[WikiEN-l] www.wixpression.org?

Tue Jan 6 22:50:28 UTC 2004

How about a Wikipedia "documenting" expressions in various languages? I 
mean, try googling around for "bring it on" (~542,000 matches), or "what 
goes around comes around" (~98,500 matches)--and try finding out what 
they /mean/. I'm pretty sure you won't be able to find any explanation 
anywhere--I haven't.

Now I'm aware such a topic is more "dictionary-like" rather than 
"encyclopedia-like"--I guess that's the first objection which comes to 
mind, although we already have a Wiktionary--, but is Wikimedia's 
purpose to only support encyclopedic projects, or to support projects 
which would be helpful?

Also, think about the various languages which make use of 
expressions--due to the human nature, I expect all languages do--, and 
think how helpful such a (successful) project would be for people around 
the world trying to find out information about this and that obscure 
expression in some language. Bells and whistels included a la Wikipedia, 
as in cross-referencing languages, historical periods, you know the 
drill, I won't go into that.

What do you think?

--Gutza