User talk:Useigor/Sandbox

Looks sexy! I'm very fond of structural layout. We should also do it for etymologies and related terms - see e.g. how Google Dictionary does it: [1] (click on the bottom arrow that says Translations, word origin, and more definitions and scroll a bit). --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 17:36, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Actually i invented this form long time ago in ~ 04.05.14, it evolved from Europe map with highlighted Slavic countries (23.01.14), it happened because it was uncomfortable for me to color and use them. This form can be downscaled to 11x11px, it takes few seconds to draw it in Paint.NET. Unfortunately Google doesn't show what you mean, i see only word 'thought' and its translation. Could you describe? —Игорь Телкачь 18:29, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

[2]. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 21:08, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

Related terms — Baltic and other IE? —Игорь Телкачь 08:16, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Yeah but with the inverted tree, from closest to the most distant relatives.

See also the layout of entries in this dictionary (ignore the content, it's a self-published work based on obsolete scholarship). It's so much easier to visually parse it than text. We could use arrows of different types to denote different types of relationships (borrowing/inheritance/calquing), different color groups for different lang families, put glosses on hover and so on. But this would require some programming in JavaScript, so I guess the tables would suffice for now to compensate for the wasted horizontal space in the descendants list. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 10:47, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Well, it's interesting but i have no idea how tree can be made in Wiki, moreover with arrows. I'm not familiar with other IE languages, so i don't know how i can help (my version may be unreliable). Also i'm not sure that all will agree with such representation if you mean to use it in articles. —Игорь Телкачь 14:28, 8 March 2015 (UTC)