[Moved to wikipedia-l at mav's request] Gutza wrote:
How about a Wikipedia "documenting" expressions in various languages? I mean, try googling around for "bring it on" (~542,000 matches), or "what goes around comes around" (~98,500 matches)--and try finding out what they /mean/. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to find any explanation anywhere--I haven't.
Now I'm aware such a topic is more "dictionary-like" rather than "encyclopedia-like"--I guess that's the first objection which comes to mind, although we already have a Wiktionary--, but is Wikimedia's purpose to only support encyclopedic projects, or to support projects which would be helpful?
Also, think about the various languages which make use of expressions--due to the human nature, I expect all languages do--, and think how helpful such a (successful) project would be for people around the world trying to find out information about this and that obscure expression in some language. Bells and whistels included a la Wikipedia, as in cross-referencing languages, historical periods, you know the drill, I won't go into that.
What do you think?
I'd say this would be better as a part of Wikiquote than a separate project, personally.
-- Jake