Hippietrail

Some of my dictionaries, grammars, and language books.

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en This user is a native speaker of English. es-2 Esta persona tiene un conocimiento intermedio del español. de-1 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf grundlegendem Niveau. ja-1 この利用者は初級の日本語ができます。 fr-1 Cet utilisateur dispose de connaissances de base en français.
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A Latn-N This user's native script is Latin. ש Hebr-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Hebrew script. Ω Grek-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Greek script. Ж Cyrl-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Cyrillic script. ض Arab-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Arabic script. ლ Geor-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Georgian script. 蓮 Jpan-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Japanese script. 글 Hang-2 This user has an intermediate understanding of the Hangul script. द Deva-1 This user has a basic understanding of the Devanagari script. ລ Laoo-1 This user has a basic understanding of the Lao script.
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Who?

I’m an Aussie who has lived in most states of Australia. I’ve worked in the printing industry, as a software engineer, and in tourism. I do a lot of travelling, usually for long periods of time. Most recently one year hitchhiking around Taiwan, mainland China, Mexico, Laos, Thailand, and Malaysia.

My first (logged-in) edit on Wiktionary was on 10 December 2003 where I added translations to the English definite article, the. Prior to that I had just started playing with Wikipedia after a few years on Everything2. I was very excited to find Wiktionary since I’d been thinking for years that the world needed a free dictionary of every language that could be contributed to by anybody and everybody over the Internet. I discussed the idea with some people at the GUADEC, the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. At that time I was an active contributor to AbiWord, an open source word processor.

My long term dream for Wiktionary is to make it queryable like a database. This requires much work on standardisation of formats and on parsing.

My JavaScript

• User:Hippietrail/addstructure.js

  wraps HTML divs around the sections delineated by headings

• User:Hippietrail/ajaxtranslinks.js

  in translation tables turns blue links orange if the specified language has no entry on that page

• User:Hippietrail/apitest.js

  some old experiment

• User:Hippietrail/citetab.js

  deprecated since the citations tab has been standard for a long time now

• User:Hippietrail/custom-alpha.js

  development version of the WT:PREFS code

• User:Hippietrail/custom.js

  the WT:PREFS code

• User:Hippietrail/debugportlet.js

  old extension to provide an area in the navbar for other extensions to output debug info

• User:Hippietrail/domtokenizer.js

  old experiment to use a recursive parser on the DOM of the translation table

• User:Hippietrail/editor.js

  for when I want to experiment with conrad's official version of editor.js

• User:Hippietrail/filtercontribs.js

  hide those of my contributions which have not changed since I edited them

• User:Hippietrail/firebug.js
• User:Hippietrail/headingtooltips.js

  provide explanatory tooltips for standard headings

• User:Hippietrail/hippajax.js

  library for doing Ajax calls, no longer used in new code

• User:Hippietrail/localisenavbars.js

  experiment to use Ajax for localised versions of some interface text

• User:Hippietrail/monobook.js

  my custom JavaScript

• User:Hippietrail/navbars.js
• User:Hippietrail/nearbypages-alpha.js

  development version of nearbypages.js

• User:Hippietrail/nearbypages.js

  adds links to previous and next pages for each language section with correct alphabetical order for many languages

• User:Hippietrail/perlanguage-alpha.js

  development version of perlanguage.js

• User:Hippietrail/perlanguage.js

  adds random and interlanguage links near each language heading

• User:Hippietrail/personalsidebar.js

  allows each user to have a customised sidebar

• User:Hippietrail/querytest.js
• User:Hippietrail/singlesenses.js
• User:Hippietrail/softtemplates.js
• User:Hippietrail/wfMsgCentre.js

  service for other scripts to get translated interface text

• User:Hippietrail/wiktionaryprefs.js

  old unfinished code for our own extra preferences from before WT:PREFS

My categories

• Wiktionary issues
  • Category:Dutch nouns with incomplete gender
• Dictionary issues
  • Category:Allegedly untranslatable words
  • Category:Entries which need Arabic script
  • Category:CJKV radicals
  • Category:English eponyms
  • Category:English irregular plurals
  • Category:English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article
  • Category:English words affected by prescriptivism
  • Category:English words with multiple etymologies
  • Category:English words with optional capitalisation
  • Category:Italian nouns with irregular gender
  • Category:Japanese-only CJKV Characters
  • Category:Korean-only CJKV Characters
  • Category:Metasyntactic words
  • Category:Politically correct terms
  • Category:Spanish nouns with irregular gender
  • Category:Spanish verb plus plural noun compounds
  • Category:Unknown etymology
  • Category:Vietnamese-only CJKV Characters
• Pseudocategories
  • User:Hippietrail/Article titles with apostrophes
  • User:Hippietrail/English words affected by prescriptivism
  • User:Hippietrail/Mexicanisms
  • User:Hippietrail/Silly phrases which should not be in a serious dictionary
  • User:Hippietrail/Spanish ethnonyms in -eño
  • User:Hippietrail/Spanish ethnonyms in -(t)eco
  • User:Hippietrail/Spanish shops in -ería
  • User:Hippietrail/English words affected by prescriptivism

All kinds of Neat Stuff

Subpages

• User:Hippietrail/Cyrillic accents
• User:Hippietrail/Template:CJK graphical origins section
• User:Hippietrail/Template/Pronunciation section
• User:Hippietrail/Template/Rhyme page
• User:Hippietrail/IPA/English
• User:Hippietrail/IPA:French
• User:Hippietrail/IPA:Portuguese
• User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Chinese Characters (Traditional)
• User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Chinese Characters (Simplified)
• User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Japanese Kanji
• User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Most Useful CJK Characters
• User:Hippietrail/List of well-known English print dictionaries
• User:Hippietrail/akeytt - wikibits function that handles tooltips

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Useful vim regexes:

Requested articles:

1. Find all terms which now have an entry:

   s/^<dd><a href="\/wi.*itle=".*>\(.*\)<\/a>.*<\/dd>/XXX\1/

2. Find all terms which have no entry:

   s/^<dd><a href="\/w\/.*itle=".*>\(.*\)<\/a>.*<\/dd>/XXX\1/

3. Now remove all other terms:

   s/^[^X].*\n//