KaiKemmann

“See also”, not “Similar terms”

Hi Kai,

Thanks for your contributions!

One note: there is no “Similar terms” section; we instead put these terms in “See also”, near the end of entries (WT:ELE#Order of headings). Please see Wiktionary:Semantic relations for other sections that may be appropriate (e.g., “Coordinate terms”), and WT:ELE for general points on entry formatting.

I’ve fixed the 5 cases where you did this, so there’s no need for cleanup on your part; if you could just use “See also” (or other standard sections) in future. Thanks again, and look forward to your continuing contributions!

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 21:50, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your friendly assistance, Nils.

-KaiKemmann (talk) 12:12, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

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German translations

Hey. I have two small requests with respect to German translations:

1. When providing German terms that don't merit their own article (e.g. verrückt machen in madden), you should link to the parts separately: [[verrückt]] [[machen]]. Terms such as verrückt machen are commonly called "SOP", sums of their parts, because they have no meaning beyond the meaning of their parts. You can read more about it here: WT:SOP
2. Having too many translations is not something we should strive for and especially not if it comes at the cost of accuracy. For instance, relative Adresse (among others) strikes me as a completely unfitting translation of displacement (the state of being displaced). It seems you have just mass-copied translations from dict.cc which you really shouldn't do. You can always add {{t-needed|de}} if you are unsure about the correct translations of a word.

— Fytcha〈 T | L | C 〉 12:36, 23 January 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for your message, Fytcha.

Your explanation and the sum of parts example is very helpful and I shall try to heed your advice in the future, although it obviously requires editing the source text instead of relying on the comfortable translation interface.

One could argue that having many translations would be conducive to improve the accuracy of a translation as it provides the chance to pick the term which actually carries the intended meaning.

The majority of words have manifold meanings depending on the context.

Relative Adresse for example seems to be a translation for displacement in computer science, referring to substituting the address of one location (on a storage device or computer memory) for another.

You cought me out on using mostly dict.cc to check translations and incidentally also using their assorted offerings to expand our list of translations. I have been quite enthusiastic about the quality and integrity of the dict.cc lexicon, though. Haven't you?

best regards, KaiKemmann (talk) 22:41, 4 March 2023 (UTC)