User talk:Marac
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Marac,
I see you're adding Polish. It is always good to have another language around. --Dvortygirl 17:44, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Yes, mulch should (and does) link to mulching, as an inflected form of to mulch (verb.) Having it listed as a regular inflection, there really is no point in listing it again as a derivation. If you want to put it back in there, I'll try to not remove it...but it is redundant. --Connel MacKenzie 8 July 2005 15:52 (UTC)
Hi Marac,
Welcome to the Wiktionary project. You are probably right in that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to duplicate all the material found on commons over here. I hadn't considered the slowness of the loading. I simply considered them as links, which memory wise don't weigh all that much. I'm sure people will be able to click on the wikicommons link, if they know what they can find there. I do like some illustrations here or there and I had like to include an image. Since my attempts to show only a few pictures from commons failed, I simply copied the block of code having the entire gallery. Anyway, I'm only an admin here because I have been a long time contributor and I don't tend to ban people for reverting a change I made. The only people that will get banned immediately are vandals and spammers. So don't worry, if you see me doing something you don't like, you just yell and we can talk about it. I don't consider myself more than any other contributor around here. In a way I even consider myself less since English is not my native language and all I tend to do is to contribute translations to a few languages I know, since that is the use I mostly make of dictionaries. I must say I'm glad there are more contributors now who will add good definitions, so the translations can be more precise from now on. Thanks for your input and I hope to see many more contributions from you! Polyglot 00:37, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
- I think your English is just fine and you will certainly be able to contribute. For adding translations to Polish, you only need to be able to understand the definitions and think about which translations correspond. There still is a lot of work on the [1] page and after that the entries of this list seem very worthwhile to [2] provide translations for. Polyglot 08:40, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
In your edits to malleus, you've added numbers to images and definitions. That should never happen. Definitions have numbers, but those numbers often change as new definitions are added or older ones rearranged. --EncycloPetey 19:52, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
- We identify which sense is intended by means of a gloss, using a shortened form of the relevant definition with key words used at the beginning of the definition. For example, (deprecated template usage) king uses the context tag "chess", or (deprecated template usage) squat uses key terms in describing the illustration. Again, we realized long ago that using numbers fails to work. In a print dictionary, or single-editor dictionary, numbers are feasible. However, on a wiki-dictionary there is too much change to rely on numerical consistncy, and we are constantly cleaning up problems where numbers no longer match appropriately. Some other wiktionaries do not have this problem, but that is generally because they are smaller wiktionaries with relatively few editors. --EncycloPetey 01:55, 24 August 2010 (UTC)