[Foundation-l] Re: Wiktionary, general thoughts

[Timwi]

Lars Aronsson wrote:

> "Go" is a verb with so many
> meanings (go by bus, go for it, gone with the wind, ...) and should
> they all be explained and translated again on the went and gone pages?

Well, personally, I would like for "goes", "went" and "gone" to simply 
redirect to "go"...

> The German Wiktionary contains 971 pages, but only 39 qualify as
> articles. I don't know what is missing in the other 932 ones.

I don't know that either, but I just went to have a look, and their Main 
Page explicitly says "PLEASE DO NOT CREATE ARTICLES YET." Apparently 
they want to think about the layout template and general organisation 
first. Quite obviously they are even more paranoid about consistency 
than I am, and I do acknowledge that consistency is an order of 
magnitude harder to accomplish in something like Wiktionary (which is 
mainly structured data) than in something like Wikipedia (which is 
mainly just free-form text).

Timwi