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WikiFind Dictionary - Bilingual Wikipedia Search

Fast auto-complete style dictionary translation for English, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, French, Spanish and German.

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Features

  • Quickly find that movie title in Japanese or your favourite actor’s name in Chinese
  • Compare both Wikipedia pages on one screen
  • Over 11.7million+ words and phrases

Screenshot showing iPhone WikiFind App

Dependencies

  • Xcode
  • sqlite
  • python

Build

# build with Xcode

Generate Dictionary SQLite Data (optional)

# download wikidata
# ~5.5hrs to download 80gb compressed
wget https://dumps.wikimedia.org/wikidatawiki/entities/latest-all.json.gz -P ./data

./util/builddb.sh

TODO

  • update DB_VERSION during build
  • automate database build, dump to s3