Repo for the text files of lexica

Is PerseusDL/lexica beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to PerseusDL/lexica to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
67
Forks
29
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
13
Avg merge
2d 9h
Merged PRs (30d)
2
Dominant language
No language data
License
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Last GitHub push
Oct 22, 2026
Latest indexed
Oct 22, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted

How to contribute to PerseusDL/lexica

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's CC-BY-SA-4.0 license.
  3. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • LSJ and Strong numbers
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#113 ·

  • Multiple XML into single PDF
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#99 · 1 comment ·

  • Proposal: Automatic XML Validation
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#74 · 3 comments ·

  • How to handle missing <sense> tags
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 24/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#69 · 3 comments ·

  • (LS) new version
    Open
    enhancement help wanted

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 12/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#67 · 2 comments ·

  • How to use URNs?
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#59 · 11 comments ·

  • Lewis and Short: carets in many entries; misreading of double diacritic mark
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#41 · 3 comments ·

  • FYI: Lewis and Short to JSON project
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#33 · 1 comment ·

  • (lat.ls.perseus-eng1.xml) front matter missing
    May be free again @lcerrato claimed this 3699 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement missing text

    PerseusDL/lexica#30 · 1 assignee ·

  • Lane's dictionary
    Open
    arabic missing text question

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 32/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#23 ·

  • LSJ: words starting with dii
    Open
    on hold

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#8 · 1 comment ·

  • intermediate LS encoding corrections
    Open
    encoding on hold

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    PerseusDL/lexica#4 · 1 comment ·

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