User:Arafsymudwr
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Hi, welcome to my Wiktionary user page. I've been a user for over 10 years. I began editing while I was looking up Welsh and found very few entries for Welsh, that can be readily found in other sources.
- Languages other than English that I have some knowledge of (currently active in bold)
- Current tasks
- Adding missing Catalan and Welsh vocabulary as I come across redlinks.
- Fixing existing entries, e.g. where no data has been entered into a template.
- Improving Welsh content on Wiktionary so it can serve as a resource for learners, as Wiktionary's format is often much more user-friendly than many of the Welsh translating dictionaries. I am doing this by:
- Linking synonyms
- Adding Welsh terms under "translations" in the entries for their translations in English
- Adding Welsh idioms and multiword terms
- Adding Welsh names of species
- Adding Welsh vocabulary likely to appear in secondary school science (based on my expertise as a science teacher using a UK curriculum)
Thoughts on Welsh in Wiktionary
[edit]In general, existing entries depend overmuch on the Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, which is comprehensive but does not give a good idea of Welsh as it is normally spoken in modern times. For this reason (and the fact that the GPC is copyrighted), I believe that Wiktionary entries should refer to other dictionaries in addition to it.
The best resource for zoological and botanical vocabulary in Welsh is Y Bywiadur, which is constantly being updated and really should take precedence over the GPC in defining anything.
My work on Welsh
[edit]Created templates for tastes and anatomy of the head.
Did not create, but improved and added to entries a template for playing cards.
Added several taxonomic categories, including:
- Brambles
- Dabbling ducks
- Figwort family plants
- Ibises and spoonbills
- Mites and ticks
- Pome fruits
- Rose family plants
- Roses
- Senecioneae tribe plants
- Shrikes
- Soricomorphs
- Suliform birds
- Tubenose birds
To do
[edit]Eventually make sure the following do not have Welsh redlinks: