A "WikiVocab" Project

[Stevey7788]

Great website guys! I've proposed a WikiVocab project on Meta-Wiki, and it looks like this is the closest wiki there is to achieving my dream project/database!

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiVocab


I'm wondering if it's possible to blend all of these websites together to make a big unified database on the world's languages.


Related external sites
"There is still no website that has comprehensive word lists of (almost) ALL the world's languages in one place!"


World languages - other existing wikis
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Swadesh_lists Wiktionary's Swadesh lists (the closest Wikiproject to this)
http://wikitravel.org/en/Phrasebooks WikiTravel phrasebooks
http://wiki.langwiki.info/Main_Page (Wikilang - this site)

World languages
http://zompist.com/numbers.shtml Numbers in Over 5000 Languages (The only database on the Internet with nearly all the world's languages in it; however, it only has the numerals 1-10.)
http://rosettaproject.org Rosetta Project
http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/ids/ Intercontinental Dictionary Series (excellent interactive searching)
http://wold.livingsources.org/vocabulary/ World Loanword Database
http://www.ethnologue.com Ethnologue (language demographics only)

Regional languages
http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/ Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database]
http://native-languages.org/
http://sealang.net/



Thanks a bunch!

[Stevey7788]

Also, a good way to promote this site is to add links to this website on Wiktionary and Wikipedia.

[hashi]

I think it could definitely be possible, but are you sure that a wiki format is the most flexible? Would it not be better to hard code the interface with a powerful database like MySQL behind it so that you can perform queries to find the words you wanted. I think this could be useful to filter out the particular words you want, while also using it to compare an infinite combination of languages which with a wiki would have to be done by opening both pages and flicking between them.

If you are not aware, we have already started this section which provides a bit of a starting point I would like to think.
http://wiki.langwiki.info/Vocab:Home