@DannyS712 brought a very strange redirect page to my attention. It's for a combining diacritic that puts a double dot under a letter, as in "x" vs. "x̤". This indicates murmured voicing, and is pretty much equivalent to the letter it redirects to, ʱ. I have a few questions:
What do we do with combining diacritics? While it's technically possible to search for this character, as a practical matter it's very difficult to copy it from anywhere using the normal user interface. We have it in the edit tools at the bottom of the edit window (under "IPA and enPR"), but if you run into it use somewhere combined with another character, I don't know of any way to select it in order to copypaste it without selecting the other character. I also have my doubts as to whether one can link to it using wikisyntax. The usual method, ], displays it, but there's no hyperlink.
Assuming someone knows how to isolate the character and get it into the search box, is it a good idea to have this as a redirect to a free-standing character that looks nothing like it? Should we put an character info box for its code point at the target page? Or is this a case for "Unsupported titles"? Chuck Entz (talk) 09:52, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
It should link to “Wiktionary:Word of the day/2020/December 31”, not “Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/December 31” (Wiktionary:Main Page). J3133 (talk)
@Rua I move-protected all the discussion forums after a page-move vandal hit some of them, which makes the usual method of creating these using a bot more complicated. Just to be on the safe side, I did my best guess at an imitation of the technique (move the last page of the previous year to the name for the new monthly page, move it back, move the redirect at the name for the new page to the name for the next page, move that to the next page name, etc, then replace the contents of the string of redirects with {{discussion month}}
).
I'm pretty sure the desired effect of adding new months to everybody's watchlists was accomplished for the January pages, but beyond that, I'm not so sure. Since my account settings add pages I create to my watchlist, I have no way to check- they would be added to my watchlist either way. Given the importance of having all the monthly discussion pages on everybody's watchlists, this should be checked, and, if need be, fixed. Chuck Entz (talk) 17:18, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
Message: Lua error: not enough memory. It may be a temporary error. DonnanZ (talk) 23:58, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The category contains many terms which aren't multiword terms.
Most compounds and derivatives (Category:German compound words; Category:German words by prefix, Category:German words by suffix) aren't multiword terms, and a hyphen inside of a compound or derivative doesn't make it a multiword term.
See and compare:
--Der Zeitmeister (talk) 10:26, 2 January 2021 (UTC)
data.hyphen_not_multiword_sep
in Module:headword/data to disable adding a term to 'multiword terms' if it has a hyphen in it, but I'm not sure how to make it smart enough to handle all the cases above. Maybe it should be conservative and not add a page to 'multiword terms' based only on a hyphen. What do people think? Benwing2 (talk) 02:27, 4 January 2021 (UTC){{cln|de|multiword terms}}
manually to an entry that requires it than to remove it from one to which it's added automatically. —Mahāgaja · talk 07:58, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
data.hyphen_not_multiword_sep
, and added a flag |nomultiwordcat=
to {{head}}
to disable the category on a case-by-case basis. (There was already |noposcat=
; I also added |nogendercat=
to disable auto-addition of gender-based categories such as Category:German masculine nouns.) I think it makes sense at least for English to have Category:English multiword terms added based on hyphens, since the vast majority of hyphenated words are in fact multiword terms. However, if all this is still insufficient, there are some other things that could be done: (1) have the code check to make sure all hyphenated components exist as words; (2) reverse the sense of data.hyphen_not_multiword_sep
so it functions as an inclusion list rather than an exclusion list. Note that (1) wouldn't catch G-d, but it would catch cases like g-ddamn. Benwing2 (talk) 02:45, 5 January 2021 (UTC)The relevant Lua code needs to be updated to get rid of the module error that currently occurs when attempting to create this category with {{auto cat}}
. I'm not familiar with any of the Lua code on this site so I don't know how to resolve this problem myself at the moment. User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 17:58, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
{{auto cat|the United States}}
and it worked. — Eru·tuon 18:05, 3 January 2021 (UTC)Wikipedia lists the family as Guamo–Chapakuran with a question mark...would someone be able to add data for that language family to Wiktionary, or is it better not to due to uncertainty or something? User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 20:10, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
I also have a different question relating to Guamo: I can see it's an extinct language, so I'm wondering how do I get the category page to say that? User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 20:50, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
|extinct=1
to {{auto cat}}
. —Mahāgaja · talk 21:28, 3 January 2021 (UTC)Another thing I found on Special:WantedCategories for which data is apparently not set up yet. Wikipedia says it's a subfamily of Macro-Jê languages. User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 20:22, 3 January 2021 (UTC)
When trying to create this using {{auto cat}}
it gives an error that references {{topic cat}}
...does anyone know how to fix this? User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 16:30, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
Well...a. What do we do with a page where it starts in entry 97? Esszet (talk) 01:27, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
