I fail to understand what the argument is about.
Gerard Meijssen wrote:
There is an acrimonious discussion on nl:wikipedia.
This has to do
with some people who consider wiktionary to be external to wikipedia
and, they consider the information that a dictionary supplies to be of
no additional value to wikipedia.
I would disagree with them about that.
I want to diffuse this situation and I need the help
from the
developpers for that. The content of other wikipedia's can be found by
clicking on the left hand side under "in other languages". I would
like a method that allows us to link to the wiktionary article in
that general area.
A link in the article should accomplish that more easily.
*This will remove any standard references to
wiktionary from the
wikipedia article itself.
Why would you want to do that?
*The content of a sister article in another wikipedia
should
(theoretically) not add information to a wikipedia article as, it
should only present the information in another language. As the
referal to other wikipedia's is an established fact, the inclusion in
that space of wiktionary information should not be a problem as
wiktionary DOES add relevant information to the wikipedia article
(translations, etymology, pronounciation etc)
The reality is that the sister article is written by a separate group of
people without reference to what is written in your chosen language.
There's no rule to say that they must have the same information in all
cases. Controversial subjects especially are affected by the attitudes
of the separate groups of participants.
* Technically, the link requires a parameter as some
wiktionaries do
not have first character capitalisation.
The link from Wiktionary to Wikipedia is not a
problem; here it is
accepted that encyclopedic information should find its way in
Wikipedia. The fact that dictionary information has no place in
Wikipedia is also an established and respected fact.
But there is some overlap.
Ec