Spanish gets new Wikipedia-type tool 

The Director of the Spanish Royal Language Academy Victor Garcia de la Concha, speaks during the Spanish Wikilengua web page presentation in Madrid, Thursday Jan. 10, 2008. The Spanish language version ... of Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. (AP Photo/Paul White) MADRID, Spain -- A new Wikipedia-style online tool designed to help the world's nearly 400 million Spanish speakers consult on proper use of their language launched officially on Thursday. Spoken in more than 20 countries, Spanish poses a daunting and fluid challenge to academics trying to track variations in grammar and vocabulary; there can be many ways to say a simple word such as car or pen. The Web site, called Wikilengua, in testing since August, works like the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, where Internet users can modify the entries they consult. But Wikilengua contributors must register in order to edit entries, and supervisors check contributions and filter out those they deem inaccurate or inappropriate. Thursday's   [More...] [Less...]