| Website | lingoz.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees |
Crowd Sourcing for definitions? Wiktionary does it and now LingoZ has joined in. A spin off service from translation software company Babylon, LingoZ takes aim at a relatively simple but full market. Although Wiktionary may have the clear lead in user generated definitions, LingoZ has plans to leverage its parent company’s linguistic databases as well as implement a better and friendlier interface to produce a larger volume of high quality definitions.
LingoZ contributors access Babylon’s dictionaries and from there can change terms, add new terms, create glossaries, comment and collaborate on other content and most importantly vote on the correctness/quality of each definition.
With LingoZ each definition is attributed to one sole creator and can only be edited by said person. Users who get the most positive feedback and produce the highest quality content will be rewarded with higher visibility within the LingoZ community.
LingoZ’s main competitors include Wiktionary and Answers.com which is the default definition provider for Google searches.
| Website | lingoz.com |
| Stage | Live |
| Tags | crowd-sourcing |
LingoZ has definitions in English, Hebrew, Portuguese, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Netherlands with plans to extend the service to 42 additional languages. The site has over 4.5 million definitions as of October 2007.
