Oldak Quill wrote:
On 02/01/07, Conrad Irwin conrad.irwin@googlemail.com wrote:
When an obscure term is used in a body of text that has no Wikipedia article associated with it, the author of the article, at the moment, has to include the meaning of the word in the article itself. Would it not make sense to have a way of quickly making links to look up a word in Wiktionary, something like {{define|miscellany}}.
Different words will be lost on different people. I've always wanted some kind of javascript extension/tool where one can right-click a word (or hold "D" and left click or something) and a small box will open up with a Wiktionary definition of the word... Perhaps this has already been written.
I can't see this as generally possible. It may work with more technical terms that have a single definition, but beyond that many words have multiple definitions. Which is most appropriate in a given context is a matter of judgement.
A reader should, of course, be able to look up any word in Wiktionary. There should be no need to define the word again in a Wikipedia article unless it is the subject of the article.
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