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Eksi Sözlük is a collaborative hypertext dictionary that follows almost the same concept as Everything2 or H2G2. The site is in Turkish; the name "Eksi Sözlük" translates to "Sour Dictionary".

1 History

Eksi Sozluk was founded on February 15, 1999 with no serious goal except to be an interactive raw information source. The site had no rules, no user accounts. However as the site grew popular a set of rules and moderation mechanisms had to be put in use to handle increasing number of users and entries every day. Conceptually, the site is very similar to H2G2, it has been inspired a lot by Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Currently Eksi Sozluk keeps the position of being the largest and the most popular interactive database about Turkish society. Throughout its growing popularity, it took the interest of press and has been reviewed in many newspapers and TV shows.

2 Stats

As of 2004As of August 2004, there were 3,741,377 entries and 6,322 active writers (sozluk user: suser) in the web site. The creator of the site is "ssg". There are 7 moderators who scrutinize and, if needed, modify/delete the entries of the members.

In Eksi Sözlük, all members are split into six different generations (so far), each signifying the registry date of a particular member. For instance, if a member registered to the site in 1999, s/he is a 1st generation writer, if in 20022002 is a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). 2002 was the first palindromic year since 1991 and the last until 2112. 2002 was also designated: International Year of Ecotourism and Mountains National Science Year in the United Kingdom, then s/he is a 4th generation writer.

3 Features

1. The usage of capital letters is omitted.

2. Although it is a Turkish originating site, non-Latin Turkish letters ( ç, iI is the 9th letter in the Latin alphabet. History The letter I derived from the Greek iota (Ι, ι). It stood for the vowel /i/, the same as in the Etruscan alphabet. In Latin (as in Modern Greek) /j/ (as English Y in YOKE) was added. In Semitic,, gG is the seventh letter in the Roman alphabet. History The letter G was created by the Romans because they felt that C was not an adequate letter to represent both /k/ and /g/. Fascinatingly, the alleged inventor is a known historical figure, Spurius Carv, ö, sS is the nineteenth letter in the modern Latin alphabet. Semitic Šin (bow) was pronounced as /S/ as the modern English digraph SH. In Greek, there was only one phoneme /s/ and no /S/, so Greek σιγμα ( sigma) came to repres, ü) are omitted from the titles.

3. The site runs on ASP and Microsoft SQL Server with several custom extensions like near-matches finder for missing titles called " clairvoyance", a proprietary search engine called " hayvan ara ".



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