Re: [lojban] Lojban Wiktionary closure proposal.

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 17 June 2012 13:43:51 Kevin Reid wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2012, at 12:57, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > I care deeply: I want it gone, and I've always wanted it gone.  It
> > dilutes effort that should go into jbovlaste (or its successor).
>
> A point of fact: Unless I am misinformed, or overgeneralizing from
> en.wiktionary.org, it is not fully duplicative of jbovlaste.
>
> jbovlaste stores definitions of Lojban words, written in many languages.
> <lang>.wiktionary.org stores definitions of many languages' words, written
> in <lang>.
>
> That is, jbo.wiktionary.org stores *definitions written in Lojban*, which
> is not the same thing as *definitions of Lojban words* except when those
> definitions are written in Lojban. en.wiktionary.org is a resource for
> English speakers to look up words, regardless of source language;
> jbo.wiktionary.org would be a resource for Lojban speakers to look up
> words.

Also, Wiktionary contains definitions of phrases, such as "lo xamgu ko li'i", 
symbols, and punctuation marks. Entries of verbs in inflected languages have 
conjugation tables (maybe not in the Lojban Wiktionary but in others). If you 
look up "i" in the Lojban Wiktionary, you'll see an example of the difference 
of usage between "i" in Tok Pisin and "cu" in Lojban.

I say, keep it.

Pierre

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