RE: Ultimate Wiktionary and design decisions

If there were an Ultimate Wiktionary, I'd like to have ang available in
Latin and Runic sets.

James

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[Gerard Meijssen ([Wiktionary-l] Ultimate Wiktionary and design decisions)
writes:]
>> For the Ultimate Wiktionary I have documented some of the design
>> criteria. It can be found here:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_decisions_on_its_usage

>> The Data design can be found here:
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Wiktionary_data_design

I have added some comments to the Discussion pages of those two.

>> One crucial decision is that only correct spelling is allowed.

Fine, as long as you are going to cater for multiple correct spellings.
If you don't it's going to be difficult for some languages, e.g.,
English, and impossible for others, e.g.. Japanese.

>> This
>> means that all incorrect spelling will be amended or deleted. As
>> Ultimate Wiktionary is a database, it does not cater for things like
>> redirects. I urge you to have a look at both the design criteria and the
>> design itself because this is the time when it is relatively easy to
>> make changes. Once Erik starts coding the UW database, having finished
>> Wikidata and the GEMET implementation, the moment has passed us by.

Indeed.

Jim

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