Greetings!

What's up with Wiktionary?

I've been reading the Talk pages and there's an awful lot of complaining and whining. First, about the Interlingua entries. I need a large file type of list that I can work from to add entries. They are moving to the index section. They can be deleted when I'm done the bulk of entering the multilingual info I have.

Now, please don't misunderstand me... I'm willing to follow protocols and learn the wiki-ways. Plus whatever conventions can be made clear I'll willingly follow.

But...

Someone complained about my French, ehem ehem, not my swearing mind you, my use of French, in that it isn't proper enough, and not accurate enough. Well all I can say is that I'm not a native French speaker, my French High School teacher learned it in Algiers and it's been years since I had a fluent conversation in it for more than five minutes. I do what I can. My German is rotten also, but I do what I can. When I don't know I either leave it blank or put in the English as a marker for me to look up that word later. Again, the index entries are there to help me enter in new info into the main Wiktionary... similarly with Wikipedia articles. Two windows open, cut and paste the look ups, edit here and there, etc.

Now I'm getting requests to "slow down" how un-wiki is that???

Then about the use of HTML tags, well, frankly, the "list" tags in the Wiktionary are all HTML, my additions are usually a mixture of both HTML and wiki-coding. I find it more assuring to write <BR> than to let the parser put a line where it thinks it should. Same for <P> and for <HR> the ---- is sometimes good sometimes not clear enough for me. These are basic HTML tags that shouldn't scare anyone. If tables are a problem, I've only put these in the Wikipedia Homepage for Interlingua and Volapuk and in a couple of wikipedia entries where everything needed a certain layout, like the table of HTML and ASCII codes in the Interlingua Wikipedia.

Now my questions regarding the Wiktionary are:

Is there a set way of entering the info?

Is there an entity that can decide this once and for all?

Is it possible to have foreign language appendixes on the English Wiktionary?

Or...

Is there a possibility that a namespace will happen anytime soon for other languages? (There's even complaints that "this is an English dictionary, isn't it!!!" Well, maybe so but I thought it was also a multilingual dictionary, and that's where I'm interested in helping out).

So those are the issues and I welcome any insights or clues you can pass my way.

Cheers, Jay B.