Last modified: 2013-06-18 16:24:56 UTC
We need a machine-readable section, probably not visible for human readers, containing content for all terms. This pre-supposes agreeing on a data standard to support. There is a standard being used by many dictionary softwares, perhaps we should consider that as, at least, a base.
Another problem would be keeping the machine-readable section in sync with the human readable section. Another approach to keep them in synch would be to use something like a microformat where templates wrap parts of human readable text and add the machine readable info. This would of course make editing harder though, especially for beginners.
Alternative option: add machine readable elements to AutoFormat bot, or create similar bot to maintain machine-readable sections. (This could still be working in templates, or a combination of templates as bot marker.)
This looks like it is superseded by bug 36881 in nowadays' times. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36881 ***
(In reply to comment #3) > This looks like it is superseded by bug 36881 in nowadays' times. Bug 36881 is about Wiktionary. I didn't really get the sense that this bug (bug 21450) was about Wiktionary. However, I think this bug is too vague to be useful, so I won't re-open it in its current form. It could be re-opened and expanded.
<nods> This was about machine-readable content, not exclusive to wiktionary, which is not at all what 36881 is about. But it is too vague and was a fly-by enhancement bug.
