Wiktionary:News for editors

This page is designed to list, in brief, recent clarifications of or changes to policy or best current practice, major changes to templates, and the like: changes that you might, as an editor, need to be kept abreast of. You may want to watch this page.

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• 2009 January: {{en-noun}} now supports usually uncountable nouns and those with uncertain or unattested plural.
• 2009 February: {{etyl}} now takes language families, not just languages, as values for the first parameter. See Category:ISO 639-5 templates for a list of these families.
• 2008 December: The old request that editors use brackets ([[) in {{plural of|[[foo]]}} and some other templates is no longer in place. However, you may still use those brackets if you wish. (explanation)
• 2008 December: MW software now uses File: where Image: was used. Image still works as an alias, but you will see File displayed in various places. This was done because using Image for, say, .ogg files was silly.
• 2008 December: The template {{see}} now works as an ordinary language code template, for Seneca. The "See also" atop an entry should now be added by means of the template {{also}} instead, no longer by means of {{see}}.
• 2008 November: No longer use {{es-verb-ar}}, {{es-verb-er}}, or {{es-verb-ir}}: use {{es-verb}} instead. (decision)
• 2008 November: Use {{homophones}} to list homophones for Latin-script languages.
• 2008 September: Etymology source-language templates (like {{F.}}) are being deprecated, and some have already been deleted; use {{etyl}} wherever feasible. (discussion, August 2008)
• 2007 July: Old news for many, but new news for others -- {{law}} was replaced with {{legal}}. After some time, {{law}} will be used as a language-code template like {{aaa}} (for Lauje, a language of Sulawesi).