rb_wiktionary@boult.mailshell.com wrote:
So I would suggest whoever is managing the idea of change needs to lift their game in keeping the active Wiktionary community informed.
Yes, indeed.
Don't worry -- nothing radical is going to happen too quickly -- but Gerard has managed to secure funding from Kennisnet (Dutch educational consortium) for programming for WikiData. I'm not fully informed on the details of this, but I think that it should be fairly easy to get strong community input on features needed most badly.
The goal here should be to make everything better for everyone. There should be no thought of doing away with free form wiki text for detailed explanations of etymology, meaning, etc. That's a wonderful thing. At the same time, there should be _easy_ support for structured querying and automatic international linking per Gerard's usual explanations of this stuff.
--Jimbo