[Lexicog] Wiktionary (was: Uzbek Wiktionary)

[Mike Maxwell]

On Dec 8 2005, Sabine Cretella wrote:
 
> I had a closer look at the Uzbek wiktionary and there are already some 
> pages, but I don't know if they are correct.

I have no idea whether these particular entries are correct, but I have 
observed s.t. odd about the Wiktionary. Namely, someone will post a few 
words of a particular language, but (apparently) without a definition. 
Those words will automatically (and of course incorrectly) link to 
definitions of homographs in _other_ languages.

For example, in the Tagalog index under the letter 'n' 
(http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Tagalog_index_n), the word 'nota' 
appears (it's a loanword from Spanish, see 
http://www.tagalog-dictionary.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?s=nota). But the 
wiktionary link takes you to what is apparently an Icelandic word + 
definition!

The use of two-letter language codes on the Wiktionary's language index 
page (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary) also makes it 
frustratingly hard to find a particular language. (There is a list on that 
page which uses language names, but it only includes "active" 
wiktionaries.)



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