Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, For wikipedia they changed www.wikipedia.org to become a portal to show that wikipedia is a project in many languages. This is to show that wikipedia is not only English as many people think. The same is true for the wiktionary; there are many wiktionaries and, in the same manner as we have with wikipedia I propose to have wiktionary.org point to the page that can be found on META http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Www.wiktionary.org_portal
It took the wikipedia crowd two years to get to the point and change things. I expect that people will have the same arguments why they think wiktionary means en:wiktionary. However, wiktionary is much less known than wikipedia and, the other wiktionaries like pl: with over 28.000+ and gl: with 11.000+ prove that en: with 52.000+ is not the only kid on the block.There are also 9 others in between 1.000+ and 10.000- who emphasize the point.
So I hope that we can agree to have a similar portal for wiktionary as we have for wikipedia.
I don't see any problems with this, but I would wait at least two weeks so that the Wikipedia portal has time to stabilize. Once they have beat back all the arguments, implementing the Wiktionary portal should go smoothly.
Ec