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It is not april fools today 87.39.232.51 08:14, 2 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

It's part of a five-day April Fools' Day theme. — Sgconlaw (talk) 17:13, 2 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

but the day was world optimus day so you could've done a word for it not a stupid joke 87.39.232.51 08:04, 4 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

There are no results for “World Optimus Day”. J3133 (talk) 09:14, 4 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Word of the day: haboob

April Fools Day was two days ago — This unsigned comment was added by 87.39.232.51 (talk) at 08:43, 3 April 2025 (UTC).Reply

See above. J3133 (talk) 16:52, 3 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Word of the day: kiss-her-in-the-buttery

Stop doing this, April Fools is over — This unsigned comment was added by 87.39.232.51 (talk) at 08:03, 4 April 2025 (UTC).Reply

See above. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:07, 4 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

What an obstinate IP! Polomo47 (talk) 15:34, 4 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

I found that the word "mismo" (and probably many more words) do not have a acurrate IPA transcription. "Mismo" is transcribed as while the general and most common pronunciation is with no voiced . It is true that in some dialects in Hispanoamérica the sound would be present in this situation (before a voiced consonant or intervocalically) but it is not the majority of the dialects (even both dialects of which there are audio samples replaced this supposed with a Voiceless glottal fricative instead). Aside of this issue it would be very useful to add some dialects that generally differ in pronounciation in these cases (like castillian spanish, caribbean, rioplatense...) to at least show the various pronounciations certain sounds can take. I've seen this done in other languages and spanish is not precisely less important than them. I hope you can solve it or allow me to change it if possible. Thanks for your attention! — This unsigned comment was added by Kenghoul24 (talk • contribs).

@Kenghoul24: Thanks for commenting. I have noted some issues with Spanish pronunciation before and the automatic transcription is very good but not 100% perfect. Pronunciations on entries appear due to the templates {{es-IPA}} and {{es-pr}}, which themselves rely on Module:es-pronunc. So if you want to help us refine that, you'll have to edit that module, which requires an understanding of Spanish, IPA, and Lua. If you don't think you can do that directly, you can post to the talk page of the module to try to collaborate with more knowledgeable users. I myself am decent at Spanish, but only a little knowledgeable about IPA and Lua, so I can generally second what you wrote above, but can't implement all the fixes required. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:36, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

With the "decent at spanish", do you mean you are native? i mean i think that it's very hard for a non native speaker to get all the nuances of the language, including its many dialects (i couldn't do that in english for example). Regarding the requirements, I'm a native spanish speaker with knowledge of IPA for my dialect and some general IPA knowledge for other many dialects, I don't even know what Lua is tho. Thanks for answering! Kenghoul24 (talk) 14:45, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Oh goodness no, I am not. We have these boxes we can put on our user pages and I have chosen a "2" out of "5" to show my skill level. I routinely have conversations in Spanish (or have, depending on my work environment, etc.) and have an understanding of the orthography, grammar, etc. at a level that is more than just stumbling around to babble in the language, but nowhere near bilingual or native fluency. We're very happy to have you here, Ken and I love all Latin languages, particularly Spanish, so I've put a lot of time into Spanish as well as English entries here. I'd love to help you however I can in working on our Spanish coverage. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 14:52, 8 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

So who should I text to take part in your spanish coverage? i'd love to give you not only my point of view as a native speaker about the sounds and the IPA transcriptions but also some ideas that could be interesting such as IPA transcriptions for different dialects (i've seen it done in many languages and spanish is not precisely limited in that aspect lol) Kenghoul24 (talk) 23:16, 15 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

There's not necessarily anyone you need to text as such, but if you want to make a proposal regarding Spanish, generally, the Wiktionary:Beer Parlour is a good place to go. There are ways of pinging all Spanish-interested editors as well. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:17, 18 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Usage of mongrel and mongrelize.

These terms are considered to be highly racist (sometimes even taboo) when reference to people’s races. However, these words can be used to describe an animal, for example a mongrel bitch, in the sense female dog.

