Wiktionary:Community Portal

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  • The Information desk, for questions from newcomers and veterans alike
  • The Tea room, for questions concerning particular words
  • The Etymology scriptorium, for discussion of word origin
  • The Beer parlour, for general discussion
  • The Grease pit, for technical discussion
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• Get help from the administrators
• Communicate in other languages

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• See Help:Contents for an overview
• Read our tutorial
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• Read about editing a page
• Discover our norms for Interacting with humans
• Experiment with editing in the sandbox
• See changes in how to edit at Wiktionary:News for editors
• Find out community goings-on in Wiktionary:Announcements
• Can't find the word you are looking for? Request it!

Policies, guidelines, and policy discussions

• Entry layout - How to write articles with respect to our guidelines. This is an essential reference for the creation and expansion of entries.
• Criteria for inclusion - What deserves to be included in Wiktionary
• Style guide
• Guide to adding quotations to articles
• Discussion about categories
• A note about idioms
• Discussion on pictures
• Discussion on thesaurus aspects of articles
• Index to templates in use in Wiktionary - please check these before creating any new templates.
• Wiktionary:Policies and Guidelines - Policy

Licensing

• Copyright policy
• License discussion
• Using public domain works as a base

Reference

• Wiktionary:English inflection - About inflection of English words
• Wiktionary:Webster - A guide to Webster's Dictionary
• Wiktionary:Utilities
• Wiktionary:Glossary - Glossary of terms, abbreviations etc. used within Wiktionary
• All reference pages

Help us with entries needing attention

• Entries requested for deletion (Automated list).
• Requests for verification
• Requests for cleanup (Automated list).
  

With the above three, you can go there and add your own entries, or help tidy up the already nominated entries. But best first to see Cleanup and deletion process

• Webster 1913 entries - pages which have not been, or have only partly been, updated since importation from the Webster 1913 edition.
• Translations to be checked - pages with translations to be checked.
• Stubs - articles that are placeholders, waiting for definition. OR, just a sub-section is undefined.
• Requested entries - a list of articles manually requested by people.
• Requests for wikification - Entries that need to be wikified
• Special:Random/Transwiki - Entries imported from Wikipedia that need cleanup to become Wiktionary entries (move them to main namespace, if they meet WT:CFI.)
• Short pages - pages with either zero or little content (30 characters or less), and therefore needing a proper entry made for them.
• Uncategorised pages - see Wiktionary:Categorization

See also - Category:Requests

Projects

There are a number of Wiktionary projects on the go at any one time, developing certain aspects of Wiktionary. All contributions are welcome.

• Phrase book - a multilingual resource for learning simple phrases in foreign languages
• Wikisaurus - a Wiki-based thesaurus
• Concordances
• Frequency lists - lists of the most common words from various sources
• Index to templates - trying to establish a master list of templates in use in Wiktionary, to avoid errors in creating new templates unnecessarily. Please add any templates you know to this list.
  • Inflection templates
• Tracking new words in newspapers
• Translations of the Week

-Spanish Translation Project

• Multilingual coordination

Projects are listed in Category:Wiktionary Projects.