Mark, You may now something about languages, but you have no clue about Wiktionary. And if you did, I would welcome your comments about the ERD that I posted here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:ERD.jpg It is a work in progress and it is working towards the Ultimate Wiktionary. I can put dialects in there but I am not yet happy about this aspect as I cannot truly enter simplified Chinese in there in a proper way. It also places etymology on a different place from where it is traditionally placed in the wiktionaries due to the fact that there are some that differ depending on the meaning of a word.
As to capitalisation; any paper dictionary does not capitalise the words that are in there unless they are capitalised as a rule. It is due to some unfortunate history that it took so long to change the English wiktionary. There are currently 19 articles in the African wiktionary, Jcwf may want to use the same system of templates that are used in many of the other wiktionaries. To do this it helps to have capitalisation turned off.
I second his request to turn capitalisation on the af.wiktionary off.
Thanks, GerardM
Mark Williamson wrote:
Because they speak Afrikaans, and would be able to give the view of a native speaker.
Mark
On 15/07/05, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Angela wrote:
Ashar's request was to ask af.wikipedia, not Wiktionary about this, and they have 4000 articles and a reasonably active, though small, community.
If none of them participates in Wiktionary, why does their opinion count any more than anyone else's?