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If you have edited Wikipedia, you probably already know some basics, but Wiktionary does have a few conventions of its own. Please take a moment to learn our basics before jumping in.
First, all articles should be in our standard format, even if they are not yet complete. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with it. You can use one of our pre-defined article templates by typing the name of a non-existent article into the search box and hitting 'Go'. You can link Wikipedia pages, including your user page, using ], {{pedia}}, or {{wikipedia}}.
Notice that article titles are case-sensitive and are not capitalized unless, like proper nouns, they are ordinarily capitalized (Poland or January). Also, take a moment to familiarize yourself with our criteria for inclusion, since Wiktionary is not an encyclopedia. Don't go looking for a Village pump – we have a Beer parlour. Note that while Wikipedia likes redirects, Wiktionary deletes most redirects (especially spelling variations), in favor of short entries. Please do not copy entries here from Wikipedia if they are in wikipedia:Category:Copy to Wiktionary; they are moved by bot, and will appear presently in the Transwiki: namespace.
A further major caveat is that a "Citation" on Wiktionary is synonymous with a "Quotation", we use these primary sources to construct dictionary definitions from evidence of the word being used. "References" (aka "Citations" on Wikipedia) are used predominantly for verifying Etymologies and usage notes, not the definitions themselves. This is partly to avoid copyright violation, and partly to ensure that we don't fall into the trap of adding "list words", or words that while often defined are never used in practice.
{{Babel}}; please do not create or use them.We hope you enjoy editing Wiktionary and being a Wiktionarian. Conrad.Irwin 22:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi, just to let you know that Wiktionary interwikis are different from Wikipedia interwikis. We always link to exactly the same word, not to a translation (see hello). Conrad.Irwin 22:25, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
Hi,
interwiki links here on English Wiktionary are added automagically by Interwicket bot which reads indexes of all wiktionaries and updates appropriate interwiki link. Unlike 'pedia, this is 100% automatable, because entry names are identical. You may want to spend your time here more constructively..Cheers --Ivan Štambuk 13:42, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
The discussion has been moved there.
PLEASE read how to format entries. All entries must have a ==language== and ===part of speech=== section at the very minimum. SemperBlotto 08:42, 2 January 2009 (UTC)