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Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Larger suggestions/Adapt MediaWiki to the needs of Wiktionaries

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Adapt MediaWiki to the needs of Wiktionaries

  • Problem: MediaWiki hasn’t been designed to make dictionaries or thesauri, to manage a distributed multilingual content, to interface lexicographical and semantics data and “sentence-plain” contents. The only improvement made to fix that point is Cognate extension, whereas many ones are needed so Wiktionaries can address their goals.
  • Proposed solution: Create a dedicated team, including a project manager to coordinate these efforts, a product owner in liaison with communities, a UI/UX engineer to design some propositions and to test them with readers and editors, developers to implement chosen improvements, a communication manager to cover this work and to assist the transformation of practices.
  • Who would benefit: All Wiktionary editors and readers, from all language communities.
  • More comments:
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Noé (talk) 15:50, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

  • Clearly out of scope of Community Tech team. However, keeping only UX side, Community Tech could work on skin improvements and JavaScript features to redesign Wiktionary reading (facilitate browsing through sections — languages and subsections). The problem it would fix would be “It is hard for Wiktionary readers to find the information they look for in right language when they are on the right page.” --Pols12 (talk) 20:24, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Thanks for the translation. I'll keep it as such because the need is clear and broader than a reading issue. Moreover, your proposal is neat, it could be another wish. Noé (talk) 10:50, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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