This page has been cluttering up Category:ParserFunction errors since mid-November. Is there any way to control what shows up in that category like there is with Category:Pages with module errors? Or do we need to edit this to get rid of the test cases? Chuck Entz (talk) 15:24, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
If you go to the 烏魯木齊/乌鲁木齐 (Wūlǔmùqí) page, I have added an example sentence under the definition for Etymology 1 under the Chinese header. (Put aside whether this is a good example sentence for the moment- I plan to use this book elsewhere anyway.) There's a message there that says "Invalid ISBN". According the book itself, the ISBN of the book is 7-80053-740. The ISBN can be seen here: . There is no guidance at Template:ISBN for what I should do. The link on the Template:ISBN page to the ISBN Converter no longer works. I found an online resource that says that the ISBN for this book is not 7-80053-740 but is instead 7-80053-740-1. Should I trust that source or the book itself? Seeking guidance generally. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 11:02, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
@Fay Freak, Suzukaze-c I am learning a lot about ISBNs. You can see some more of my bad work at Category:Pages with ISBN errors. I would like to solve all these problems somehow and create a note on Template:ISBN that gives guidance for what to do when you get "Invalid ISBN" (maybe as simple as "go to Wiktionary Grease Pit" or "look it up at xxx database") --Geographyinitiative (talk) 12:09, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
I have found 2 instances where Wiktionary is using one name for a language, but Wikipedia is using another, with the one used by Wiktionary just being a redirect.
Does anyone have opinions on which names we should use on Wiktionary? User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 16:51, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
Incidentally, I just noticed that Wiktionary is already using the name Western Karaboro for a related language. User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 16:53, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
In Duden online, the recommended form is the lowercase one, so the uppercase form should be the "Alternative form" and the lowercase form, the primary entry.
Due to the swapping, I don't know how moving could be done (unless I use a temporary third pagename, which is deleted afterwards). Obviously, a copy-paste wouldn't be very elegant, and the history of the two pages should be preserved. I'd like to ask someone with the right authorization to do it more professionally. Thank you in advance. Adam78 (talk) 17:41, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
I am trying to add Category:Extremaduran Spanish to entries via a label, such as {{lb|es|Andalusia|Canary Islands|Extremadura}} at lavija. I would think that it should be added to Module:labels/data/subvarieties but note that labels "Andalusia" and "Canary Islands" are not at this module: instead, they are at Module:labels/data/regional. I added it there but there is no category that is created, nor is it linked in the label. What do I do to fix this? I have been running around trying to find what turns "{{lb|es|Canary Islands}} into a valid label that creates a link and adds an entry to Category:Canarian Spanish but I can't find it to save my life. Help, please. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:30, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
{{R:fa:Gazophylacium}}
links to the wrong page because the pages in the book run backwards. See یڭیچری for example. The link to page 297 generates a Google Books URL with pg=PA297 which links to the page numbered 220. The correct URL contains pg=PA220 to link to page 297. I think this is impractical to do right with templates alone, but maybe somebody here has an idea. (@Vahagn Petrosyan) Vox Sciurorum (talk) 20:03, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
The entry in the title shows the expression with a link under each word, namely Gëzuar Vitin e Ri. Now, the entries Gëzuar and Vitin don't exist, because Gëzuar is capitalized and the entry is gëzuar without the capital, and vitin is an inflected form of vit (and also it's capitalized, vitin exists). As for Ri, it should link to ri. I would correct that myself, but I find myself confronted by an opaque template, namely { { head|sq|interjection } } outputting January. What can we do to fix this? MGorrone (talk) 14:17, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
Also, why does that template output the expression with links at the entry, but this bold "January" here in the GP? MGorrone (talk) 14:17, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
{{head|sq|interjection}}
without an explicit head
argument takes the name of the current page (here, January) and formats it by the default method of breaking the word at spaces and linking the components. If you add a head
argument you can control the formatting yourself. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:20, 11 January 2021 (UTC)Someone has to update the relevant Lua modules so that this category can be like all other topical categories, being set up by simply using {{auto cat}}
. I would do it, but I couldn't quite figure out what module to edit...I think the description "<langname> terms related to dictionaries." would be fine, and we should keep its parent categories as they are right now. User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 15:39, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
The basic Esperanto alphabet contains the letter Ĥ. It is the most uncommon letter of the alphabet. I think it would be a good idea to automatically populate the category Category:Esperanto terms spelled with Ĥ with words that contain the letter. This can be acomplished by adding the following piece of code the line 136 of the module Module:eo-headword. The page is protected, so I cannot add or test this proposal myself.
