Ray Kiddy wrote:

Ok, maybe this is just a blind spot that I have. I cannot see it.

I downloaded and am running a wiki for myself. I also know, basically, how to read php.

And I understand that the wiktionary is a kind of Wikimedia project. I just cannot find how to start something which looks like a wiktionary....

I guess I expected that there might be a switch in one of the index.php, like:

$wgSiteType = "wiki"

or ...

$wgSiteType = "wiktionary"

The wiktionary front page looks very different than the default wikipedia-style front page. For example, it has "Quick Index" of letters. Are those just constructed by hand, or is there a different stylesheet, or skin, or config script that one uses to "turn on" the wiktionary features?

If someone can point me at info with which to get started, I would be glad to write a series of pages: "Running MediaWiki Configured as a Wikipedia" (not much would be in this one), "Running MediaWiki Configured as a Wikiquote", "Running MediaWiki Configured as a Wiktionary", and so forth and so on.

thanx - ray

Hoi, There are several ways of running wiktionary; there is the English way; this is the old lady of wiktionary, then there are the projects that share together the same templates in order to make cooperation between the projects possible. These are among others the nl:wiktionary the it:wiktionary. We are experimenting on the fa:wiktionary for right to left. There are also some wiktionaries that go it alone like the de:wiktionary and the pl:wiktionary.

Ultimately we hope to get some coding done to give us the "ultimate wiktionary", we either need a volunteer to code it for us or we need money to pay a programmer to pay it for us. This would provide us with a much improved user interface and, a wiktionary that can host wiktionary for all languages from within one database.

If you have further questions about wiktionary, there is a wiktionary-l mailinglist dedicated to everything wiktionary.

Thanks, GerardM