Citiranje Yair Rand <yyairr...@gmail.com>: > The Wiktionary communities tend to strongly disagree that splitting entries > per language would be easier for either editors or readers. It has been > discussed before numerous times over the years.
I do not see this strong disagreement. The last discussion about it was at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Grease_pit/2014/February#Embrace_the_wiki and to me it seems that the majority of users support it. (Other discussions are listed at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Per-language_pages_proposal#Past_discussions ) > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Smolenski Nikola <smole...@eunet.rs> wrote: > > Citiranje Jo <winfi...@gmail.com>: > > > What you get on a Wiktionary page is a description of words in several > > > languages with that particular spelling. Of course 1 spelling can also > be > > > several words in 1 language already. > > > > And why? Why not having a separate page for every language, while the > > spelling > > would just be a disambiguation page? This would be easier for Wiktionary > > readers, writers and for linking with Wikidata. > > > > > 2015-05-07 12:03 GMT+02:00 Smolenski Nikola <smole...@eunet.rs>: > > > > > > > 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. _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
