Wiktionary:Community Portal

Contact and discussions

Contact, discussions and requests on Wiktionary:

Discussion rooms or forums:
- Information desk – for questions from newcomers and newbies
- Tea room – 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
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
Votes – votes that establish community policies
Fun stuff – funny definitions and community fun competitions

Other means of communication:

Monitoring discussions:

Key policies:

Wiktionary:Entry layout explained – How to layout and format article sections; essential for creation and expansion of entries
Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion – What deserves to be included in Wiktionary
Wiktionary:Blocking policy – Outlines when it is appropriate for administrators to block users

Secondary and possibly outdated guidelines:

Wiktionary:Quotations – Guide to adding quotations to articles
Wiktionary:Categories – Discussion about categories
Wiktionary:Idioms – A note about idioms
Wiktionary:Pictures – 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:

Wiktionary:English inflection – About inflection of English words
Wiktionary:Webster – A guide to Webster's Dictionary
Wiktionary:Utilities
Wiktionary:Glossary – Glossary of terms, abbreviations etc. used within Wiktionary
All reference pages

Requests for cleanup (Automated list).
Webster 1913 entries – 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.
Requested entries – a list of articles manually requested by people.
Special:Random/Transwiki – entries imported from Wikipedia that need cleanup to become Wiktionary entries (move them to main namespace, if they meet WT:CFI.)
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

There are a number of Wiktionary projects on the go at any one time, developing certain aspects of Wiktionary. All contributions are welcome.

Phrasebook – 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
Frequency lists – lists of the most common words from various sources
Index to templates – trying to establish a master list of templates in use in Wiktionary, to avoid errors in creating new templates unnecessarily. Please add any templates you know to this list.
- Inflection templates
Tracking new words in newspapers

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