Oxford dictionary stated that the term mongrelize is used in biology, however it is nowadays completely taboo when describing a group of people that are racially mixed. — This unsigned comment was added by 45.64.242.239 (talk).

Courtesy links: mongrel, mongrelise, mongrelize. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:04, 10 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

These entries already have labels contextualizing their use as extremely racist. Is there something more that you think we need to do here? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:06, 10 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

I'm not sure if this is the proper page for technical stuff, but when I take search for a page in wiktionary.org (not en.wiktionary.org), it gives me a Wikipedia page. e.g., if I searched for 'bicycle,' it would sent me to the Wikipedia page for bicycle. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? —Rendite (talk) 02:32, 10 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Holy shit, we just commented about the same thing in the same MINUTE! WHAT??? TheDivineGoddess (talk) 02:33, 10 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

There is already a phab: tickets for this, thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Exactly what it says. wiktionary.org goes to wikipedia whenever I type anything in it. I didn't know if anyone knew about this. It seems like an accident. TheDivineGoddess (talk) 02:32, 10 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

There is already a phab: tickets for this, thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:41, 10 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

The layout looks just fine. How about a quick and simple menu for changing the default font to a Serif type?

--Ksenom_O (talk) 23:13, 11 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

I am absolutely furious that all wiktionary searches now redirect to Wikipedia. Please make this stop. I am a heavy user of English wiktionary's entries on various languages for my work as an academic, and the site is borderline unusable now. — This unsigned comment was added by 222.253.145.107 (talk) at 08:32, 13 April 2025 (UTC).Reply

There is a notice about this. The MediaWiki devs are aware of this issue, but are stuck bikeshedding about how to fix it. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 10:16, 13 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

the plural form of "ese" in spanish is actually "esos". the form "eses" may have been used in the past (i would need to do some research on that) but in case it was used it is not used in spanish anymore, not even the RAE recognizes its use. I suggest that you either remove it from spanish or mark it as arcaic or old spanish term if it happens to have been used in the past. thank you for your attention!

• eses is the plural of noun ese. The entry is OK Vilipender (talk) 00:06, 18 April 2025 (UTC)Reply
• Wiktionary includes outdated forms. E.g. see thou and thee in English. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:43, 22 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello,

It would be wonderful to be able to scroll through the words- I love to learn new words and if there were an arrow button, or 'next' button, I would scroll new words in my free time : ) Thanks for all you do!

In this word and many more there are a lot of mistakes in spanish syllable structure. For example, this word only appears as /'bja.xe/ when in many dialects it's pronounced /bi.'a.xe/. Also the opposite happens in words like "bacalao" the trancription shown is /ba.ca.'la.o/ when that pronunciation never happens, instead the actual pronunciation in every almost every dialect is /ba.ca.'lao̯/. It would be very useful for me and for every language enjoyer to change these details. — This unsigned comment was added by Kenghoul24 (talk • contribs).

Our Spanish pronunciation module is good, but not perfect. See Module:es-pronunc. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:42, 22 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

okay but could it be possible to fix those exceptions? i know it's not perfect but if we can fix it why wouldn't we do it? I can bring you many info about the pronunciations. These transcriptions will confuse learners on how to pronounce those words. Kenghoul24 (talk) 11:33, 24 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Sure. I'd recommend posting to the module's talk page. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:28, 24 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

i'm sorry but i'm new here, Where's the module's talk page?? Kenghoul24 (talk) 10:08, 28 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Discussion moved to Talk:visualize.

Hey everyone, I'm a big fan :) I think I use the website daily, so much so that I created a shortcut on my android "desktop". I should probably create an account as well. :) In the meantime, one suggestion: how come there is no dark mode in the settings for unauthenticated users? I also tried the desktop mode, hoping it was hidden there, but no such luck. :-/ Sorry for the noise if I missed it, but I think it's safe to say that I am an advanced IT user. :) And while we are at it, how come there is no android app for wiktionary? it would help with the integration, like searching directly from the browser, or other apps, via the "share" function, for example? Thanks to the team, and thevcommunity as a whole! 2001:9E8:A243:2100:4DF7:F9EF:F58C:409F 10:07, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I can only comment on the dark mode; it'll probably be on the builtin settings page (sidebar > Settings), but the developers haven't enabled it yet. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 12:18, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I'm curious as some of the entries might be incorrect or are missing synonyms for other cities. Is there a dictionary that Wiktionary has been sourcing these from, or are these all orginal research? LittleCuteSuit (talk) 18:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

