On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Steve Summit <s...@eskimo.com> wrote: > Anthony wrote: >> The failures of Wikinews and Wiktionary are probably due in large part >> to imposition of too much structure - in Wiktionary the formatting >> requirements... > > Not sure I'd call Wiktionary a "failure". But if it is, it's > arguably a failure of Mediawiki to adequately support that > structure, which is necessary for a dictionary (especially a > multilingual one).
If Mediawiki is keeping the Wiktionarians from succeeding, then they should fork Mediawiki. But I don't think that's the real problem. A better candidate would that the imposition of top-down structure in a wiki just doesn't work. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
