[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is not a dictionary (was: Re: Old Wikipedia backups discovered)

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:
> Anthony wrote:
>> The failures of Wikinews and Wiktionary are probably due in large part
>> to imposition of too much structure - in Wiktionary the formatting
>> requirements...
>
> Not sure I'd call Wiktionary a "failure".  But if it is, it's
> arguably a failure of Mediawiki to adequately support that
> structure, which is necessary for a dictionary (especially a
> multilingual one).

If Mediawiki is keeping the Wiktionarians from succeeding, then they
should fork Mediawiki.  But I don't think that's the real problem.  A
better candidate would that the imposition of top-down structure in a
wiki just doesn't work.