Dictionary editors

Work on the dictionary content is co-ordinated by Cynthia Batty, ATypI's executive director, who cajoled everyone else into actually doing something about what everyone agreed was a good and useful idea.

Everyone involved in editing the content is a volunteer. This may mean that progress is slow; if you would like it to be faster, see the bottom of this page.

Editors

Editors add and edit content. We aim to have at least one editor for each major language community worldwide. So far our editors include, in no particular order:

Russian

Maxim Zhukov

Emil Yakupov

French

Jacques André

German

Erik Spiekermann

Martin Tiefenthaler (Austria)

Spanish

Jorge De Buen Unna (Mexico)

Hungarian

Robert Kravjanszki

English

Mark Barratt

Cynthia Batty

Eric Menninga (InDesign)

Will Powers (Guild terms)

Ben Weiner

Slovenian and Croatian

Petra Cerne Oven

Armenian

Hrant H Papazian

Polish

Adam Twardoch

Software and presentation

The back end of the dictionary was developed at Text Matters by Jamie Munro (mainly systems design and implementation), Ben Weiner (mainly interface design and scripting), and Mark Barratt (mainly interface design and awkward questions). Shoko Mugikura helped us start in Japanese (hiragana, katakana and kanji) and Simon Cozens not only made us realise how little we knew but attempted to show us how to solve the problem of sorting Japanese words.

As with content, we're eager for help with the back end: it's mostly Python, SQL and Zope TAL/TALES. We have lots to do...

Want to help?

We welcome helpers. Get in touch by adding a comment below. Give us contact details and say what you think you would like to/be able to contribute.