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Current projects

None

Future ideas

Implement consensus-supported RFMs

Implement requests for moves, mergers, and splits where consensus has been established to do so.

Add rhyme syllable counts

Description

Use the subcategories of Category:English words by number of syllables to automatically add syllable counts to existing {{rhymes|en}} templates.

Discussion

• Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2024/April § Copying rhyme syllable counts from existing categories

Implementation

I have written a Python script to do this, but have not tested it yet.

Populate thesaurus entry categories

Description

Category:English thesaurus entries (and likely its siblings) severely under-represent the actual population of applicable thesaurus entries. These categories are supposed to be populated by {{ws header}}'s |lang= parameter. It seems that {{ws header}} is widely used (at least in English entries), but the optional |lang= parameter is often not used. I want to:

1. Modify {{ws header}}'s parameters.
   1. Bump the existing |1= (used to optionally specify an alternative term to display) down to |2=.
   2. Create |1= as an optional parameter to replace |lang=. This makes the template more consistent with other widely-used templates (such as {{m}}, {{head}}, {{IPA}}). This parameter's value should be a comma separated list of language codes. These should be used to add the entry to all corresponding thesaurus entry categories.
   3. Deprecate |lang= in favour of the new |1=.
2. Fix thesaurus entries.

For all entries in the Thesaurus namespace:

If the entry contains {{ws header}} and |lang= is specified:

Move the value of |lang= to |1=.

Else if there is at least one L2 heading:

Extract the languages from all the L2 headings, convert them to a language codes, and add them as |1=.

Else (there are no L2 headings):

Maybe add the entry to a list for manual review.

1. Make {{ws header}}'s |1= required.

Discussion

• Wiktionary:Grease pit/2023/January § Category:English thesaurus entries. Credit to User:Brittletheories for bringing this up and prompting me to do something about it.

Category:Body

Description

Category:Body should be renamed Category:Human body and made a subcategory of Category:Human rather than Category:All topics.

Discussion

None yet.

Categorize appendices

There are several blocks of similarly named appendix subpages listed at Wiktionary:Todo/Lists/Uncategorised pages (all namespaces) § Appendix that look bot-categorizable.

Parent page	Proposed categories for subpages
Subpages of Appendix:Chinese radical	Category:Chinese appendices, Category:Japanese appendices, Category:Korean appendices, Category:Vietnamese appendices, Category:Han script appendices
Subpages of Appendix:Chinese total strokes	Category:Chinese appendices, Category:Japanese appendices, Category:Korean appendices, Category:Vietnamese appendices, Category:Han script appendices
Subpages of Appendix:Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms	Category:English appendices unless someone can find a more specific category
Subpages of Appendix:JLPT	Category:Japanese appendices, Category:Basic word lists by language

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Past projects

See /Past projects.