User:Hemanshu/Wikipedia and Wiktionary

I have been talking about this since quite a while (although without any concrete proposal)... using Wikipedia's popularity to benefit Wiktionary.

Jimbo Wales showed up in IRC and I took the opportunity to talk with him about it. I had already discussed it on the IRC channel.

Here's a transcript of the chat  hello Hello!  I was wondering if Wikipedia should incorporate links to Wiktionary in articles?  Wiktionary is really lacking interest It sounds like a reasonable concept to me.  we need to use Wikipedia's popularity to make Wiktionary more popular I agree with that.  good I can think of two ways... First, encourage more interwiki linking with wiktionary, somehow. Possibly even go so far as to have a bit of new markup.  yes  maybe we can have a small icon link next to words Second, we could put a link on every page of wikipedia, "Look for a definition of 'Article Title' in Wiktionary".  yeah That second one might generate resistance, though, because many many times the article title is not really a word that needs defining, per se. Take a look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Japan just an example for us to brainstorm about. Now, that article has interlanguage links for 'fr' and 'ja' versions of the same topic. Perhaps a simple extension of the interlanguage syntax, but for definitions, would be sensible.  yeah I see  yes Here's a better brainstorm:  that would make it possible to link to definitions of article titles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladistics  and that could be implemented really easily There are 4 interlanguage links there. We could have a new one, like:  being able to provide quicklinks to definitions of word used in the article could be more difficult definiton:paraphyletic could be the simple new markup.  yeah And that magically makes a a link, in the text at that point, to wiktionary. I would support something along those lines. Will you run this by wikipedia-l and wikitech-l? I'll make noises of joy.  :) Maybe it will excite someone and then it might happen.  I haven't joined the mailing list <Hemanshu> I just have to send an email to? <Hemanshu> wikipedia-1@? <Hemanshu> can I post this conversation on the wiki? Yeah <Hemanshu> ok Anyhow, talk to you later I'm going to have to go. <Hemanshu> ok <Hemanshu> nice talking