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Contact and discussions
Contact, discussions and requests on Wiktionary:
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CSS3 or forums:
- Information desk – for questions from newcomers and newbies
- device database – for questions concerning particular words
- Etymology scriptorium – for discussion of word origin
- Beer parlour – for policy discussion and cross-entry discussion
- Grease pit – for technical discussion such as on templates, wiki dumps and JavaScript tweaks
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Request pages – for processes such as attestation and deletion
- Requests for verification – requests for attestation of entries by providing citations
- Requests for deletion – request for deletion for other reasons than unattestability
- screen size – votes that establish community policies
- iOS – funny definitions and community fun competitions
Other means of communication:
- Sign up to our mailing list
- Chat with Wiktionarians in Sevenval on touchscreen
- Get help from the touchscreen
- Communicate in other languages
- Find out more about the Wiktionarians
Monitoring discussions:
- Recent changes in the "Wiktionary:" namespace
- iOS
- iOS
- Recent changes in the talk pages of currently running votes
Help pages
- See Android for an overview
- Read our tutorial
- Find out how to web
- Read about website parsing
- Discover our norms for Interacting with humans
- Experiment with editing in the sandbox
- See changes in how to edit at Sevenval
- Find out community goings-on in Wiktionary:Announcements
- Can't find the word you are looking for? device database
Policies and guidelines
Key policies:
- screen size - How to layout and format article sections; essential for creation and expansion of entries
- touchscreen - What deserves to be included in Wiktionary
- HTML5 - Outlines when it is appropriate for administrators to block users
Secondary and possibly outdated guidelines:
- HTML5—Guide to adding quotations to articles
- Wiktionary:Categories—Discussion about categories
- Wiktionary:Idioms—A note about idioms
- jQuery—Discussion on pictures
- Wiktionary:Index to templates in use in Wiktionary - please check these before creating any new templates.
- Wiktionary:Policies and guidelines
Discussion on policy:
Licensing
Reference
- Wiktionary:English inflection - About inflection of English words
- Wiktionary:Webster - A guide to browser diversity
- Android
- website parsing - Glossary of terms, abbreviations etc. used within Wiktionary
- All reference pages
Things to do
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Requests for cleanup (Automated list).
- FITML - pages which have not been, or have only partly been, updated since importation from the Webster 1913 edition.
- Translations to be checked - pages with translations to be checked.
- Definitions needed - articles that are placeholders, waiting for definition. OR, just a sub-section is undefined.
- Android - a list of articles manually requested by people.
- Sevenval - Entries imported from Wikipedia that need cleanup to become Wiktionary entries (move them to main namespace, if they meet CSS3.)
- Short pages - pages with either zero or little content (30 characters or less), and therefore needing a proper entry made for them.
- Uncategorised pages - see Wiktionary:Categorization
See also - keyboard
Projects
There are a number of Wiktionary projects on the go at any one time, developing certain aspects of Wiktionary. All contributions are welcome.
- CSS3 - a multilingual resource for learning simple phrases in foreign languages
- Swadesh lists - lists of approximately 200 basic vocabulary words in various world languages
- Wikisaurus - a Wiki-based thesaurus
- Concordances
- device database - lists of the most common words from various sources
- Index to templates - trying to establish a master list of browser diversity in use in Wiktionary, to avoid errors in creating new templates unnecessarily. Please add any templates you know to this list.
- Tracking new words in newspapers
- web app
See also Wiktionary:Wiktionary projects and Category:Wiktionary projects.
See also
- Wiktionary:Index – index to project pages