Hi!
Talking with Gerard on how to promote wiktionary we thought about a "the word of the day" list where people can subscribe and where we just take a word from the wiktionary each day and send it to the group together with the link on wiktionary.
I started a page on this on meta as well: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_word_of_the_day
I thought about using yahoogroups for this as if the group listed in the directory it is immediately also included in many search engines - and people don't necessarily need to know about it through the wiktionary website, but just subscribe to the group on yahoo and are then lead to wiktionary. This means there are going to be links from other websites to the group and from there to wiktionary. Sooner or later this will lead to further contributors.
I am going to insert a link to the subscription of the group when I write to my discussion lists on other themes. So there will be an automatic return after a while.
As an internal exchange we can subscribe to this list and use these words as "words to be completed" - this means that I e.g. receive the word from the English wiktionary and if my language is missing I simply go there and add it.
So if you'd like to start subscribing to see what I send out every day, just send a clean message to: laparoladelgiorno-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I also need a second person that can substitute me when I cannot send out the word (it is going to be seldom, but it could happen).
And of course, if you would like to create your "word of the day" -list in your language: I'll insert this in my word of the day newsletter - so more people will see the other languages that of course use other words ....
Yann: I just had an idea - but we need people who help us - I'll write this in a separate mail.
OK, let me know what you think about this.
Ciao, Sabine ***** Vuoi la parola del giorno nella tua cassella di posta? Invia un'e-mail vuota a: laparoladelgiorno-subscribe@yahoogroups.com