The two ways to do it are: 1) Parse the database. This is very difficult due to a myriad of article formats and a very large number of articles in which the format is just broken. I did however develop a parser just good enough to count articles and translations by language for the non-broken examples. Sadly the hard drive on which the code lived was destroyed in a grey-out or power surge. 2) Use of templates. On Wiktionary there is quite a bit of "anarchy" or "democracy" at present so it's very difficult to introduce new features and also to have such features used for their proposed purpose without being extended. Also people losing interest in their new ideas, and the fact that there are *so many* articles their to go back through and classify after agreeing on a way to do so. I think the best way would be to a) come to an agreement of how to make a language-tracking template. b) Create a new parser that can find language headings in their various variant forms. c) Use the data created by the parser with a bot to tag all the existing articles. d) Make the new tags compulsory.

Actually a better way again might be possible with input from the devs once Wiktionary is big enough for them to take notice (: Perhaps the new Styles support coming might also bring along something that helps us on en.wiktionary ? Hippietrail On 6/28/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote: >Hoi, >Yes there is a way to find the number of articles in a given language >and the number of languages on a wiktionary, check out the 271 languages >on the nl.wikipedia http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:taal. You >will also find that all words that are categorised have a number. All >articles are categorised. :) The way it is implemented is thanks to a >great suggestion from an en.wiktionarian. It was however not possible to >implement this on the English wiktionary because some deemed it >un-lexicological. > >It is done by using templates when a language is indicated. eg {{-en-}} >for an English language word. > >Thanks, >GerardM > >James R. Johnson wrote: > > > >>Is there any way to add some tag to the wiktionary so that we can get a >>count of the number of different languages we have on a wiktionary, and the >>number of words in each? For example: >> >> >> >>On EN: >> >> >> >>This wiktionary has: >> >>English: 50,345 words >> >>German: 4,211 words >> >>Japanese: 123 words >> >>Spanish: 422 words >> >>….. >> >>……. >>And so on. >> >> >> >>Is that somehow possible by adding a language tag, say [[lang:en]] and have >>the tags identified per wiktionary, so that en shows up as Inglés on >>Spanish, Englisch on German, etc.? >> >> >> >>Thanks, >> >> >> >>James >>

Hoi, Yes there is a way to find the number of articles in a given language and the number of languages on a wiktionary, check out the 271 languages on the nl.wikipedia http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Categorie:taal.

Klaus-Eduard Runnel wrote: rubriek" than to Hoi, This is not a bug but a "feature". This was installed to make the query of how many articles there are less expensive to run. You get 200 articles but also the option to see the next 200 articles. It is the best that is available at the moment. If the 1.5 software is more efficient, it may be possible to give us the number .. that is for the developers to decide.