The feed news endpoint uses the approach of a language-to-selector map to organize the various ways of parsing news stories from template-generated Main Page news sections on a per-wiki basis.
A similar approach would likely be useful in the Wiktionary definition endpoint.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T151914 Support more languages in the Wiktionary definition endpoint | |||
| Declined | None | T151916 Use language-to-selector map in the Wiktionary definition endpoint |
We should be moving away from ad-hoc constructs like this and toward editor-maintained machine-readable markup.