[Wikipedia-l] Re: Cooperation between Wikipedia and Wiktionary using templates

Sun Oct 3 14:44:28 UTC 2004

Gerard, were you not the one working on the GEMET issue ? I am not sure, 
and I cant find the mails any more in the archive. If so, could you 
please answer to my previous mail on the topic. If not, do you know who 
could inform me ?

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Gerard Meijssen a écrit:
> Hoi,
> Wikipedia and Wiktionary are currently the two biggest projects of 
> Wikimedia (as far as I know). These projects are quite seperate from 
> each other. They are more seperate than is good for either project. 
> Typically, the type of information in Wiktionary cannot be found in 
> Wikipedia, things like translations and pronounciation are better 
> developped in Wikipedia while more more encyclopedic information can be 
> found in Wikipedia.
> 
> To enhance the cooperation I added a template in Wiktionary (both in en: 
> and nl) called -info-. This template will refer to the Wikipedia article 
> with the same name as the Wiktionary article.
> On Wikipedia (both en: and nl:) I have added a template called wikt, 
> this template has one parameter; this is the name of the article on 
> Wiktionary. The reason for a parameter is that Wikipedia has many 
> articles that are disambigued and given a name that differs from the 
> Wiktionary name. A second reason is that the nl:wiktionary does not have 
> first character capitalisation for article names any more. Here it is 
> important that the word is spelled correctly.
> 
> The importance of these interproject links is not only in giving more 
> information to our users, it is also important to make people aware that 
> dictionary content has its place and that it is really welcome in 
> Wiktionary. It makes for people that are used to contributing to 
> Wikipedia, to contribute to Wiktionary as well.
> 
> One nice word recently added to the nl:wiktionary is [[wikt:nl:grote 
> muggenorchis]], an orchid it has three translations. This information is 
> not really welcom on nl:wikipedia and this way it finds its place .. :)
> 
> Please add these functionalities to your wikipedia and wiktionary and 
> add it to the content you work on, it really makes us a greater 
> resource   !!
> 
> Thanks,
>    GerardM