (I will vote on the synonyms based on what i believe to be a good match for ‘colour’). If a user filters results by the UK variant, ‘colour’ only, the vote count on the words I upvoted will reflect how all UK-English users voted on those words, but the upvote will also add to the ‘universal english’ total.
*the ‘universal english’ total should show strong synonyms according to both US and UK english users, and more dialect-specific or ‘slang’ words will be further down the combined US&UK english list.
**an alternative filtering system would be ‘according to US-English users’ and ‘according to UK-English users’. Filtering by the UK English option may show greater strength in terms of votes in words that would be considered ‘non-American’ or ‘slang’ words that are more commonly used in British-English speaking countries.
• With this system in place, adding a new entry could allow you to specify whether the word was a UK or US spelling variant, or universal to both US/UK english. If the person doing the entry is unsure, other users will be able to specify on the entry later-on.
• As time goes on, the lists and ratings will reflect more truthfully what synonyms are ‘strong’ according to all English speakers.
Alternatively, votes from both UK and US variants could be combined- possibly ‘drowning out’ the words added only to one spelling variant, at first. However, as time goes on, strong words with less votes will move towards the top of the list to create a more accurate picture.