[Foundation-l] Wiktionaries for all!

Sun May 2 18:18:52 UTC 2004

On Mon, 3 May 2004 03:26:36 +1000
"Tim Starling" <ts4294967296 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've set up Wiktionaries for all 146 languages that have a Wikipedia.
> There's known teething problems, however they should be good be working well
> enough now for people to get started. The most important problem is that
> many languages have a project namespace of "Wikipedia" (or the
> transliterated equivalent), but the interface messages point to
> "Wiktionary". I suggest that for the time being, people should put pages in
> the real Wikipedia: namespace, and set up redirects from the Wiktionary:
> pseudo-namespace where necessary. Wiktionaries with no language file, or
> with language files which use $wgMetaNamespace, do not suffer this problem.

Dump of wiktionaries can be found on http://download.wikimedia.org/index_wiktionary.php
I put a link from download.wikimedia.org

I will set up another page for 'special' wikis like quote, meta later.

Shaihulud