Kaixo!
On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 01:33:55PM -0700, Wikimedia PR wrote:
<Hemanshu> I was wondering if Wikipedia should incorporate links to Wiktionary in articles?
We use something like that in the Walloon wikipedia; we have a pseudo-namespace "Motî:" for dictionnary entries; and whenever we use a word in an article that may not be very known (Walloon is a small language with no official support, in fact there didn't existed any language-wide dictionary until now, so putting definitions is more needed than with other languages, like English or French, where anybody is supposed to have a good dictionnary on his shelf).
So it goes like this (from [[wa:Clå d' esté]]):
« On clå d' esté, c' est on [[Motî:sonnant|sonnant]] [[clå (del pea)|clå]] »
"sonnant" means "bleeding", and doesn't deserve an encyclopedic entry; but as some people may not understand it first time, a dictionnary entry link is usefull.
Note we don't use wictionnary but a pseudo-namespace on wikipedia; first because we started with it previous to the start of the wictionnnary project; and also for easyness; if a simple inline link can't be done (like in the example above), then it is useless. Now, if http://wa.wiktionary.org/wiki/sonnant could be made linkable as [[Motî:sonnant]] from wa.wikipedia.org; then it would be nice and we could ask to migrate the dictionnary section (note however that wiktionary would be more useful case sensitive, eg: http://wa.wiktionary.org/wiki/M%C3%A5tche and http://wa.wiktionary.org/wiki/m%C3%A5tche are not the same).