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Contact and discussions

Contact, discussions and requests on Wiktionary:

• Discussion rooms or forums:
  • Information desk – for questions from newcomers and newbies
  • Tea room – for questions concerning particular words
  • Etymology scriptorium – for discussion of word origin
  • Beer parlour – for policy discussion and cross-entry discussion
  • Grease pit – for technical discussion such as on templates, wiki dumps and JavaScript tweaks
• Request pages – for processes such as attestation and deletion
  • Requests for verification – requests for attestation of entries by providing citations (English · CJK · Italic · Other Non-English)
  • Requests for deletion – requests for deletion for reasons not related to a lack of appropriate citations (English · CJK · Italic · Reconstruction · Other Non-English)
  • Requests for deletion/Others – requests for deletion of pages such as categories, appendices and templates
  • Requests for moves, mergers and splits
  • Language treatment requests
  • Requests for cleanup
• Votes – votes that establish community policies
• Fun stuff – fun community competitions

Other means of communication:

• Sign up to our mailing list
• Chat with Wiktionarians in real-time on our IRC channel or on our Discord server.
• Get help from the administrators.
• Find out more about the Wiktionarians.

Monitoring discussions:

• Recent changes in the "Wiktionary:" namespace
• Recent changes in Category:High volume discussion pages
• Recent changes in currently running votes

Help pages

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

Policies and guidelines

Key policies:

• Wiktionary:Entry layout – How to layout and format article sections; essential for creation and expansion of entries
• Wiktionary:Criteria for inclusion – What deserves to be included in Wiktionary
• Wiktionary:Blocking policy – Outlines when it is appropriate for administrators to block users

Secondary and possibly outdated guidelines:

• Wiktionary:Style guide – Guide for how to stylize articles
• Wiktionary:Quotations – Guide to adding quotations to articles
• Wiktionary:Categories – Discussion about categories
• Wiktionary:Idioms – A note about idioms
• Wiktionary:Pictures – Discussion on pictures
• Wiktionary:Index to templates in use in Wiktionary—please check these before creating any new templates.
• Wiktionary:Policies and guidelines

Discussion on policy:

• Wiktionary:Beer parlour

Licensing

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

Reference

• Appendix:English parts of speech – 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

Things to do

Wiktionary:Things to do:

• Todo – coverall list
• Todo lists – regularly refreshed lists of pages that need fixing
• Requests for cleanup (Automated list).
  
• Translations to be checked – pages with translations to be checked.
• Definitions needed – articles that are placeholders, waiting for definition. OR, just a sub-section is undefined.
• Requested entries – a list of articles manually requested by people.
• 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.

• Phrasebook – a multilingual resource for learning simple phrases in foreign languages
• Swadesh lists – lists of approximately 200 basic vocabulary words in various world languages
• Thesaurus – a Wiki-based thesaurus
• 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

See also Wiktionary:Wiktionary projects and Category:Wiktionary projects.

See also

• Wiktionary:Index – index to project pages