... In your mail you want to export the wiktionary data. The consequence is that when you choose for export, you will have to do this continually as we hope to increase the content of Ultimate Wiktionary dramatically.
--- i agree, i personally and on the road alot and only have access to dial-up, a 'local copy' so i could search without getting online would be great, i know that there would be a drift in the content online and the local content, but that is acceptable for the ability to search offline. It was just a thought, i realise the implications on bandwidth, etc, but it is something to consider.
As far as I understand the RFC, there is a need for responding to a request and providing a reply in a set format. There is no need to have a database in a specific format as long as the respons provided conforms to the RFC.
--- Yes, i was just asking about the database to see if the structure was inplace to make an easy transition from RDB entry to a .dict response. I think you answered it as basically, no, since each page is formatted independantly, and Yes, since the new Ultimate Wiktionary will have a defined structure.
As the Ultimate Wiktionary is being designed at the moment and as Wikidata is being built, this is a time to consider what is needed to provide .dict functionality. This functionality will be included when someone does the programming or when someone finds the funds to strap the .dict functionality on top of Ultimate Wiktionary.
--- i would be willing to help and donate time to work on .dict functionality, when things get to that point in the Ultimate Wiktionary development please keep me in mind.
One problem I see with exporting content from Wiktionary is the GNU-FDL requirement to maintain the history of the contributors. For the UW, I think it can be solved by adding the history information on the talk page. The necessity for UW stems from the likelyhood that many wiktionaries, if not all, may merge into the Ultimate Wiktionary and be abandoned.
--- i agree, you don't want multiple forks of definitions floating around, i only suggested the export for offline reference, not for importing somewhere else and continuing from there.
-brian