rb_wiktionary(a)boult.mailshell.com wrote:
So I would suggest whoever is managing the idea of
change needs to lift
their game in keeping the active Wiktionary community informed.
Yes, indeed.
Don't worry -- nothing radical is going to happen too quickly -- but
Gerard has managed to secure funding from Kennisnet (Dutch educational
consortium) for programming for WikiData. I'm not fully informed on the
details of this, but I think that it should be fairly easy to get strong
community input on features needed most badly.
The goal here should be to make everything better for everyone. There
should be no thought of doing away with free form wiki text for detailed
explanations of etymology, meaning, etc. That's a wonderful thing. At
the same time, there should be _easy_ support for structured querying
and automatic international linking per Gerard's usual explanations of
this stuff.
--Jimbo