if mw.ustring.match(PAGENAME, "") then table.insert(tracking_categories, "Esperanto terms spelled with Ĥ")
Robin van der Vliet (talk) (contribs) 22:39, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
In order to make Category:Italian terms by their individual characters automatic. J3133 (talk) 08:57, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
I'd like to request the addition of a new parameter in {{inflection of}}
. The name of the parameter might be 2p or 2po, the displayed text should be second-person-object form and the entire text should be linked to Appendix:Glossary#second-person-object form. An example entry would be látlak. A discussion about this parameter is here: Template talk:hu-conj-unified/doWork. Thank you. Panda10 (talk) 18:48, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
@Panda10 I think Module:form_of/data and/or Module:form of/data2 need to be extended. I don't have the permission to edit them. If we check their history, we can find people who are authorized and whom we might personally contact. Adam78 (talk) 13:59, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
@Panda10 Great! Thank you! :) Adam78 (talk) 18:38, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
E.g., “Category:Terms spelled with K (by language)” would contain the subcategories Category:Chinese terms spelled with K, Category:Irish terms spelled with K, Category:Italian terms spelled with K, Category:Latin terms spelled with K, Category:Portuguese terms spelled with K, Category:Spanish terms spelled with K, and Category:Welsh terms spelled with K. J3133 (talk) 08:48, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
Here, I presume: Module:category tree/poscatboiler/data/characters @Benwing2. J3133 (talk) 10:45, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
umbrella = false
and add umbrella_parents = "Terms by their original characters subcategories by language"
or similar (and add a raw entry for "Terms by their original characters subcategories by language"). In this case, it was trickier because the existing code assumed that there was a language in the category and used it to italicize and link the character in the description, breadcrumb and title. I changed it to use Translingual as the language for this purpose for the umbrella categories. Benwing2 (talk) 19:18, 17 January 2021 (UTC)Are the language subpages to Module:accel for specific customization for a language? For Hungarian Module:accel/hu was recently deleted because I assume the standard code handled it. What type of customization is allowed? Whatever can be achieved with Lua? I'd like to understand it because the new conjugation acceleration added to {{hu-conj-unified/doWork}}
would need some adjustments. Discussion about the current issues can be found in the Acceleration testing section on Template talk:hu-conj-unified/doWork. If we wanted to create the verb forms with a bot, would it be connected to the acceleration function or the bot works entirely separately? Panda10 (talk) 00:40, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
Wiktionary:Bookmarklets and Help:Tips and tricks/Bookmarklets are two rather old pages providing some bookmarklets. Do these still work at all? WP's article on bookmarklet explains that increased browser security now tends to prevent this technique from working. Should the pages be retired or updated in some way? Equinox ◑ 10:01, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
According to the people at the Phabricator, the memory issues we're having (see a and i) need to fixed here. Esszet (talk) 16:51, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
Why are Old East Slavic and Old Church Slavonic rendered in a larger font size? Looks like a bug to me, maybe a missing native script/font entry in a table somewhere? Compare Old East Slavic козакъ (kozakŭ) to Belarusian казак (kazak), Old Church Slavonic агода (agoda) to Russian ягода (jagoda). (Seen using Chrome on Chrome OS and Firefox on a Mac.) Vox Sciurorum (talk) 15:13, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
{{m|orv|Д}}
=> Д (D) and {{m|ru|Д}}
} => Д (D). The old form is taller than the Latin letters and almost identical in shape to the modern form (possibly very slightly more tapered, not triangular like the Wikipedia image). The modern form is the same height as Latin capital letters. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 18:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
.Cyrs
, which cause the script to display in Uncial style and look clearer when displayed slightly larger. However, if you don’t have any of the first 11 fonts listed, you’ll end up with text in fallback fonts such as Code2000 or DejaVu Sans, which use the modern Civil Script style of Cyrillic, but unfortunately, it’ll still render in a larger size. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 15:36, 20 January 2021 (UTC)A fair proportion of https://en.wiktionary.orghttps://dictious.com/en/Special:LintErrors/missing-end-tag?namespace=0 is down to one module which was fixed earlier today.
