Given the problems with Geoffrin I have been patient in my hope that some day our own search function will some day rise again from its ashes.
I have been having a bit of discussion with User Długosz http://wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:D%C5%82ugosz&action=edit : at Talk:Appendix:Words From Sherlock Holmes http://wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:Appendix:Words_From_Sherlock_Holmes on Wiktionary. It makes me wonder how realistic it would be to have a properly functioning search function take a text(s) that we have in Wikisource and create a concordance to better illustrate variations in a a word's usage over the year for purposes of building value added into Wiktionary.
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