Andrew Dunbar wrote:
While a fully structured re-design would obviously help myself and people wanting to interchange Wiktionary data with .dict data, it would definitely make it much harder for the general user to contribute.
Hoi, I am interested in knowing why it would be harder to contribute for a general user. I do agree that the current format of the Dutch Wiktionary is hard to get into. But I am really interested in learning why a new application would be harder for the general public to contribute to. The improvement of the user interface by localisation and the improvement of quality and qualitity by an integration of Wiktionaries and its communities will lead to substantial improvements and it will make the data much more accesible. There will also not be any doubt what can be filled in where as this will be prescribed by the user interface. And, yes there will be room to enter data that can not be entered in the structured UW mark I
I am sorry to learn that you lost all the hard work that you did in creating a parser for the en.wiktionary. It is truly a loss because the data that can be exported to a .dict format can also be exported to an Ultimate Wiktionary format.
Thanks, GerardM