On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Steve Summit <scs(a)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.