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