Help:Creating a Wikisaurus entry
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[edit] To Create or Not To Create...
- Begin by selecting a headword. The headword should be a common word which is well known, (e.g., select desert over tergiversate) when possible.
- Once a headword is selected, check Wikisaurus to see if a similar entry already exists. Search Wikisaurus (checking the “Wikisaurus” checkbox includes the Wikisaurus namespace in the search). This should find any existence of the word in the Wikisaurus, directly or indirectly. If the word is listed as a synonym in a separate Wikisaurus entry decide whether it has any distinct meanings from the word under which it is listed, and if so, go ahead with creating a new entry.
- Peruse Roget Thesaurus Classification to see if a suitable or better word exists to be the headword of the entry.
[edit] Formatting
See also Wiktionary:Wikisaurus/format
- See also {{ws shell}}
The following is out of date and inconsistent with {{ws shell}}. More up to date are Wiktionary:Wikisaurus/format and {{ws shell}}. See also the actual entries for the current common practice.
Each Wikisaurus entry should begin with the {{ws header|xxx}} where xxx is the headword.
- Please be sure to wikify all words and idioms listed in Wikisaurus, and in applicable places link to Wikisaurus pages.
- Use the following format for the entry, if you don't know what some of it means or indicates, do your best and someone will clean it up along the way, it is a collaborative effort.
{{Wikisaurus-header|headword}}
Benchmarketing
adj(eg: Noun, Adjective)
- benchmarketing
- Benchmarketing is the practice of using bench applications and optimizations on a computing platform for the sole purpose of spurring sales
Antonyms
- Sometimes a "See Wikisaurus:yyy is appropriate, if this is the case indicate the sense of the word which is the antonym, with an anchored link if possible.
Further Parts of Speech or Senses
- Repeat the above as many times as needed.
Wikisaurus Links
- Examples for what may belong here are: Wikisaurus:alcoholic wouldn't have a synonym such as beer, but could reasonably be linked to Wikisaurus:beer.
Roget's Thesaurus Classification
- See below.
External links
- Add any links to appropriate entries in other Thesauruses, online or printed, or better yet, add your own!
See Wikisaurus:anger or Wikisaurus:intelligent for current examples of how a reasonably formatted Wikisaurus entry looks.
[edit] Roget's Thesaurus Classification
Go the Wiktionary:Roget Thesaurus Classification, find the relevant section/ entry/ies, and add links to the Wikisaurus entry.
[edit] Links from standard word entries
Wikisaurus has an article on “money” in the sense of “”.In any entry, where synonyms are listed, create a link to the relevant Wikisaurus page/headword.
This is best done by inserting the code {{Wikisaurus-link|headword}} to give a visual link to the Wikisaurus entry under the headword specified. For example {{Wikisaurus-link|money}}
