fabiform wrote:
--- Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
Ray Saintonge wrote:
Perhaps a question at the side with "Click here if there is a word you want to look up in Wiktionary". Clicking would open a question mark cursor that could be positioned over the problem word and clicked.
That sounds like a great idea to me, if there's a reasonable way to implement something like that (Javascript?).
That sounds cute, but how would it deal with the fact the inline word might be "examples" when the word you'd want to look up in wiktionary would be "example", etc.
If you wanted something to link to an example rather than the word "example" you might need some kind of special treatment. I think, though, that words like that are a very small subset of the overall vocabulary.
If you really want to encourage wikipedians to use wiktionary, how about simply adding a wiktionary search box next to/under the wikipedia one?
That too would be a welcome alternative. However, it does depend on our own search engine being functional again. I really miss it. :'(
Ec