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Welcome to the wordhore wiki!

Main goals

• Create a Boggle clone for all sufficiently digitally resourced languages.
• Create a Boggle clone generator that creates a well playable set of dice of any board size.
• Create a server that will compute ever improving dice sets for all languages we choose to support. This server will work on distributed client architecture using amqp.

Lesser goals

• Create or find and improve wiktionary parses and create a feedback loop with it - dictionaries are compiled from wiktionary, players while playing improve wiktionary. Release that parser open source, let it export in all useful formats.
• Create a front end playable on and off line.
• Make it easy for every player to create their own physical board of a given language and size.

Technologies

• python (let's try python34! There will be lots of computation, maybe PyPy?)
• rabbitmq
• pyramid
• sqlalchemy
• py.test + factory boy
• git (modified nvie's succesful branching model - no develop, we'll work on master until first release)

Challenges

Each will have a task or tasks cerated in the GitHub Issue System.

• Wiktionary parser - wait till you see mediawiki templating language
• Designing the architecture. ** How to easily allow people to lend their processing power for computations of best possible letter placement on dice (lots is needed). - Client architecture. Auth. Scaling. Hosting. ** One package or many small packages? What to do with dictionaries, they will be huge.
• Finding texts for generator training - what is a standard text, how much data is enough?
• Speed (we'll be OK but improving the algorithms by tiny bit should lend enormous gains)
• Documentation and project development - how, who? Let's start small and disorganised.
• Linguistic variety - we'll start with some simple languages but there will lots of challenges depending on different alphabets and so on.