On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Steve Summit scs@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.