You should post a note about this to Chowhound. Roust the sleeping masses.
mikelove said:
numble said:
An iOS/mobile-compatible interface (an app?) that lets you upload photos might be helpful.
Oh that's a must-have, yes - would dovetail with the work we're doing anyway on embedding media in flashcard databases and server-based flashcard sync.
Right, this would be much easier if you could edit it from the field. And I think on the iPad both a mini (exactly iPhone-sized) English keyboard should coexist with the HWR input field (and possibly also a pinyin keyboard to let you enter characters that way instead of switching the HWR input around.
I think this should be done in general, not just for the Wiki editing. The iPad's portrait keyboard is way too big for me to use as efficiently as I can use the iPhone's keyboard, so it could easily share space with the HWR input.
mikelove said:
numble said:
Would this be focused solely on Chinese menu items? Or include Chinese names for Western foods? Chinese names for food ingredients, vegetables, herbs, condiments and/or animals/animal parts?
I think we'd want to mostly limit it to things you'd see on a menu,
I think it would be useful to not limit it to menu items even at first; at least it should include detailed info on ingredients.
mikelove said:
but for general-purpose vocabulary like the names of animals and ingredients we're probably better off relying on an existing dictionary.
Well, there's always Wikipedia for that.
Entropy said:
I had the idea of a Chinese food wiki a long time ago, but it seems like it would be more useful inside an app such as Pleco.
The idea actually goes back to a time before I learned to read, meaning sometime in 2009. It's *much* more appealing to me now since I think actual progress could be made in a short time. So, not "inside" Pleco but with eStroke and Pleco in the editor's toolbox.
mikelove said:
Entropy said:
I'm pretty sure I suggested being able to add pictures to flash cards or dictionary entries precisely so I could add pictures of food.
You did indeed, but it'd be nice to have something more centralized and potentially comprehensive, and something that other people who were interested in the subject but didn't own iPhones could participate in.
Right--something more comprehensive, centralized, accessible, and *online*. I originally suggested this precisely because you're opposed to going online to look something up, so I wanted to put it into Pleco as I needed to. If I'm going through all the trouble of cutting and pasting into a Web browser, I want to then save the results in the new flashcard.
mikelove said:
Entropy said:
But it *would* be nice if Pleco could look things up in *online* resources such as Wikis.
Still not wild about that idea, though we are toying with including two little online resource links in 2.2.2.
So this Wiki would be on the net, at your website, but since Pleco doesn't just let you look things up online, you couldn't actually use live OCR to look things up in the Wiki unless you'd copied the latest version to the app.
And of course, since your dining companions also can't just get the latest version online, you would need a mechanism to share your revisions using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. :lol:
~ Kiran <entropy@io.com>