Re: [Foundation-l] Adopting OmegaWiki as Wikimedia project

Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hoi, OmegaWiki is truly multi lingual in that depending on the amount of  
> content available in a language labels and annotations will show up in  
> the preferred language. Recently many of the relevant phrases were  
> localised in Telugu and consequently it became useful in Telugu.
>
> When a language is right to left the user interface and the data is  
> shown in the right to left direction.
>
> One or the more interesting things of OmegaWiki is that we do have links  
> to Commons and Wikipedia. This means that when you look for pictures of a
> "hobune" you will actually find them. Having links to Wikipedia means  
> that they can effectively work as interwiki links.

These seem more like things that just _aren't_ currently done on  
Wiktionary than things that need Ω because they _can't_ be. (I know the  
first at least was tried, but didn't really catch on, and 'hobune' has had  
a link to et.wiki since 2007—it's only convention that makes these links  
on a by-entry rather than a by-sense basis.)  Given that it does seem to  
be a product of its own culture, I agree with Milos' idea that it would be  
better as a separate Wiktionary, if it needed to take on the name of  
Wiktionary at all.

> As OmegaWiki has its data in a database, it is possible to use the data  
> in applications.

I don't suppose it comes in an ISO 1951:2007-compatible format?
The 'view source' button and Special:Export appear to be broken.  :|


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