I fail to understand what the argument is about.
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
There is an acrimonious discussion on nl:wikipedia. This has to do with some people who consider wiktionary to be external to wikipedia and, they consider the information that a dictionary supplies to be of no additional value to wikipedia.
I would disagree with them about that.
I want to diffuse this situation and I need the help from the developpers for that. The content of other wikipedia's can be found by clicking on the left hand side under "in other languages". I would like a method that allows us to link to the wiktionary article in that general area.
A link in the article should accomplish that more easily.
*This will remove any standard references to wiktionary from the wikipedia article itself.
Why would you want to do that?
*The content of a sister article in another wikipedia should (theoretically) not add information to a wikipedia article as, it should only present the information in another language. As the referal to other wikipedia's is an established fact, the inclusion in that space of wiktionary information should not be a problem as wiktionary DOES add relevant information to the wikipedia article (translations, etymology, pronounciation etc)
The reality is that the sister article is written by a separate group of people without reference to what is written in your chosen language. There's no rule to say that they must have the same information in all cases. Controversial subjects especially are affected by the attitudes of the separate groups of participants.
- Technically, the link requires a parameter as some wiktionaries do
not have first character capitalisation.
The link from Wiktionary to Wikipedia is not a problem; here it is accepted that encyclopedic information should find its way in Wikipedia. The fact that dictionary information has no place in Wikipedia is also an established and respected fact.
But there is some overlap.
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