On 02/01/07, Conrad Irwin
<conrad.irwin(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
When an obscure term is used in a body of text
that has no Wikipedia article
associated with it, the author of the article, at the moment, has to include
the meaning of the word in the article itself. Would it not make sense to
have a way of quickly making links to look up a word in Wiktionary,
something like {{define|miscellany}}.
Different words will be lost on different people. I've always wanted
some kind of javascript extension/tool where one can right-click a
word (or hold "D" and left click or something) and a small box will
open up with a Wiktionary definition of the word... Perhaps this has
already been written.
I can't see this as generally possible. It may work with more technical
terms that have a single definition, but beyond that many words have
multiple definitions. Which is most appropriate in a given context is a
matter of judgement.
A reader should, of course, be able to look up any word in Wiktionary.
There should be no need to define the word again in a Wikipedia article
unless it is the subject of the article.
Ec