OK - this would mean some organisation - how many active editors are there? Do you have the possibility to mail all people who inserted their e-mail address? Otherwise you need to use the message that is shown on every page until work is over (this will maybe need some more time, but it works as well). You need to create a wordlist with all words in it. You need to create a page with "words to be checked" and one with "words to be devided" (for people who ave difficulties in this). The page with "all words" may not be a category or simply the all words list - it must be a page where you can insert and delete the single words (it should be possible to be able to create the list froma dump). Who contributes simply takes the words he is "moving" (working on) off the list - the admins have enough work with deleting all the re-directs (or is there a way to do this automatically) maybe modifying the page and writing "to be deleted" instead of the re-direct? Anyone should be asked to do at least 10 words a day - if 2000 editors help: this is an effort of three days with 60000 words. Ciao, Sabine -- Sabine Cretella Translations IT-DE, EN-DE s.cretella(a)wordsandmore.it Meetingplace for translators http://www.wesolveitnet.com ***** Vuoi la parola del giorno nella tua casella di posta? Invia un'e-mail vuota a: laparoladelgiorno-subscribe(a)yahoogroups.com

Muke Tever wrote: Hoi, You delete the redirects because they are plain wrong. A word that has has both a capitalised version and a non capitalised version will be split into two versions. The usage of wikipedia's link to Wiktionary currently does indeed use PAGENAME, how do you know that it still refers to the correct version of the word ?? You do not ! So it needs to be changed as PAGENAME is not good enough. It is feasible to change the PAGENAME to something else for instance a genuine parameter that is either capitalised or not. I think it would be feasible to have a bot check the occrurence of the old template and change it for a capitalised or an uncapitalised REAL parameter. So practically all the instances of the current template need to be changed anyway. The decision of the capitalisation on en:wiktionary has been made, now it is necessary to plan a good conversion plan. It will hurt and it will be a lot of work. Extra painfull is the fact that the en:wiktionary did not agree to change the first time round because MANY new words have been added in the mean time. I think it is better to suffer a bit and do a good job than to do an incomplete job and not remove the pain. One other reason why you want to change the current wiktionary content is because you will not add redirects for all the new words that will be added in the future. Thanks, GerardM

Ray Saintonge wrote: Hi Eclecticology, What do you propose and wouldn't that discussion risk muddying the waters again? If a developer toggles the switch, at first there would be no difference. Then people will start converting entries and there will be disruption for several months, maybe even more than a year. I don't think this can be avoided. I think all the contributors will simply take it in their stride and simply convert entries as they go. In the mean time all the existing content gets revised, which isn't a bad thing. There will probably be a slowdown in the addition of new entries, but I think it's a good opportunity to broaden the scope of the existing content. Kind regards, Polyglot