You may get more responses at Wiktionary:Tea room. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:17, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ok, I will ask there. Thank you for letting me know. LittleCuteSuit (talk) 19:19, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Would it be possible to change the language name for ISO 639-3: dcr from Negerhollands to Virgin Islands Dutch Creole? The former term is rather contentious, as it contains the Dutch N-word. The latter is also just a better description of the language and is the term used by Glottolog. 92.254.93.189 19:07, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Moving this to the Wiktionary:Beer Parlour. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:10, 7 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

No need to be protected Vilipender (talk) 21:52, 8 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Agreed. I think 15 years is long enough. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:04, 8 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I notice that the word of the day feeds (both RSS and Atom) have a margin-top:-47px styling on the .wotd-container element. This causes it to render incorrect in every feed app I've tried (Feedbro Firefox extension, among others), overlapping the preceeding UI elements. I've fixed this locally with a userContent.css which overrides the margin but a better solution would be nice. — This unsigned comment was added by ~palediver (talk • contribs) at 10:39, 12 May 2025 (UTC).Reply

@~palediver: I've copied your comment to "Wiktionary:Grease pit", where it is more likely to get attention. Please comment further there. — Sgconlaw (talk) 18:11, 12 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Probably doesn't need protection any longer Vilipender (talk) 06:49, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

 Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:47, 16 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Probably doesn't need protection any longer, like the following:

Vilipender (talk) 23:49, 16 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I think 大馬 is pronounced Da Ma not "ma la xi ya" Blue roller (talk) 12:03, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I think you should add pisspot as an adjective. I suggest the definitions: Of negilgeable worth Of low value

I believe this declension is wrong for adjective form of white. Please see https://en.openrussian.org/ru/%d0%b1%d0%b5%d0%bb%d1%8b%d0%b9 which I believe is correct

The Mongolian spelling of this word is wrong, missing a letter, the correct spelling should be "ᠭᠤᠤᠯᠮᠤᠳ". Please help me correct the error in the English Wiktionary and Malagasy Wiktionary. The correct Mongolian spelling is here http://burgud.net/Mgl/View/?burgudID=4EBC-CFB3-E317C778-9F04F7A5-58DF4537

@Manilano12: I see your spelling in the relevant articles at the two Wikipedias I checked (English and Mongolian), so I suspect you may be right, though I don't know Mongolian well at all. I have no reason to believe that @LlywelynII has any special knowledge of Mongolian, either (I wasn't aware he had even edited in the language), so a simple mistake wouldn't surprise me. @Theknightwho. Chuck Entz (talk) 00:50, 26 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Chuck Entz This is just G-O-L-M-U-D in Mongolian letters. I don't know if this one is correct specifically, but these kinds of direct transliterations into Mongolian are generally a major red flag, since the Mongolian script tends to use a lot more silent letters than the Cyrillic one (e.g. imagine some naive non-English speaker spelling light as *layt). Theknightwho (talk) 08:23, 26 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I would be pleased to help you all with the many errors that this module has as a native spanish speaker.

Hello i've seen many errors in transcriptions, speacially with "ct" and "pt" since most galician speakers would ommit the first sound and pronounce a geminated t instead or some dialectal variation. But no galician speaker would pronounce "actor" as /ak.'tor/ but /at.'tor/ or even /aθ.'tor/. It would be great that if I could help you improve the module and i am in close contact with many galician speakers.

It's Finnegans Wake, not Ulysses, that used the word quark. Smurrayinchester (talk) 10:22, 16 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Smurrayinchester: thanks, I’ve fixed it. It was correctly stated in the entry but I mistyped it in the WOTD. — Sgconlaw (talk) 12:00, 16 June 2025 (UTC)Reply