Manually purging 30,000 entries is time consuming. Can it be automated? ShakespeareFan00 (talk) 19:45, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
Hello everybody in Ancient Oriental studies,
Although not a scientist, I would like to get in touch, thanks for your attention. I am a typeface designer and, in loose collaboration with researchers at several academic institutions in Germany, currently developing a new digital Cuneiform font family, which will be cross-checked and finalized in the course of 2021. The family will consist of the following fonts:
1. Neo-Assyrian forms, alongside Persian and Ugaritic Cuneiform
2. Neo-Babylonian forms
3. Old Babylonian forms as canonized by Unicode
4. Classical Sumerian forms (plus the most important archaic variants) for etymological purposes.
The idea is to develop one multilingual typeface family with a harmoneous design. Its main purpose is to bring together Old Babylonian forms and their Neo-Assyrian counterparts for better use in Dictionaries or sign lists such as on Wiktionary. The font family can be licensed for free. I would be excited if Wiktionary would use it as a webfont, if technically possible with your CMS. Then, characters could be displayed in ancient and more recent shapes, making study a richer experience. The design follows a lapidar style, while I regard cursive a domain of hand-rendering skills or photographic reproduction of existing tablets.
I am aware of a similar project already existing, maintained by German designer Johannes Bergerhausen, to whom I offered to add Neo-Assyrian glyph shapes to his “DecodeCuneiform” font, but however, there seem to be no resources currently.
The first chunk of work to be finished will be font (1) and (2) – Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian variants according to Rykle Borger and Henri Labat. Font (3) will mainly follow Unicode (Steve Tinney) and Catherine Mittermayer.
Unfortunately, I was not able to add an image for a first impression, much more I would be indeed excited to get in touch with the Cuneiform community on Wiktionary.
All the best from Berlin, Roman Wilhelm
http://www.roman946.de http://www.romantype.net — This unsigned comment was added by Roman R. Wilhelm (talk • contribs) at 11:48, 19 January 2021 (UTC).
I'd like to suggest that the languages tab gadget have a default language setting. When I'm looking up a word it's usually for the same language every time, but every time I go to a page I have to scroll/find the right language. To remove this, I've enabled the tab gadget and added a greasemonkey script that sets the anchor to the language I want. I've put a copy of the script on the gadget discussion page, but if when a user enabled the gadget it added a menu to the top bar providing a dropdown with a language selection, save that as a cookie, jump to that tab, would improve the UX I think. Discussion of this type of use has taken place before.
I'm happy to do this if someone's able to provide a bit of guidance, I've got no idea how to edit a gadget and have limited experience in JS.
Alwaysmpe (talk) 18:03, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
See . It would be preferable for WT:ACCEL to recognise that bliked is both past forms, and generate only one line, as shown in my correcting edit that followed. Equinox ◑ 07:50, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
In order to not add “” after the term; e.g., at Thesaurus:body of water, run would use nows because its Thesaurus page is unrelated to water (note that the template is protected). J3133 (talk) 10:36, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
nows=1
will hide the WS link. --Yair rand (talk) 06:36, 28 January 2021 (UTC)Add /
before {{{y}}}
(where is {{#if:{{{m|}}}|{{{y}}}
), because, e.g., {{tea room sense|m=August|y=2020}}
links to “Wiktionary:Tea room2020/August” (the template is protected). J3133 (talk) 10:36, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
Is it possible to trigger a warning or error from {{head}}
if I enter an Ottoman Turkish word that uses a character not in the set at Ottoman Turkish alphabet? In particular, I've made a couple mistakes where I used U+06A9 keheh when I meant U+0643 kaf. They are very similar in connected form. In English a similar mistake would result in the word being added to a category, words spelled with (some non-Latin letter). Vox Sciurorum (talk) 00:20, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
I was going to create this but I just want to confirm, should I set the countries for this as Colombia and Peru? That seems to be what w:Witotoan languages says. User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 21:01, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
sai-hoc-pro
wasn't actually marked as a reconstructed language at Module:languages/datax. I've remedied that now and created the category. —Mahāgaja · talk 18:00, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
There's a systematic relationship in Latin between these two types of verbs, the former almost invariably in -eō, the latter likewise invariably in -scō (some outliers include nōvī~nōscere, and there are pairless ones as well, like puer/llāscō "to attain boy/girlhood"). I've added a usage note to this extent to rubeō, and I think it would be beneficial to have a template that would substitute the same description and add the corresponding pair for both of these. Come to think of it, perhaps we'd need two templates, one for each type - unless we want a global template for many different verb types/aspects/Aktionsarten (such as factitive, iterative, durative, delimitative etc). I suspect there are other languages where this template could come in handy as well - it doesn't need to be Latin-only. Other languages could pair different aspects - Russian currently handles this in the headword, but doesn't explain the difference or precise type when there's more than one pair, as seen here, so could benefit from such a global template as well.
