Community Wishlist/Wishes/Display definitions from Wikisource dictionaries
Description
Wiktionaries aims to offer for each meanings only one definition but there are many ways to sentence a phrase to explain a meaning, many words - including local ones (i.e. an American-centered definition and an Indian-centered one for the same word) and very technical terms sometimes with more or less vulgarized explanations. A synthetic definition is a challenge, but more than one definition for each meanings should be a better strategy for neutrality.
Some alternative definitions from other open dictionaries could be presented to the audience in the reference section but there is no way of doing that now, despite the large amount of definition already accessible only and especially, in a Wikimedia project: Wikisource!
Wikisources contain a lot of dictionaries and we should use them to display more definitions. A dedicated transclusion of paragraphs from Wikisource in Wiktionaries would be a way, by hand/bot or with an automatic harvesting of entries with a specific tagging in the dictionaries hosted in Wikisources.
Maybe with an automatic tool or with manual linking?
They could come from several Wikisources, to be display in several Wiktionaries. It could be a new tab next to "Article" and "Talk", named "Dictionaries" with definitions for the same sequence of letters from dictionaries published in Wikisource.
For French, I can imagine at least a dozen of definitions from as much dictionaries. For under-described languages with at least one source in Wikisource, it could be an interesting way to compare the source and how it evolve after its inclusion in Wiktionary.
Assigned focus area
Unassigned.
Type of wish
Feature request
Related projects
Wiktionary, Wikisource
Affected users
Readers wanting more than one definition, with different perspective. Wikisource editors to display and valorize their work.