One of the important things for an open content project is cooperation. Currently every Wiktionary has its own community and, when Ultimate Wiktionary will become a reality, we hope that many wiktionarians will find there home in the Ultimate Wiktionary.
The biggest challenge however will be to grow both the content and the community. As there still a limited number of languages present, we do need to grow a presence, a community for the missing languages. For many languages including my own mother tongue, there is no comprehensive coverage yet. We will be searching for content to be added by our community and by incorporating existing glossaries, wordlists and thesauri.
Today I learned about a third way of making free content available, it is by use of the RFC 2229 a protocol to provide people dictionary information over the Internet. The trick here is that there is a database and that it does provide the information where it is available. So from a user point of view it would be great when we cooperate with dict.org.
There will be two issues that need to be resolved. We use the GNU-FDL license for our content and the GPL for our software and they use the GPL. In order to cooperate we will need to work something out. Licenses are a necessary evil but it would be a travesty if free licenses are found to be mutually exclusive.
RFC 2229 compliance would be for Ultimate Wiktionary mark II .. It is funny that Ultimate will be as much a work in progress as everything else.. Not really a suprise. :)
Thanks,
GerardM
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