Ray Saintonge wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
As to our community structure, it will evolve. Ultimate Wiktionary is part of that evolution. You can not seriously expect that in a project that doubles in size every four to six months our community will not be affected. UW will not be as I expect, I see opportunities and I try to realise them. Many of the expectations are dependant on what the UW community will be. It will not be like the Wikipedia communities, it will not be like the Wiktionary communities, it will be distinctly different but it will be Open and Free.
In one of your other posts you stated that some decisions about your UW had already been taken. If a UW community is to "evolve" that will begin when the software is usable by all who might be a part of that community. At that time _all_ of your pre-release decisions will be open to discussion and evolution. Anything else would be a work of [[intelligent design]].
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Is it not obvious that many decisions have been taken? Ultimate Wiktionary will be based on a database that has its functionality in a wiki, it will contain all words in all languages. It will have a user interface specifically for the Ultimate Wiktionary. These things have been decided. If at some stage people find that another scheme is better, there is no stopping them improving on what is on offer. If you think that the discussion starts when there is something is usable, you do not understand what software development is about. This is the time that people have to discuss what UW will be. If you do not use arguments now, if you do not think now, at that stage you will have lost your opportunity to be part of the decisions that will be taken before that time.
Using words like intelligent design is funny, because it is an intelligent design that we are looking for. It will be evolution that will show us what will happen with the UW functionality and how the Wiktionary [[phenomenon]] will evolve.
Thanks, GerardM