(Logeion users by city, with ‘not set’ by far the favorite..)
FAQ:
Q: Can students work on Logeion/on Philo4Classics?
A: Yes!
Q: What have they done for you lately?
A: Have you seen this site, Logeion? All built by students! When you contribute, your work is likely to be seen a million times (edited to add: in terms of user sessions; the number of word lookups goes into the tens of millions) in the next year, or so says Google Analytics.
Q: OK, but lately?
A: Ah. Well, student #1 built Retro this summer -so you can look up English words and find Latin or Greek ones- and added Favorites so you can download wordlists; student #2 worked on automatic parsing for Greek (this project still needs more work); student #3 helped transform all Plautus references in Lewis & Short to modern ones..
Q: Yes and?
A: Another student on his own initiative xml-ified a bunch of Alexander Romances, which was also awesome!
Q: Anything else you’d like?
A: Yes! Besides the parsing (should you be interested in NLP [natural language processing]), always interested in adding more capabilities to Logeion (more international flavors? images? phone apps?). Did I mention that Whitaker’s Words broke so we need to find a better offering for Latin parsing? Besides, PhiloLogic4 has a number of features and front-end issues that need work. Javascript lovers welcome.
Q: Who can help?
A: My usual refrain is: If you have some reading skills in Greek and/or Latin, and some reading and writing skills in Python, I’d love for you to come talk! Logeion is built for everyone, so a year or so of Latin or Greek is enough to understand the perspective of most of its users (better than a grey-haired classicist like me can!). There’s a lot of public domain data out there that is crying out for remixing for the enlightenment and enjoyment of the world, give or take a bit of manicuring of the data. Humanistic projects and questions don’t come with ready-made cookbooks, so you should be willing to mess around and try things.
Q: What about research projects?
A: Ha, that is what these tools are getting built for in the first place. A lot of the technical/practical solutions we look for are actually also research projects! See further above under ‘come talk!’ and ‘no cookbooks’.
PS: The above was geared to undergrads around here, but if you are at another institution and interested in a joint effort, that is also fair game, of course.