{"id":668,"date":"2004-10-26T02:44:38","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T06:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/10\/26\/despite-flaws-users-hope-for-domin"},"modified":"2004-10-26T02:44:38","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T06:44:38","slug":"despite-flaws-users-hope-for-dominance-of-wiktionary-mediawiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2004\/10\/26\/despite-flaws-users-hope-for-dominance-of-wiktionary-mediawiki\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite flaws, users hope for dominance of Wiktionary, Mediawiki"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

The O’Reilly Network’s Scott Hacker<\/span> wrote a piece on
\nwiki support yesterday,  Where’s the Movable Type of the Wiki World?<\/a>,
\npublished with some eloquent commentary by visitors at the end.<\/p>\n

Hacker suggests the Wiki world needs its own elegant, soup-to-nuts
\nwikiproject, comparing the chaos of wiki communities and documentation
\nto that of the blogging world pre-Movable Type.  He shopped around
\nfor a wiki to use for an educational project<\/span> (which was itself inspired
\nby WikiPedia, retro camel caps and all), and finally settled on
\nMediaWiki.  Unfortunately, its “scattered and obtuse”
\ndocumentation,  “stupidly difficult” customizations, and lack of
\ncompact, neatly packaged documentation for end-users, left him
\ncold.  <\/p>\n

U.Penn student Swarat Chaudhury<\/span>, writing for India’s venerable
\npaper The
\nStatesman<\/a>, is a bit more optimistic:<\/p>\n

“Wikipedia has spawned a sister project called Wiktionary
\n(http:\/\/www.wiktionary. org), a collaborative multilingual dictionary
\nwith pronunciations, etymology and quotations. The grand ambition of
\nthese projects is nothing short of letting the demos beat the experts
\nat their own game… Personally, I still rely on the OED most of the
\ntime, but I also look forward to a day when Wiktionary beats it hands
\ndown.<\/span>“\n<\/div>\n

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