Wiktionary:Feedback

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November 2024

Special:Search

It's "Bannerghatta Biological Park" instead of Bannerughatta National Park. — This unsigned comment was added by Prisharma11 (talk • contribs) at 00:14, 3 November 2024.

@Prisharma11: I think you meant to post this comment at the English Wikipedia, not here at the English Wiktionary. Anyway, according to the article "w:Bannerghatta National Park", the Bannerghatta Biological Park is a "small portion" of the National Park. — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:37, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

evil

Also used to describe particular problems "the evil complained of", "the social evil" (sex work/prostitution), others I'm not recalling now. 69.202.207.228 00:56, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

Already there as sense 2 of the noun. Arafsymudwr (talk) 07:43, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

bombachas

This entry states the origin of the English word is the identical Spanish word but the definition given is Baggy knee-breeches worn for horseriding in Brazil. Can someone confirm the Brazil part? It seems to me that if such pants were worn only in Brazil, we wouldn't use a Spanish word for them. (I found this entry by following an interwiki link to bombacha in the Wikipedia article Gaucho. —⁠71.105.243.101 08:43, 17 November 2024 (UTC)

grockle

Also used extensively on the Isle of Wight to refer to tourists. 2603:8001:2C3F:8B15:4426:403A:C5A5:4D9 14:54, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Special:WhatLinksHere/Wiktionary:Feedback

The Thanksgiving holiday that is celebrated today has gone through many changes. What has remained constant is the coming together of family and friends to appreciate life’s blessings and the connection that we have with those around us. — This unsigned comment was added by 198.133.125.137 (talk).

Can't argue with that. No idea what it has to do with Wiktionary, but that's a nice sentiment. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:39, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Main_Page

Please do not add the current Wikipedia's search bar without modification to Wiktionary. The space for images is almost useless for the majority of entries and expands each line too much. 64.66.217.198 23:31, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

I would be inclined to agree with you, but I don't think any one of us here is able to make that decision. The WMF designers just tell us they know better. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 23:41, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

new page layout of wiktionary

I would like to give some feedback on the new page layout of Wiktionary; I think it's a net downgrade: - the "contents" section, at the beginning of the page, is now hidden, making it extremely frustrating and time-consuming to navigate humongous pages of words that are shared by dozens of languages, and impossible to see at-a-glance if the page even has the correct language I'm looking for -- this change is especially damaging, and I find the trend of hiding everything into submenus just ridiculous; - the search bar is hidden, making it one click further from being used (which is a big deal to people like me who spend hours on Wiktionary every day, searching hundreds of words); - the new icons are hidden when DarkReader is in use (in both dynamic and static mode), which is also in part your doing, since the website doesn't have a dark mode, and worked just fine before.

Sorry if my feedback sounds harsh, but as an efficiency-driven user, I just can't possibly fathom how one can look at this new page layout and deem it an upgrade. There is, in my eyes, no improvement, under any possible perspective.

The service and content itself is invaluable -- thanks for maintaining it! But please, revert this anti-user UI.

93.34.149.123 15:32, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

layout change (dislike)

Given how hard this new layout is to use and how often I need to check this site, I'm probably going to need to write filters to redo the whole thing clientside, which is just incredibly exhausting. This really exacerbates what has always been the biggest issue with the site, namely that if you're using it for anything other than looking up words from one of the three or four languages with good Wiktionaries on their native-language version of the site, navigation is almost entirely about the sidebar, which is designed to be maximally cumbersome to use: perpetually hidden on mobile, nearly unusable on desktop without switching from the keyboard to a pointing device. Now you're hiding this on desktop at the slightest provocation? The width threshold at which you hide the sidebar is so high it's flabbergasting: it's as though you can't wait to be rid of this most essential element to the site. Personally, I would rather read a 150px wide viewport than not have the sidebar visible at all times, but I recognize that that's a bit excessive; nonetheless, if you're going to add all this whizzbang configuration, maybe you should prioritize the configurability of this stuff over text sizing, a feature every browser has had built in since before Javascript or CSS existed. (Building text-size controls into one's website is best understood as a limp apology for having a layout that resizes poorly.)

All this stuff seems to be somehow tailored to "accessibility", and yet compared to a website from 2004, it's atrocious for accessibility: the destructive panic as soon as the window feels slightly crowded is bad for people who need large text, the constant mandatory pointing and clicking is bad for people with reduced dexterity, and the decision to funnel what few choices there are through cookies means that if you delete cookies or happen to be in a private window, you get bombarded constantly with the spammy settings popup even if you're happy with the defaults. Wikimedia is still better for site design than most of the modern web; but it's never been worse.

