--- Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
... We would thus have hundreds of entries for, say, "five" in hundreds of languages, all of which say nothing else than "this means five" and the same list of translations into all other languages. Isn't this an incredible nightmare to keep in sync?
And every language Wikipedia should have an article about Europe too.
Now we have Wiktionaries in loads of languages, and all the redundancy above is multiplied /again/ by the number of languages. We would be collecting the translations for the word "five" n� times, where n is the number of languages. I don't know how many languages there are on this planet, but even if it was only 1000 languages, this means 1000000 (one million!) times the same list of words.
Yes - there would be a great deal of redundancy for the translation lists. Interwiki MediaWiki/Template pages would solve that. We have the same problem with interwiki links too - the same list minus one change has to be every language version of an article.
Am I the only one who thinks this is unbelievably redundant?
Only for the lists, not for the whole entries. I like the fact that Wiktionary is also a translating dictionary - it makes it much more useful.
--mav
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