[Wikipedia-l] Re: [Wiktionary-l] Article on LISA

[Erik Moeller]

The important thing to understand is that Gerard, Sabine et al. are 
already doing the best they can do using the *present* wiki system. You 
can sort of hack yourself internationalizable field names by using 
templates like {{-noun-}} (you still have to redundantly copy them 
around), you can try to keep the data in a certain structure so it can 
be parsed by a script etc.

But these are *hacks*. They will break, they will be inflexible, they 
will be redundant, and they will not be properly supported by the 
software itself (try doing a search for a translation in a particular 
language, for example). UW tries to remedy this by adding structure 
where none previously existed and unifying the content in a single DB to 
reduce redundancies (without eliminating needed flexibility).

Best,

Erik