[users] [ANN] gredig

[Omar Polo]

mbays at sdf.org writes:

> Announcing gredig, a collaborative language learning exercise.
> => gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/gredig/v
>
> It's a simple CGI-based system I hacked together yesterday, running on
> Molly Brown. The idea is to exploit gemini's international and
> altruistic userbase, and its incorporation of utf8, to help us share
> our linguistic expertise.
>
> You submit a sentence in a language you're trying to learn, then
> someone else expert in the language rewrites it, and you learn by
> comparing the two. Everything is fully pseudonymous, based on client
> certificate hashes.
>
> I'd be interested to hear what people make of the interface, and how
> well it works in various clients.
>
> For now at least it's all quite minimalist -- in particular there's no
> system to deal with abuse or free-riding. That could be added if it
> proves necessary, but I'm guessing it won't.

It's really fun, and a clever idea!  Thanks for making it.

The only complaints I can make are that the pseudonyms seems random
sequences of letters and that maybe it could be useful for a reviewer to
add a comment explaining why he/she re-pharesed the sentence in a
certain way.  Oh, and a link from the "sentence page" back to language
page (or to the "home" of the script cgi) would be handy :)

Cheers!