Wiktionary:Community Portal
Wiktionary is a multi-lingual dictionary (and more) and a wiki community. This page is a convenient starting point for organizing both. Contributions from newcomers are welcome. If you would like to learn more about the mechanics or social norms of contributing, the below lists should be helpful. If you haven't already, you may want to create an account (why?).
Contact us
- Beer parlour (general comments/questions)
- Tea room (comments/questions about particular words)
- Mailing list
- IRC Channel
- Wiktionarians
- Administrators
Help!
- Help:Contents
- Tutorial
- How to edit a page
- Sandbox (a safe place for testing syntax)
- Bug reports - report a technical bug or glitch here
Policies, guidelines, and policy discussions
- Entry layout - What to include in an article. Essential reading for the creation and expansion of entries.
- Criteria for inclusion
- Style guide
- Guide to adding quotations to articles
- Discussion about categories
- A note about idioms
- Discussion on pictures
- Discussion on thesaurus aspects of articles
- Discussion about use of a defining vocabulary to guide writers
- Index to templates in use in Wiktionary - please check these before creating any new templates.
- Wiktionary Policies- a list of all policy documents. Both established policies, and policies in development
- Wiktionary:Proposal for Policies and Guidelines
Licensing
Reference
- Regular English Inflection
- Wiktionary:Webster
- Wiktionary:Utilities
- Wiktionary:Index to Internals - Index to functions, utiltities and other internals of Wiktionary.
- Wiktionary:Glossary - Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations etc used within Wiktionary
- Wiktionary:About German - Standard format of English articles on German words
Lists of entries nominated as needing attention
- Wiktionary:Requests for deletion, category:Requests for deletion.
- Wiktionary:Requests for Cleanup, category:Requests for Cleanup.<br>
With the above two,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
- Category:Webster 1913 - pages which have not been, or have only partly been, updated since importation from the Webster 1913 edition.
- Special:Wantedpages - pages referenced, but not existing. Can you create an entry for these links?
- Category:Stub - articles that are placeholders, waiting for definition. OR, just a sub-section is undefined.
- Category:Definitionless_words:_English - words entered as translations, but missing actual English definition.
- Wiktionary:Requested articles:English - a list of articles manually requested by people.
- Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified - ASCII articles that need 'wiki syntax added.
- Wikipedia's Move to Wiktionary list - long articles that belong here in Wiktionary (shortened.)
- Special:Shortpages - pages with either zero or little content (30 characters or less), and therefore needing a proper entry made for them.
- Special:Uncategorizedpages - see Wiktionary:Categorization
See also - Wiktionary:Lists of words needing attention
Projects
There are a number of Wiktionary projects on the go at any one time, developing certain aspects of Wiktionary. All contributions welcome.
- Phrase book
- WikiSaurus - a Wiktionary-based thesaurus
- Concordances
- 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.
- Wiktionary:List of words all Wiktionaries should have
- Wiktionary:Project - Ultimate Wiktionary- information about the MediaWiki project to develop the next generation of software for Wiktionary.
Projects are listed in Category:Wiktionary Projects