Hoi,
The practice makes sense for Wiktionary. As a matter of fact I think I
added quite a few with my bot. My point is not that it would not make
sense, my point is that it does NOT easily connect to Wikidata. When a
separate Wikibase is used for this ... fine. That makes sense.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On 7 May 2015 at 12:03, Smolenski Nikola <smole...@eunet.rs> wrote:

> Citiranje Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>:
> > The interwiki links to Wiktionary are from an interwiki point of view
> > EXTREMELY easy to do. The problem with those links is that they cannot be
> > uniquely linked to existing items to Wikidata and thereby it becomes
> > unrealistic to do it in a meaningful way at this time.
> >
> > Wiktionary has one article for multiple lemmas in multiple languages and
> > they are based on the way they are written NOT on being about a subject.
>
> Would it be possible to ask the Wiktionary community to stop with this
> practice?
> I have never understood why is it done in the first place, never saw any
> benefit
> from it, nor known who came with the idea and why.
>
>
>
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