Project:Community Portal
Contact and discussions
Contact, discussions and requests on Project:
- 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
- Requests for deletion – requests for deletion for reasons not related to a lack of appropriate citations
- Requests for deletion/Others – requests for deletion of pages such as categories, appendices and templates
- Requests for moves, mergers and splits
- 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 "Project:" 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 Project:News for editors
- Can't find the word you are looking for? Request it!
Policies and guidelines
Key policies:
- Project:Entry layout – How to layout and format article sections; essential for creation and expansion of entries
- Project:Criteria for inclusion – What deserves to be included in The Languages of David J. Peterson
- Project:Blocking policy – Outlines when it is appropriate for administrators to block users
Secondary and possibly outdated guidelines:
- Project:Style guide – Guide for how to stylize articles
- Project:Quotations – Guide to adding quotations to articles
- Project:Categories – Discussion about categories
- Project:Idioms – A note about idioms
- Project:Pictures – Discussion on pictures
- Project:Index to templates in use in The Languages of David J. Peterson—please check these before creating any new templates.
- Project:Policies and guidelines
Discussion on policy:
Licensing
Reference
- Appendix:English parts of speech – About inflection of English words
- Project:Webster – A guide to Webster's Dictionary
- Project:Utilities
- Project:Glossary – Glossary of terms, abbreviations etc. used within The Languages of David J. Peterson
- All reference pages
Things to do
- 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.
- Short pages – pages with either zero or little content (30 characters or less), and therefore needing a proper entry made for them.
- Uncategorised pages – see Project:Categorization
See also: Category:Requests
Projects
There are a number of The Languages of David J. Peterson projects on the go at any one time, developing certain aspects of The Languages of David J. Peterson. 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
- Concordances
- 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 The Languages of David J. Peterson, to avoid errors in creating new templates unnecessarily. Please add any templates you know to this list.
See also Project:The Languages of David J. Peterson projects and Category:The Languages of David J. Peterson projects.
See also
- Project:Index – index to project pages