<DIV>I have been talking about this since quite a while (although without any concrete proposal)... using Wikipedia's popularity to benefit Wiktionary.</DIV>
<DIV>Jimbo Wales showed up in IRC and I took the opportunity to talk with him about it. I had already discussed it on the IRC channel.</DIV>
<DIV>Here's a transcript of the chat<BR><pre><BR><Hemanshu> hello<BR><jwales> Hello!<BR><Hemanshu> I was wondering if Wikipedia should incorporate links to Wiktionary in articles?<BR><Hemanshu> Wiktionary is really lacking interest<BR><jwales> It sounds like a reasonable concept to me.<BR><Hemanshu> we need to use Wikipedia's popularity to make Wiktionary more popular<BR><jwales> I agree with that.<BR><Hemanshu> good<BR><jwales> I can think of two ways...<BR><jwales> First, encourage more interwiki linking with wiktionary, somehow.<BR><jwales> Possibly even go so far as to have a bit of new markup.<BR><Hemanshu> yes<BR><Hemanshu> maybe we can have a small icon link next to words<BR><jwales> Second, we could put a link on every page of wikipedia, "Look for a definition of 'Article Title' in Wiktionary".<BR><Hemanshu> yeah<BR><jwales> That second one might generate resistance, though,
because many many times the article title is not really a word that needs defining, per se.<BR><jwales> Take a look at this:<BR><jwales> <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan</A><BR><jwales> just an example for us to brainstorm about.<BR><jwales> Now, that article has interlanguage links for 'fr' and 'ja' versions of the same topic.<BR><jwales> Perhaps a simple extension of the interlanguage syntax, but for definitions, would be sensible.<BR><Hemanshu> yeah I see<BR><Hemanshu> yes<BR><jwales> Here's a better brainstorm:<BR><Hemanshu> that would make it possible to link to definitions of article titles<BR><jwales> <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistics">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistics</A><BR><Hemanshu> and that could be implemented really easily<BR><jwales> There are 4 interlanguage links there.<BR><jwales> We
could have a new one, like:<BR><Hemanshu> being able to provide quicklinks to definitions of word used in the article could be more difficult<BR><jwales> [[definiton:paraphyletic]] could be the simple new markup.<BR><Hemanshu> yeah<BR><jwales> And that magically makes a a link, in the text at that point, to wiktionary.<BR><jwales> I would support something along those lines.<BR><jwales> Will you run this by wikipedia-l and wikitech-l?<BR><jwales> I'll make noises of joy.<BR><Hemanshu> :)<BR><jwales> Maybe it will excite someone and then it might happen.<BR><Hemanshu> I haven't joined the mailing list<BR><Hemanshu> I just have to send an email to?<BR><Hemanshu> wikipedia-1@?<BR><Hemanshu> can I post this conversation on the wiki?<BR><jwales> Yeah<BR><Hemanshu> ok<BR><jwales> Anyhow, talk to you later I'm going to have to go.<BR><Hemanshu> ok<BR><Hemanshu> nice
talking<BR></pre><BR></DIV><p>
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