Dictionaries

I was at a conference last week designed to make connections between Gaelic, Gaelige and Welsh organisations.

One of the points was translation, it was suggested there should be an effort too create Gaelic-Gaelige-Welsh dictionaries.

The taken approach to this was a University funded project. This jarred with me, having experiencing the sucess of open collaborative projects like the English Wikipedia.

The Wiktionary is a sister project to the Wikipedia which features ~300k legitmate articles compared to the million plus of the wikitionary.

The Gaelic, Gaelige and Cumrish wikipedias are all about the same level of 5k articles. With their sister wiktionary projects are in infancy.

Theses projects are built to allow you to navigate easily between languages. I believe that if a community can be formed around these projects, it would be of greater benefit than a traditionally University led project, as the content would be openly licensed and I believe that it could be achieved with little capital investment

The question is how to stimulate activity?