30 Mar 2005

Changed: following alphabet browsing changes:

1) split letter Ġ from letters G and Għ
2) letters Ħ and H are separated
3) letters Ż and Z are separated

This will allow a more accurate alphabet browsing e.g. Ż and Z are not considered same letters anymore.
However, Ie and I (begin with I), and G and Għ (begin with G) still considered same when browsing (will [might] work on this later on).

Additionally (on somewhat same issue), despite Maltese alphabet letter order the Maltese letters (when browsing through the alphabet) go after Latin when sorting. E.g. ħ goes after h. If you think this is a problem or this is something that should be definitely corrected please contact me and let me know otherwise it will stay as is for now.

8 Mar 2005

Updated: database. Corrected a few entries.

2 Mar 2005

Updated: minor fixes.

Bugs: working on all existing ones...

Added: (Russian part of the site) a link to Russian Malta - large Russian language web portal devoted to Malta.

1 Mar 2005

Updated: Search function - added (if nothing found) search of sound-alike words (look alike words will follow soon). Sound alike is based on latin spelling (not Maltese pronunciation) for now. Example search for abbuss.

Bugs: It seams some word functions are wrong. This is on my to-do list...

28 feb 2005

Updated: database structure to suit development of comprehensive dictionary system (database has been reworked completely)
Updated: main page, minor updates (nothing important)
Updated: better Russian language support
Updated: rewrote 80% of program code (to work with new database structure and just made it a little better)
Updated: more words added to the database
Updated: 24 words per page when browsing Maltese alphabet (before it was less)

Added: output word function (e.g. noun, verb, adjective, etc)
Added: output noun form (masculine, feminine or plural)
Added: extended noun info - generate plural form (where available)
Added: extended noun info - generate feminine form (where available)
Added: extended noun info - show if a noun does not have plural form (where available)
Added: show all available functions for a single word (e.g. show noun, show adjective and etc)
Added: similar words (output similar words associated with an entry if available)
Added: same noun can have different translation in different form (e.g. masculine noun is different from feminine noun).

Changed: search script. Unfortunately, search function has been somewhat downgraded due to the changes of database structure. Search will be expanded in future (and eventually will be much better). All previous features are available (strict, custom rules) only internal functionality has been changed.

Removed: show English translations in Russian part of the website.
Removed: a small feature I called priority output. Now, when dictionary database structure is changed it seems to be obsolete. It used to automatically do 'see-instead'. Now, when a word can have several different entries associated (same noun in different form with different meanings, different word functions with different meanings) translation is outputted for a word (an entry) that does not have direct translation associations (it is done via querying translation association for 'see-instead' association). Thus initial search is preserved, 'words with same meaning' feature is placed to insure that all available data is shown.

Bugs: One or two translation entries might have been lost (due to database corruption on my local machine, repair was successful so no problems should arise from this). If you find words without translation please inform me.

Initial version (2003 - 28 feb 2005)

Initial version