Go, Go, Leximo!

February 11th, 2009

Move over Wikipedia and Urban Dictionary, there’s a new user-generated knowledge database in town known as Leximo.org. Created and maintained by Ian Balina and Asad Mahmood, two juniors from The George Washington University (Washington D.C), Leximo.org is on a quest to amass the definitions of every word in every language with the help of users like you.

We’re not just building a community around it,” said Balina, a computer engineering major. “The number one thing people want to do online is talk to other people, so we’re basically trying to bring that aspect to Leximo and dictionaries because we think that people want to interact together, instead of just by themselves.”

– From GW University’s school paper, “The Daily Colonial”

In a system similar to the one used by Urban Dictionary, users’ submissions are subjected to review by other community members, allowing the accurate definitions to gain priority over the error-laden, or just poorly written, ones.

But with somewhere in the range of 475,000 to 600,000 words in the English language alone, and a little over 93,000 total words added to the site so far, Leximo.org has pretty far to go.

Want to make a contribution? Then head to Leximo.org and sign up.

– Genevieve M. Blaber

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