Vitaly V. dr.vitall@gmail.com wrote:
First, proposed system will make user less likely to check what word mean in second/third language.
You mean they'll be able to find the information they're looking for more easily, and not be distracted by the information they're not looking for?
It will also make user less likely to edit second third language definition, especially if languages belong to same family and user/editor speaks more then 2 languages.
If a user's going to edit information, they're going to edit information, whatever page it's on. I suspect, as well, that people who habitually edit two or more languages are used to finding the information for corresponding words on different pages; having them on the same page is merely a bonus (and increasingly less of a bonus on those future pages that may have entries for over a hundred languages on them).
Also, that will make some comparisons of different languages definitions less convenient - now for words defined in two-three languages you can use scroll/mouse scroll. With proposed system, again, you have to click.
You mean you can click and bring up a new tab or window to see it side-by-side, instead of having to scroll back and forth each time you want to compare bits of information? I don't know about your browser, but in mine it's _more_ convenient to open a link in a new tab than to duplicate one.
In terms of language selection convenience, we already got "Contents" menu with all languages clearly visible.
Really? On http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a I get six screens of "Contents" to scroll through to see everything, and it's only got thirty languages and "Translingual" on it. (There's also a screen's worth of categories at the bottom to boot.) Even without adding more languages it'll be a lot less 'clearly visible' once more of the entries start progressing beyond the stub level and accumulate subheadings.
*Muke!