On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 08:04:32 +0100, Gerard Meijssen gerardm@myrealbox.com wrote:
Hoi, 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]] ? ;) http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Linguae
(I realize I digress entirely with this next section here:)
A lot of Latin categories belong to other categories. It keeps them all in order. For example you can start at the list of names of animals in the family "Canidae": http://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Canidae
and it is categorized under the order "Carnivora", which is categorized under the class "Mammalia", which is under the phylum "Chordata", etc., the whole tree under a taxonomy category. I think it is a better system than other wiktionaries use. Instead of being broad in domain but narrow in coverage (like en:'s "English mammals" or fr:'s "Lexique en français des animaux") it goes for narrow in domain but broad in coverage: entries are categorized by family, but contain words in all languages, which I think is a more useful kind of collection...
It does have the drawback of requiring many more categories, though: currently with 682 words we have 213 categories, which is even more categories than en: has! ;)
*Muke!