Bhante Dhammanando and all Pali friends,

Thank you for your reply.

> Yes, it could well be that a panoply of Pali lists catering
> to specialist interests is the best solution.

Such lists would be surely united by people subscribed to several
lists, so there will be a kind of common Pali space.

> In addition to
> those you have outlined, I would add a list for Pali
> translators. My idea is of a forum to which aspiring
> translators can post their efforts for review and criticism
> by both traditionally (monastically) and academically
> trained Pali scholars, and the more capable autodidacts.

As a translator, I need such a list. Even reading suttas in own
language is a kind of translation, a hermeneutical enterprise.

> > I have an experience of maintaining such Russian forum
> > dedicated to Pali terms. It proved to be quite useful.
> > Topical threads are very easy to find and refer to, and the
> > new opinions are easily added.
>
> I intend that to be a sub-topic on my translators' list. In
> particular, a re-evaluation of Nyanatiloka's legacy in
> this area is long overdue.

That would be a precious work.

What I am concerned about is availability of accumulated knowledge.
How a person can find opinions on the meaning of particular word?

One option is the forum dedicated to Pali terms, like a tentative
http://www.dhamma.ru/sadhu/modules/newbb/

Another option is a Pali Wikipedia like
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:Pali_language
http://wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page:Pali
http://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Best wishes,
Dmytro Ivakhnenko