Komputeko

Komputeko.net
	The English home page of Komputeko.net showing a search box
Type of site	Multilingual online dictionary
Available in	Esperanto, English, Dutch, French, German
Created by	E@I
Website	komputeko.net
Commercial	No
Current status	active
Content license	CC BY-SA

Last updated April 15, 2019

Cover of the Komputeko book, edition 2008 Cover of Komputeko book, edition 2008.jpg — Cover of the Komputeko book, edition 2008

Komputeko is an online project of the non-profit youth organization E@I (“Education@Internet”) with the goal of bringing together parallel computer terminology from various dictionaries in order to facilitate access to and comparison between different translations and thus promote exact use of language and counteract the (often sloppy) usage of linguistic borrowings from American English. Komputeko is short for the Esperanto noun phrase "Prikomputila terminokolekto", meaning "collection of computer terms". The dictionary is written in five languages (Esperanto, English, Dutch, German and French), and there are plans to expand it into other languages. A preliminary version with a few other languages already exists.^[1]

E@I ("Education@Internet") is an international youth non-profit organization that hosts educational projects and meetings to support intercultural learning and the usage of languages and internet technologies.

Esperanto is the most widely spoken constructed international auxiliary language. It was created in the late 19th century by L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist. In 1887, he published a book detailing the language, Unua Libro, under the pseudonym Dr. Esperanto. Esperanto translates to English as "one who hopes".

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and eventually became a global lingua franca. It is named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to the area of Great Britain that later took their name, as England. Both names derive from Anglia, a peninsula in the Baltic Sea. The language is closely related to Frisian and Low Saxon, and its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse, and to a greater extent by Latin and French.

Development of Komputeko

The Esperanto dictionaries and word lists on which Komputeko is based are the Komputada Leksikono ("Computing Lexicon") by Sergio Pokrovskij (Сергей Покровский), the crowd-sourced Reta Vortaro ("Internet Dictionary", ReVo, the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto ("Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto", PIV), the Internet mini-dictionary of the Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, the Techniczny Słownik Polsko Esperancki ("Polish-Esperanto Technical Dictionary") by Jerzy Wałaszek, the three-volume Pekoteko collection of terminology, Bill Walker's Komputilo Vortolisto^[2] and a Dutch-Esperanto dictionary. It also takes into account the terminology used in articles from the Esperanto Wikipedia.

Reta Vortaro is a general-purpose multilingual Esperanto dictionary for the Internet. Each of the dictionary's headwords is defined in Esperanto, along with additional information, such as example sentences, to help distinguish the subtle shades of meaning that each particular word form may have.

<i>Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto</i> Esperanto dictionary

Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto is a monolingual dictionary of the language Esperanto. It was first compiled in 1970 by a large team of Esperanto linguists and specialists under the guidance of Gaston Waringhien and is published by the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT). Since 2012, it may be consulted online after free registration.

La Plena Pekoteko is a three-volume terminology collection extending to 1,816 pages. The word Pekoteko is an abbreviated version of Per-komputora termino-kolekto.

The promoter of the project, Yves Nevelsteen, among other things, joined the Esperanto translation team for the open-source productivity suite OpenOffice.org, the social networking site Ipernity and the content management system Drupal in order to make these teams' work product more widely available through Komputeko.

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OpenOffice.org (OOo), commonly known as OpenOffice, is a discontinued open-source office suite. It was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 1999 for internal use.

ipernity is a non-commercial photo sharing community which is financed exclusively by membership dues without any intention of making a profit. By means of the Ipernity Members Association (ima), the community operates its own website for the protected private exchange of digital content such as photos, videos, audio files and blogs, as well as for the worldwide publication of selected content.

Usage of Komputeko

Among scholars who have acknowledged the utility of the Komputeko project are John C. Wells, who authored both the Teach Yourself Books' Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary (1969) and the concise yet comprehensive English-Esperanto-English Dictionary (Mondial, 2010), and Paul Peeraerts, who translated the interface of Ipernity and Facebook into Esperanto and who has served as editorial secretary of the Esperanto-language monthly Monato . Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

John Christopher Wells is a British phonetician and Esperantist. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics.

Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company. It is based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Amazon, Apple, and Google.

Monato is a monthly magazine produced in Esperanto which carries articles on politics, culture and economics. It is printed in Belgium and distributed to readers in 65 countries. The title simply means "month".

Book versions of Komputeko

2008: Yves Nevelsteen, Komputeko (1st edition). Published by Espero, Partizánske, Slovakia. 92 pages. ISBN 978-80-969533-9-4
- This version benefited from the linguistic advice of Cindy McKee and Bertilo Wennergren, while Mauro La Torre (1946–2010), Paul Peeraerts and Lode Van de Velde served as proofreaders.
2012: Yves Nevelsteen, Komputeko (2nd edition). Published by Espero, Partizánske, Slovakia. 124 pages. ISBN 978-80-89366-14-9
- Edmund Grimley Evans's extensive annotations on the first edition helped improve the second edition, for which the chief proofreader was Marek Blahuš. The new edition, which has 7,800 headwords and incorporated over 500 additions and modifications from the previous edition, coincided with a major update to the online project's website.

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Bertilo Wennergren is a Swedish Esperantist currently living in the village of Schossin in northern Germany.

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Montagu Christie Butler, was a British academic, librarian, lexicographer, musician, and Esperantist. A winner of several prizes at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he was a harpist and a versatile music teacher skilled in playing various musical instruments, as well as a teacher of voice and of musical composition.

Michel Duc Goninaz was a French Esperantist known worldwide for his 2002 revision of La Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto.

Eckhard Bick is a German-born Esperantist who studied medicine in Bonn but now works as a researcher in computational linguistics. He was active in an Esperanto youth group in Bonn and in the Germana Esperanto-Junularo, a nationwide Esperanto youth federation. Since his marriage to a Danish woman he and his family live in Denmark.

Plena Vortaro de Esperanto is a monolingual dictionary of the Esperanto language first published by the Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda (SAT) in 1930, largely considered the first truly comprehensive dictionary written entirely in Esperanto.

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Eugen Wüster was an industrialist and terminologist.

The Conference on the Application of Esperanto in Science and Technology is a biennial conference on the application of the international language Esperanto in science and technology.

Peter Baláž, in Esperanto known as Petro, is an Esperantist, publisher and editor; he was selected as the 2012 Esperantist of the Year. Baláž lives in his hometown of Partizánske and speaks Slovak, Czech, German, Polish, Russian and English, as well as the international planned language Esperanto.

Claus Killing-Günkel, in Esperanto also known as Nikolao Günkel, is a German teacher and interlinguist.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Esperanto:

References

↑ An English-Esperanto-Spanish-Catalan-Polish version can be found at https://komputeko.net/varianto1/index_eo.php
↑ Bill Walker, Komputilo Vortolisto ("list of computing words")

External links

Komputeko, searchable English interface to the online version
Komputeko, searchable Esperanto interface, along with Esperanto-language information on the project
Sergio Pokrovskij, Extensive review of Komputeko, 2008 edition (text in Esperanto), from La Ondo de Esperanto , October 2009, (issue 180)

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[1] An English-Esperanto-Spanish-Catalan-Polish version can be found at https://komputeko.net/varianto1/index_eo.php

[kovo-2] Bill Walker, Komputilo Vortolisto ("list of computing words")