[Wikipedia-l] Cooperation between Wikipedia and Wiktionary using templates

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Wikipedia and Wiktionary are currently the two biggest projects of 
Wikimedia (as far as I know). These projects are quite seperate from 
each other. They are more seperate than is good for either project. 
Typically, the type of information in Wiktionary cannot be found in 
Wikipedia, things like translations and pronounciation are better 
developped in Wikipedia while more more encyclopedic information can be 
found in Wikipedia.

To enhance the cooperation I added a template in Wiktionary (both in en: 
and nl) called -info-. This template will refer to the Wikipedia article 
with the same name as the Wiktionary article.
On Wikipedia (both en: and nl:) I have added a template called wikt, 
this template has one parameter; this is the name of the article on 
Wiktionary. The reason for a parameter is that Wikipedia has many 
articles that are disambigued and given a name that differs from the 
Wiktionary name. A second reason is that the nl:wiktionary does not have 
first character capitalisation for article names any more. Here it is 
important that the word is spelled correctly.

The importance of these interproject links is not only in giving more 
information to our users, it is also important to make people aware that 
dictionary content has its place and that it is really welcome in 
Wiktionary. It makes for people that are used to contributing to 
Wikipedia, to contribute to Wiktionary as well.

One nice word recently added to the nl:wiktionary is [[wikt:nl:grote 
muggenorchis]], an orchid it has three translations. This information is 
not really welcom on nl:wikipedia and this way it finds its place .. :)

Please add these functionalities to your wikipedia and wiktionary and 
add it to the content you work on, it really makes us a greater 
resource   !!

Thanks,
    GerardM