Hi, Omegawiki might be great, ok, I don't put that into question. But there are reasons why /some/ people did continue working in Wiktionary. It does not contain flexion tables, genders etc. and I personally find it confusing. If You close them You will lose people starting with me.
E. 2010/7/19 Milos Rancic <[email protected]> > (Just poking foundation-l, please continue with discussion at > wiktionary-l, or, better, at Meta [1]) > > During Wikimania I asked Gerard Meijssen would he be willing to give > OmegaWiki to Wikimedia. He said that he doesn't have anything against > it: software is free, content is free. More precisely, he told to me > "Take it!" :) > > My initial idea was that it would be the best to replace all > Wiktionaries with OmegaWiki. However, the last day of Wikimania I was > talking with one Swedish guy who is working on Swedish Wiktionary. He > has complained that philologists like more open form for writing > dictionary. Thus, my suggestion is to adopt OmegaWiki as one of > Wiktionaries, probably as http://wiktionary.org/, similarly to the > multilingual Wikisource. > > And, of course, before possible adoption we need discussion and some > software improvements of Wikidata extension. > > [1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Adopt_OmegaWiki > > * * * > > As multilingual projects are not in the scope of the [[Language > committee]], before the implementation (or not) of the idea, community > should discuss about it. > > [http://www.omegawiki.org/ OmegaWiki] is a formal multilingual > dictionary based on MediaWiki extension > [[:mw:Extension:Wikidata|Wikidata]]. > > No matter would it be the only Wiktionary or it would be just one of > the Wiktionaries, OmegaWiki would raise quality of Wiktionaries. At > the other side, the project would get much more attention as a > Wikimedia project. > > Wikidata extension should be improved (from user experience and > linguistic points of view) before implementation as Wikimedia project. > > [[User:GerardM|Gerard Meijssen]], the founder of OmegaWiki project, > doesn't have anything against adopting it as a Wikimedia project. > > == Advantages and disadvantages of adopting OmegaWiki == > > === Advantages === > * It is possible to create one billion entries per Wiktionary: All > synthetic languages could import at least ~10M of words, but probably > more if all common phrases are counted. Thus, it means that we need > just 100 synthetic or polysynthetic languages to create one billion > entries per Wiktionary. This is very large number and while it is > possible to keep technically one such project, presently it is hardly > possible to keep a number of projects with more than billion of > entries. > * It is structured formally. > * ... > > === Disadvantages === > * Philologists like more open form for dictionaries. > * OmegaWiki is distant from the wiki principle. Software fixes should > make it closer. > * ... > > == How to adopt OmegaWiki == > * Instead of all Wiktionaries. > * As www.wiktionary.org, like www.wikisource.org is the place for > multilingual Wikisource. > * As mul.wiktionary.org (ISO 639-5 code for multilingual entities) > * ...? > > == Minimums for adopting OmegaWiki == > > === If OmegaWiki replaces all Wiktionaries === > * Evaluation of software by linguists and adding necessary linguistic > features. > * Fixing bugs in software if needed. > * Adding all needed features to satisfy philological needs. > * Importing all data from Wiktionaries. > > === If OmegaWiki becomes one of the Wiktionaries === > * Evaluation of software by linguists and adding necessary linguistic > features. > * Fixing bugs in software if needed. > > == Licensing == > > OmegaWiki licences are CC-BY and GFDL. It is a bit of pleonasm, as > CC-BY is a subset of GFDL (and CC-BY-SA as well). > > * Licensing should probably stay CC-BY, not CC-BY-SA. There is a legal > problem of copyrighting words, phrases, sentences and definitions, > which mean that it would be probably better to leave the least > restrictive license as the OmegaWiki license. > * ... > > [[Category:Requests for comments]] > > _______________________________________________ > Wiktionary-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l > _______________________________________________ Wiktionary-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiktionary-l
