Talk:Wikisaurus

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Couldn't this be included in the Wiktionary?

Wiktionary is already a thesaurus and a dictionary. At this point, Wikisaurus is just a proposed mascot for Wiktionary. --Maveric149 21:22 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)

It's not the suggested kind of thesaurus... (suggested after your comment above, I believe). That (and the Getty example in the exal links sexn) could become quite awesome, if a bit cognitively tiring to create -- and would share just about no content or layout design with the current Wiktionary. +sj+ 04:34, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

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This name is horrible. Everybody will immediately think of dinosaurus. Either that or something really antiquated. --Menchi 12:04, 9 Dec 2003 (UTC)

I think people /will/ think of dinosaurus, but it's kinda cute...

@Wikisaurus: 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 22:14, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

Looks like something about dinosaurs indeed... Wikisaurus (talk) 22:57, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

name: horrible, idea: ok for meta

I think that a thesaurus is an interesting possible use of a wiki. I think it deserves to be kept arround, even as a showing that mediawiki isn't well suited for the task. Possibly move to Wiki Thesaurus, (redirect is automatically created). AaronPeterson 11:59, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Looks like an interesting idea. A dictionary project would also be interesting. Wiktionary seems to have drifted very far from being a dictionary, judging by the en entry for car, which is mostly off topic for an English dictionary. Much of the translation part might well be interesting in a different namespace included in the entry indirectly, though, so both a pure language dictionary and a tranalator's dictionary could be created. Maybe one per language so you could select the languages you want? And that might be where a thesaurus namespace enters the picture, with similar handling to the translations... and that might in turn make a thesauruse project redundant, so long as you could easily distribute just the thesaurous part of a combined work. Hmmm... Jamesday 16:32, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)