70.51.88.209 04:44, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary:Main_Page

I find the default ('standard') width to be too narrow—both uncomfortably unfamiliar, and a suboptimal use of space—compared to the old design, which as I recall was akin to 'wide'. The sidebar being missing/collapsed by default also leads to the page width being inconsistent between pages with and without section ('Contents') labels. - 86.18.111.58 06:05, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

Search field changed (dislike)

Previously the search field was in the opper right side of the windows, and it was "dynamic", meaning that word suggestions were appearing while typing, helping me when I was not sure about the correct writing of a word. Now the search fild changed its position, and that's not so bad, but it lost the helpig feature, no more hints while typing. Please help. Salvazzo (talk) 08:57, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

I can see that the search field is still available, with a working "hint" feature. But it is hidden under the magnifying lens symbol. It just needs a click on the magnifying lens. It works, but the previous layout was better, IMAHO. Thanks Salvazzo (talk) 09:01, 29 November 2024 (UTC)

December 2024

Word of the day: tip of the iceberg

It should read On this day 65 years ago in 1959... —⁠71.105.243.101 01:25, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Fixed—thanks! — Sgconlaw (talk) 02:29, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

User_talk:24.236.135.4

Hello! This is a very useful and wonderful site I use every single day. However I find a lot of the sexual content very graphic and even disturbing when I'm researching things that are quite innocent-- this even becomes triggering, honestly.

I would be extremely appreciative if there would be a way to flag graphic content so users would have the option of muting it if they didn't want to see it?

Thank you very much!

24.236.135.4

Queerness: 210.6.63.37

Hello, I'm MarcoToa 0425.

The meaning 'the state of being gay, gayness' is missing in this entry. Meaning 3 should be considered to be offensive, according to the usage of the word queer is only OK to use by homosexuals (themselves) only.

Please fix it.

But there is no problem in the meanings 'the state of being odd'. MarcoToa 0425 (talk) 13:36, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

210.6.63.37

The word gash.

The derogatory meaning 'a woman regarded as a sex object' is missing. MarcoToa 0425 (talk) 13:36, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

Word of the day: wham

I like this funny little word

Word of the day: wham

Definition #2 should contain the italicized header "onomatopoeic".

serviceable

Unfortunately, I hate it. At logical width of 1104.5 px (2x real pixels, 3000 × 2000 px Hi-DPI screen scaling at 200%) I get switched to mobile view and I can't find search bar at first glance, there is no ToC visible, there are two hamburger-like menus (menu and ToC) right under each other. Half of the screen is blank anyway, due to how content is formatted on Wiktionary - you could easily fit 3 columns in my case.

Please at least make the cutoff for mobile view at 950 px (half width of FullHD/1920px minus some pixels for any screen borders, etc.). It would help desktop users like me a lot.
For reference, on Firefox with the new vertical tabs and window on half of the screen I get 744.5 logical px (1489 real px) of width. That could still comfortably fit ToC. I feel the search would be better on its own line and always expanded, or at least having frame to simulate presence of input field, as that's what users are subconsciously looking for when searching for a search input - a blank rectangle with clear border.

🔍︎ 

Tracerneo (talk) 12:36, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Wiktionary

Wiktionary is an amazing tool and i've been using it for years without any issues. But i recently tried to use the book creation function to compile a list of entries for personal use and was appalled to find out it isn't saved across sessions. Can i ask what the rational for this is?

I implore you to please fix this issue and allow users to compile and manage any number of books they desire. I've invested an ungodly amount of my time searching for this exact functionality across platforms and this is the only one that actually works as i intend.

Lots of love, Luis

Someone has asked the same question at "Wiktionary:Grease pit/2024/December#Any possibility of allowing users to manage multiple books across sessions?" and it has been answered. If it wasn't you who posted on that page, have a look at that discussion. — Sgconlaw (talk) 17:58, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

Random entry button (to your left)

It would be useful, if possible, if a user could choose a preferred language before pressing your "Random entry" button, and the button then works across that language rather than across the whole site. Otherwise is generates a lot of entries irrelevant to the user. Thank you. Colin McLaughlin (talk) 06:08, 20 December 2024 (UTC).

@Colin McLaughlin: see Wiktionary:Random page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:59, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Good. Thanks. I shall look on that as a Christmas present.
How do people who hit the Random Entry button know there's a Language Selection page, though? Should that have some prominence on the left, too? Colin McLaughlin (talk) 18:53, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

You could certainly propose that at, e.g. Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2024/December. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:03, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

User:Klarmstrongmd

I have a wikimedia ID. Can I get this "Klarmstrongmd ID" switched over so as to have a single password within Wikimedia? ps: I am old and forgetful.

@Klarmstrongmd: I'm not sure what exactly you want to do, but maybe this page will help: "m:Help:Unified login". — Sgconlaw (talk) 19:05, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

January 2025

club

Just leaving some appreciation for all the active editors here and Wiktionary in general. I use the website every day and it's consistently useful and informational. Teafed (talk) 06:10, 31 December 2024 (UTC)

Domo arigato for reading. Happy new year. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:13, 31 December 2024 (UTC)