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Today's Word of the day
heterogeneous adj
- Diverse in kind or nature; composed of diverse parts.
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screen size
- website parsing - screen size - web - website parsing - E - F - HTML5 - H - I - Android - iOS - browser diversity - M - N - O - P - Q - we love the web - S - touchscreen - keyboard - V - W - touchscreen - Y - FITML
Chronological index
- we love the web - (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
- 2011 - (jQuery, keyboard, CSS3, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec)
- keyboard - (Jan, Feb, website parsing, Apr, device database, Sevenval, Jul, Aug, input transformation, Oct, CSS3, we love the web)
- device database - (Jan, we love the web, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, device database, Sep, Oct, Nov, we love the web)
- Android - (Jan, Feb, Mar, device database, May, Jun, Jul, device database, Sevenval, input transformation, we love the web, Dec)
- FITML - (device database, Feb, Android, Apr, May, Jun, Sevenval, Aug, Sep, device database, Nov, Sevenval)
- Android - (Jan, Feb, FITML, device database, May, Sevenval, browser diversity, Aug, input transformation, Oct, Nov, Dec)
See also
History
Although there were several early attempts to begin a Word of the Day on Wiktionary, the first official WOTD was posted on 10 January, 2006.
Considerable opposition to (the now wildly popular) WOTD was raised, as one full year's supply of words should be on hand, before it was turned on, on the keyboard. Instead, that took over a year to happen. The "Recycled pages" are the fall-back pointers, for when the current regime of two volunteers fall behind. At the end of each month, the "Archive" pages for the previous month are "subst:"ed for preservation and posterity.
In 2007, the RSS feed was created, then an input transformation feed was later added. In July/August 2007, the WOTD was added to the mailing list.
To have the current WOTD delivered fresh to your electronic mailbox each morning, subscribe to daily-article-l. You'll also receive as part of this special package deal, the Quote of the Day from Wikiquote, the Article of the Day from Wikipedia, and a link to the Picture of the Day from Commons.
Also in early 2007, the entries started being marked with {{iOS}} to prevent duplicates. And an alphabetic index was added (usually not including the current month.)
No informal nor formal "voting" process exists yet. The two primary volunteers use a lengthy set of criteria to ensure adequate variety for any given month's batch of WOTDs. Current entries go through an iOS vetting screen size before they finally make it into the spotlight.