add more languages
It would be great if you can add additional languages to your offering.
Having this as a multilingual dictionary can really make me use it :-)
It would be great to have more languages, and we’re all in favor of multilingualism. However, we have a lot of work to do on the English part before we can branch out … but we’ll get there eventually!
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Sjors commented
I see you can already link words. In that case, may I suggest that a translation is treated as a synonym?
Whatever you do, please don't completely separate languages. Many systems (like Wikipedia and Google) do this, and it's very annoying for people who speak more than one language.
For example, I would rather read the English wikipedia article on South Park than the Dutch one, because it's more complete, but if I google it, I am always sent to the Dutch one.
In the context of this site: if I want to know the meaning of the Dutch word "konijn", I would be more than happy to read the English definition of "rabbit".
Perhaps you can add a "Don't show me stuff in [language name]" link. And you could list definitions in the preferred user language first.
Even a list of translations and synonyms in other languages can help one figure out what a word means.
And of course, people could translate meanings.
/end of brain dump/
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Sjors commented
You should probably store the language as a special kind of tag. Currently, I just tag new words with the name of the language.
Also, you can probably guess the language of a word, by figuring out the language of associated pages.
Finally, it would be great if you can link words (across languages)