Dan Miller wrote:
I think the reason for this is that a dictionary
cannot really take advantage of the wiki structure.
Consider the dense interlinking that occurs in any
decent encyclopedia article; how would something like
that be useful, or even apply, in a dictionary?
I'm not sure I follow this train of thought. There may be fewer links
per Wiktionary entry on average as in a Wikipedia article, but it is
still pretty densely interlinked. E.g. [[Golden eagle]]:
=== Noun ===
'''[[golden]] [[eagle]]'''
# A [[bird]] [[species]] of the [[family]] ''[[Accipitridae]]'',
[[genus]] ''[[Aquila]]''.
====Scientific name====
* [[Aquila chrysaetos]]
9 links! ;-) In Wikipedia, you get less links per sentence because in an
encyclopedia the links should go to articles that are relevant to the
context. In a dictionary, the links just go to words, so theoretically
you could link absolutely every word! (Of course, I don't think every
word should be linked, but just about every word that someone might
conceivably want to look up. Someone unfamiliar with taxonomy might want
to look up "species", "family" and "genus" in the above.)
Timwi