Re: [Wiktionary-l] Why no formalized collaboration between Wiktionaries?

Hi, Lately, I have started wondering why we don't have a set of multilingual discussion pages - one to deal with English, say, which could be used for people interested in working on English words in any wiktionary. Another for Swedish, and so on... Then we could, I believe, reduce the amount of *repeatedly* produced "hot air".... ;) I mean, I see right now a discussion concerning Romance languages' participles underway in en:wikt. I see no reason, however, why a such discussion won't arise again, in the Greek, or the Polish, or even the Italian wiktionary. I see the same discussions concerning various details on certain Swedish words being held on both sv: and en: - and in how many more places are these words discussed without me noticing because I'm not active in those wiktionaries, and perhaps unable to understand the language in which it is held? Perhaps I (or someone else) familiar with other wiktionaries could point out how the same problem may have been solved already in this second wiktionary, would I only know about the discussion... Someone found out a while ago that several wiktionaries had made mistakes in their treatment of Irish nation names - and had to rise the same issue over and over and over again, once in each wiktionary where this user found this particular error. Though I know meta - in theory at least - has been multilingual for quite some time, I'm not very active there and hence don't really know about how successful (or not) their attempts to deal with large numbers of extensive multilingual discussions have been. (Perhaps someone could enlighten me?) Of course I understand that there are some serious complications with any attempt of a "multilingual discussion" - maybe most importantly the continuous need to translate things, but I guess there also will be issues with various wiktionaries wanting to arrange things in very different manners. Now the question is: would anyone be interested in trying to follow a multilingual discussion of their favourite language if it took place in meta or on another site than they ordinarily work on? Or would such an attempt be considered as an attempt of *someone* (=outsiders) to decide how "my" wiktonary is run? Comments? Regards, \Mike (p.s. This actually makes me regret that we basically decided to split the wiktionaries according to the user interface language and not according to "content language", way back in 2003/2004 or whenever the first two non-English wiktionaries were created.... :/ Well, no point crying over spilled milk.) I'm \Mike. You'll find me at [[wikt:sv:Användare:Mike]], [[wikt:en:User:Mike]] and elsewhere.