Muke Tever wrote:
Redirects are
not an appropriate tool for spell checks.
Then what do you suggest would replace it, so the dictionary
can be useful?
There are several reasons why redirects will not work.
* At this moment in time, there are some 76.000 words. When you have
some 760.000 words, you will have a need to add a redirect for every
added word. I do not think that this is reasonable to ask from the
contributors to Wiktionary.
* When a word exists both as a capitalised word and as a noncapitalised
word, you will not be directed from one to the other word. This works
both ways.
* In a paper dictionary you only find words in the proper capitalisation.
* When the content of the Ultimate Wiktionary is to be used for spell
checking, there will be software that will perform this functionality.
The functionality that will allow for uppercase that is typically not
correct will be in the software not in the content of the UW. Even so,
certain words are only correct in a certain context, otherwise words
like their and there can be used without it being recoginised. This is
to say that there is more to spellchecking than what can be indicated by
redirects in any Wiktionary.
Consequently, as far as I am concerned redirects are of no use
whatsoever in any Wiktionary. Your arguments against having words in the
proper case do not convince me, but you already knew that.
Thanks,
GerardM