Dan Miller wrote:
I think the reason for this is that a dictionary cannot really take advantage of the wiki structure. Consider the dense interlinking that occurs in any decent encyclopedia article; how would something like that be useful, or even apply, in a dictionary?
I'm not sure I follow this train of thought. There may be fewer links per Wiktionary entry on average as in a Wikipedia article, but it is still pretty densely interlinked. E.g. [[Golden eagle]]:
=== Noun === '''[[golden]] [[eagle]]'''
# A [[bird]] [[species]] of the [[family]] ''[[Accipitridae]]'', [[genus]] ''[[Aquila]]''.
====Scientific name==== * [[Aquila chrysaetos]]
9 links! ;-) In Wikipedia, you get less links per sentence because in an encyclopedia the links should go to articles that are relevant to the context. In a dictionary, the links just go to words, so theoretically you could link absolutely every word! (Of course, I don't think every word should be linked, but just about every word that someone might conceivably want to look up. Someone unfamiliar with taxonomy might want to look up "species", "family" and "genus" in the above.)
Timwi