Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, To explain to the people on the Wiktionary mailinglist where this comes from, there is a huge debate on the Wikipedia-l mailinglist about having a seperate English and American English wikipedia.
I wouldn't characterize it as huge. One person made the proposal, and no-one who replied considered it realistic.
In the plans for Ultimate Wiktionary there are three ways in which words can be destinguished as being of a particular orthography. I will describe these here and hope to use the energy of this discussion for this question that needs a resolution at some stage.
Please let me know what you think and particularly why.
It's premature to get into this kind of debate before the software is in place, but I suspect that the preferred option will vary from one term to the next.
Ec