The JMdictDB Project
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New 2018-04-26:
The JMdictDB web interface now provides a page that lets users change
their saved settings (userid, name, email address, password). It is
accessed by clicking one's user name after logging in. An "administrator"
user privilege level has been added from which any user's settings can be
changed.
New 2018-04-01:
The templating system user by JMdictDB web interface was changed from
SimpleTAL, an
implementation of the TAL/TALES attribute language used in Zope, to
Jinja2, a somewhat more readable
and easier to use template language.
New 2015-08-19:
The "Submissions" link at the top of each JMdictDB page now shows an index page
with links to updates made "Today", "Yesterday", each day of this year grouped
by month, and previous years. The apperance is very close to the databaseupdates.html
that Jim Breen was maintaining. Formerly, the Submissions link showed a page of
the entries that were updated "today" only.
New 2015-05-05:
The contact email of the principle developer of JMdictDB has changed; the
various JMdictDB web pages and forms have been updated with the new address
in the footer.
New 2014-09-25:
The EDRDG project's JMnedict Japanese names dictionary is now being maintained
in the JMdictDB database alongside the JMdict dictionary. The official
announcement is
here.
New 2014-08-23:
After a long discussion on the Edict mail list
(here),
new part-of-speech tags have been added to the words だ，くれる and
[*]良い・いい allowing them to be correctly conjugated by the JMdictDB
conjugator. Other minor tweaks have been made such as not showing the
Conjugations link if there are no conjugations available.
Xrefs are now shown in a more consise way: there is only one
"Cross References" section and the direction of each xref is show
with an arrow: right for normal xref, left for a "reverse" xref,
and double-headed arrow for bi-directional (xrefs on two entries,
each pointing to the other).
New 2013-12-23:
The JMdictDB code running on Jim Breen's wwwjdic servers has been updated
to the latest version running under Python3. The new version contains
some enhancements:
- * Word conjugations
- Like the [V] link in wwwjdict but
a completely independent, data-driven implementation. Provides
the conjugated forms in both kanji and kana. Conjugates adjectives
and "da" in addition to verbs.
- * Keyword expansions
- Hoovering your mouse over keywords like
'ok' or 'pn' will now (on most browsers) show the long description
("out-dated or obsolete kana usage" or "pronoun" for those two
examples).
New 2012-11-23:
JMdictDB source code has been updated to run with Python-3.3. The
last Python-2 compatible revision was tagged "py2maint" (2012-06-17).
Because wxPython is still not available for Python-3, the two wxPython
apps in JMdictDB (tools/jmedit.py and python/srch.py) will not run until
a Python-3 compatible version of wxPython is available.
New 2012-06-14:
When the readings or kanji of an entry are reordered, xrefs
in other entries that refer to those readings or kanji are now
updated to refer to the reading/kanji in its new position.
(Formerly the xrefs continue to point to whatever reading of
kanji ended up where the old reading/kanji was.)
A warning is now shown on the pre-submission confirmation page
when xrefs pointing to an edited entry will be deleted because
the sense, reading or kanji they point to has been edited out
of the entry.
Also fixed bug that caused reverse xrefs to sometimes disappear
after an entry was edited.
New 2012-06-03:
A lot of work on Python-3 migration was done in the last couple weeks
and the conclusion was that the migration will not entail any major
difficulty. The main holdup now is waiting for the last two prerequites:
the release of Python-3.3 and a Python3 version of wxPython.
New 2012-04-25:
A number of new "field" and "pos" tags were added by Jim Breen and the
database tables updated accordingly.
New 2010-07-13:
In this email
on the Edict/JMdict list, Jim Breen announced that WWWjdic is now using
JMdictDB for accepting corrections and new entries from WWWjdic users worldwide.
New 2010-06-02:
Call for testers. In
this email
on the Edict/JMdict list, Jim Breen announced
that the WWWjdic testbed at
had been interfaced to the JMdictDB test database
and submission pages. The WWWjdic Suggest button will submit corrections
and new entries using JMdictDB. This is for testing only and changes
will not go into the real WWWjdic.
Caution, the WWWjdic testbed now updates the live JMdict database,
see the 2010-06-15 news item.
New 2010-06-15:
In this email
on the Edict/JMdict list, Jim Breen announced that the WWWjdic testbed system
now updates the live JMdictDB database, from which the JMdict XML,
EDICT, WWWjdic and other EDRDG files are produced.
List members are asked to try making real submissions for inclusion in
WWWjdic and the EDRDG files.
New 2010-06-01:
Call for testers. In
this email
on the Edict/JMdict list, Jim Breen requested testing of the JMdictDB database. URLs are:
Search for an entry:
http://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/srchformq.py?svc=jmtest
Advanced Search (lots more options.)
http://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/srchform.py?svc=jmtest
New Entry:
http://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/edform.py?svc=jmtest&c=1
Quick Overview
http://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/edhelpq.py
Full Help File
http://www.edrdg.org/~jwb/cgi-bin/edhelp.py
Note that this is a test database and changes made will not go into
the real WWWjdic database and may be periodically discarded.
New 2010-05-09:
The JMdictDB database and web interface are now being used by Jim
Breen as the primary repostitory for JMdict data. The distribution
JMdict XML and related files are being produced from the database
data, and new entry and amendment submissions from WWWjdic and
processed into the database. See
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/edict-jmdict/message/3716
for more details.