[Foundation-l] Wiktionaries for all!

[Tim Starling]

I've set up Wiktionaries for all 146 languages that have a Wikipedia.
There's known teething problems, however they should be good be working well
enough now for people to get started. The most important problem is that
many languages have a project namespace of "Wikipedia" (or the
transliterated equivalent), but the interface messages point to
"Wiktionary". I suggest that for the time being, people should put pages in
the real Wikipedia: namespace, and set up redirects from the Wiktionary:
pseudo-namespace where necessary. Wiktionaries with no language file, or
with language files which use $wgMetaNamespace, do not suffer this problem.

The MediaWiki namespaces have been copied from the associated Wikipedias,
with the local term for "Wikipedia" replaced by "Wiktionary".

To request adminship or bureaucratship on the new wiktionaries, go to:

http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_Wiktionary_permissions

I've set up a few basic kinds of interwiki links, which may be expanded or
modified in the future. The "w:" prefix should link to the Wikipedia in the
same language. Language prefixes link to other language Wiktionaries. To
link to a different language Wikipedia, use [[Wikipedia:xx:Page]].

This brings the total number of wikis to 298. There's a few technical and
administrative changes which occurred to make this happen. Stewards should
know that they can change the rights of users on the wiktionaries by
appending "wiktionary" to the language code, e.g. "Tim
Starling at frwiktionary" . Wikis such as sources and sep11 can now only be
accessed by appending "wiki", i.e. metawiki, sourceswiki, quotewiki,
sep11wiki and textbookwiki.

Another change is that the English Wiktionary has moved from wiktionary.org
to en.wiktionary.org, bringing it into line with the rest of the
wiktionaries and with Wikipedia. There are redirects of course, so links
won't be broken. The only links that were broken during the construction of
these wikis were images uploaded to the English, French or Polish
Wiktionaries. The directory layout was rearranged to minimise the overhead
per wiki.

-- Tim Starling