http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/in-praise-of-wiktionary/ Treacle tarts for great justice Sat, 18 May 2013 12:14:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/in-praise-of-wiktionary/comment-page-1/#comment-3759 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:08:34 +0000 http://aharoni.wordpress.com/?p=1855#comment-3759 Oh, the mythical Forcellini dictionary. :-)
You’re right about Wiktionary: it’s the first Wikimedia project I edited, in 2005, but I never really believed in it, until a few years ago, when I saw that somehow en.wikt managed to become a sufficiently structured and useful dictionary, which I thought impossible.
I never wrote my proposal for dictionary under https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Make_Wikimedia_projects_scale but I believe that what’s needed is an initial critical mass and structure imported from an external source, on which to build. All the successful Wiktionaries did it at some point (most notably en, fr, ru) and with WMIT we’re currently trying to do the same for it.wikt with an old public domain dictionary.
http://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikizionario:Importazione_dizionari_PD

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