Currently all verbs in -scō seem to be automatically added to ]
(I'm guessing this is done by the la-conj template), but there isn't one for stative verbs. While it tentatively appears that every verb in -scō is inchoative, this isn't the case for -eō verbs like mordeō and moveō, and even videō is doubtful - an inchoative formed to it wouldn't make sense at any rate; so a stative category wouldn't simply double ]
, and in addition will be able to be applied to verbs of other conjugations. With this in mind, I suppose the stative category should be tied to the usage note, and not the conjugation template; and I also think it makes sense if the template adds the inchoative category too, thus allowing to bypass the conjugation template's autocategorisation.
Now to the practical part: firstly I wonder if anyone doesn't think this is a good idea; and secondly, since I'm programmingly-challenged and have no experience creating wiki templates or categories, I ask that somebody be so kind as to create these for me, or else offer me some guidance in doing that myself. Brutal Russian (talk) 04:14, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
{{U:la:stop+liquid poetic stress alteration}}
, for example. A global template is probably a bad idea, as we have very different ways of linking these kinds of forms in different languages, and a one-size-fits-all approach just isn't appropriate. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 06:56, 27 January 2021 (UTC)I attempted to create this but I get a Lua error:
Lua error in Module:category_tree/poscatboiler/data/families at line 167: attempt to concatenate a nil value
Does someone with better knowledge of the Wiktionary Lua code know how to fix this? User: The Ice Mage talk to meh 16:55, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
inc-ins
had a line wikidata_item = "",
, but if a family isn't in Wikidata, the line should be omitted completely rather than simply having nothing between the quotation marks. —Mahāgaja · talk 19:19, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
I created Category:Ottoman Turkish redlinks and Category:Ottoman Turkish redlinks/m over a week ago. They are empty. What ritual do I need to perform to have them populated? Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:29, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
{{redlink category}}
, which requires an admin or a template editor. First, though, we need to consider whether it's a good idea: the redlink category module has been responsible for a number of "out of memory errors" over the years. That said, all of the entries in the exclusion list (over 300 in all) are in either Latin or Han characters (and ar for Arabic is one of the enabled codes), so I think we're okay. I added it. Chuck Entz (talk) 18:15, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
{{redlink category}}
. On the one hand, adding the redlink category checking might increase the overall memory load, and etymologies have a rather high percentage of erroneous forms. On the other hand, terms in etymologies tend to have more interest to the general readership than translations in the same languages, since they're more likely to be from historical periods and languages that only specialists study. Chuck Entz (talk) 18:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC){{redlink category}}
. Only a few, basically {{l}}
and {{m}}
and translation templates.) — Eru·tuon 21:37, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
How can I fix the redlink at Appendix:Variations_of_"me"? Equinox ◑ 17:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
{{l}}
instead of a bare link works. I don't know if there's a more elegant solution. —Mahāgaja · talk 20:01, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
]
produces /me. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 20:02, 29 January 2021 (UTC)How should we quote from a language-teaching app in a foreign language? In this entry - 이시여 (isiyeo) I didn't use any quote template, I don't like it that way and it doesn't categorise. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 11:22, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
A "qualifier" template next to a "ux" template, e.g.:
{{qualifier|UK usage}} {{ux|en|He looks better '''for''' having lost weight.}}
for me, in both Edge and Chrome, produces this:
Is there any way to suppress the unwanted line break while still using recommended templates? (Of course, I know it can be done by removing the templates.) Mihia (talk) 18:23, 1 February 2021 (UTC)