Muke Tever wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Yannf has added a category "language" to the categories that hold the words in a language. This gives you one list with all lists of words in a particular language.
What, like our Latin [[Category:Linguae]] ? ;)
It seems that many wiktionaries use the category system to create indices of the entries in particular language. However, the current version of our software doesn't really support such use.
In the Polish Wiktionary we have around 16.000 Interlingua entries. We won't even try to add the category to the template...
At this point we generate indices with an external program: http://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indeks:Has%C5%82a_wed%C5%82ug_j%C4%99zyk%C3%B3... - but it's a bad solution. Categories would be easier...
At some point there was talk that in the new version of the software categories containing many entries will automatically split into subpages divided by the initial letter of the entry, or even further (eg. English - Aa, English - Ab, ..., English - Zz). Is someone working on that?
I think that auto-generating indices is one of the most important features that Wiktionaries miss in the software. We need a system that can handle listing tens of thousands of entries. If one user requests this feature, the request will most probably be ignored. However, if the communities of several Wiktionaries request it together, perhaps we can count on developers recognising this need?