Hippietrail
![Some of my dictionaries, grammars, and language books.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Dictionaries_on_a_bookcase.jpg/250px-Dictionaries_on_a_bookcase.jpg)
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Who?
editI’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
edit- User:Hippietrail/addstructure.js
- wraps HTML
div
s around the sections delineated by headings
- wraps HTML
- 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
edit- Wiktionary issues
- 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
editSubpages
edit- 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
- Requested articles:
- Find all terms which now have an entry:
s/^<dd><a href="\/wi.*itle=".*>\(.*\)<\/a>.*<\/dd>/XXX\1/
- Find all terms which have no entry:
s/^<dd><a href="\/w\/.*itle=".*>\(.*\)<\/a>.*<\/dd>/XXX\1/
- Now remove all other terms:
s/^[^X].*\n//
- Find all terms which now have an entry: