Many things on Wiktionary would be best if they were language-specific. Some things already are, some experiments are being carried out on other things, and yet more things should be for a good Internet dictionary or all languages in the future.
We can assume that most users of the English Wiktionary will only ever be interested in English. We can assume that the next largest group of users will be interested in English and one other language. This would be people who speak English as a second language as well as English speakers learning a new language. A third group will be people who are interested in three or more languages.
To permit people to choose which languages they want to deal with we need a language tab. For language options to work for various current and future JavaScript and PHP extensions we need standards for language names, language codes, category names, cookie names, CSS class names, etc.
Language-specific features:
- Random page in a language: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~cmackenzie/rnd-wikt.html
- Edittools
- Language tabs: http://wiktionarydev.leuksman.com
- Requests: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Requested_articles / http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Translation_requests
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement