On 15/06/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/15/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
The current solution, making them different pages, is IMO much worse than favoring one or the other, since it requires people to basically copy/paste definitions across multiple pages, and make sure changes stay in sync. Look, for example, at "traveling" versus "travelling", which currently actually have wildly different content despite being the same word with a minor variation in spelling (this was the first example I checked).
This whole thing seems silly, bordering on extremely silly. Should Wikipedia have separate articles for petrol and gasoline?
Possible solution (if it's absolutely critical that color and colour both have top level non-redirected articles): Put all the content in {{colr}} and transclude it. If you include a heading near the top and people use section editing, they won't even know!
Steve
Right, if it were that simple, this would have long been solved before. Please check out the tons of discussions on it, for instance here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Beer_parlour_archive/March_06#First...
Everyone is welcome to re-start the discussions, but I doubt it will change anything.
Reasons include that [[color]] contains, or at least should contain, different etymologies, pronunciations, derived terms, related terms, etc. than [[colour]]. Another argument is that [[color]] also lists the Latin, Spanish, etc. words, which [[colour]] doesn't of course.
Redirects are really a Wikipedia thing, and cause much disagreement over on Wiktionary. A dictionary isn't fit to redirect the user to a different page, when they only need to know what the word they entered exactly means.
Cheers, Wildrick http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Vildricianus