"Wiktionary" anyone?

[Thomas Paikeday]

I am forwarding the correspondence below for the List's interest and
comments if any. I checked with Edward Gates and Enid Pearsons; they hadn't
seen this new type of dictionary. Please see
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page.
TOM PAIKEDAY

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" <jwales at wikia.com>
To: "Thomas Paikeday" <thomaspaikeday at sprint.ca>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: Wiktionary


> Hi!
>
> There is no "chief" but rather a community of interested volunteers.
> They would *welcome* your participation and assistance and advice,
> because expertise and experience like yours would go a long way
> towards helping us achieve our goals.
>
> --Jimbo
>
> Thomas Paikeday wrote:
>
>> Dear Jimmy Wales / Larry Sanger,
>>
>> As a practising lexicographer since 1964, I am impressed by your
>> Wiktionary. I am curious to know who is the chief linguist or
>> lexicographer behind this part of your project which is so expertly
>> designed and executed. I trust it is not a trade secret since the work is
>> of a scholarly or academic nature, not commercial.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY
>> www.paikeday.net
>
> --
> "La nèfle est un fruit." - first words of 50,000th article on
> fr.wikipedia.org
>