This page lists cleanup requests affecting multiple entries. These may include updating templates, categories or generic entry structure, but not specific terms, which should be tagged with {{rfc}} and put on WT:RFC. Therefore, tasks that have previously been divided across discussion and user pages are grouped together in one place where they are easier to find.
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(|||) sneak into the content of entries or even the pagenames; the soft hyphens should be removed; the other characters should be discussed.(\|\{\|\}]\]\}\}]|\}]\}\]\}]). Simply searching for ]} will not work, because there are many valid instances of it, e.g. {{m|en|a ]}}."Etymology 2" -"Etymology 1" and other cases of higher-number etymologies without the full complement of lower-number etymologies.{{quote- but not starting with #* or ##*){{lb}}To be monitored manually:
{{t+|ja|言葉|tr=ことば, kotoba}}.grc) rather than (Modern) Greek (el).Also:
aaa (Ghotuo) in translations tables are often vandalism.pdc (Pennsylvania German) and pdt (Plautdietsch), aja (Aja/Adja of Sudan) and ajg (Adja/Aja of Benin) need to be kept separate.{{label}} template. It's also possible to search by a specific label (# (]){{sense}} should be preceded with an asterisk.{{w}}: insource:/\{w\|en\|/. The language code (for other than English Wikipedia) is in the |lang= parameter, so {{w|en|...}} links to the page "En" on English Wikipedia. The "en" can be replaced in the search box to search for other language codes, in which case they would be fixed by either deleting the language code in the first parameter or adding "lang=" in front of it.|1=: Special:WhatLinksHere/Unsupported_titles/`lcub``lcub``lcub`1`rcub``rcub``rcub` (you can use namespace filtering to weed out userspace, and change the "1" to view other positional parameters){{etymid}}- hard-coded links to a numbered etymology section: Special:Search/insource:/\#Etymology+/If the search gives a warning (and even if it doesn't!), see Help:CirrusSearch for ways of making the search much less demanding on the servers and much more likely to provide a complete list of problem entries.
Subpages of Wiktionary:Todo :
> This is the list of entries, as of the last database dump, that contain Slovene translations with the gender m ("masculine"). They should most likely be changed to use either m-an (+ "animate") or m-in (+ "inanimate"), since that distinction has grammatical consequences in Slovene. (?)
—RuakhTALK 14:34, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
In many cases, these are unnecessary and cause problems. - -sche (discuss) 18:16, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
class="Arab", which has the CSS direction: rtl; unicode-bidi: embed; applied to it in MediaWiki:Common.css. This is done automatically by most linking templates.A partial list of pages where at least one language section simply states, in plain text, without using {{etyl}}, that it derives from German, French, Latin, Greek, Ancient Greek, Chinese or Spanish. - -sche (discuss) 17:43, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
A list of entries which are labelled as being Canadian, or American, but not both. It is likely that many should in fact have both labels. See Wiktionary:Beer_parlour/2015/March#North_American_English_vs_Canadian_and_American_English for a bit of background. - -sche (discuss) 05:00, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
Any place that the character ϕ is used in place of φ or ϑ in place of θ in a string that is marked as being grc or el should be listed so that an editor can look them over and fix mistakes. I just found one lying around in a {{term}}, which made me think that these shouldn't be overly hard to find. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 21:01, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
]), adding a category link (the equivalent of ]]]) next to it would break the page link. — Eru·tuon 21:28, 13 November 2022 (UTC)All over the dictionary, e.g. in the name and content of !nawas and in this translation, ! turns up for ǃ, and I wouldn't be surprised to find other substitutions for click consonants. The best way I can think of to find such uses is: create a list of all languages that use clicks, or as a presumably easier-to-make approximation of that a list of all Khoisan languages, then search a database dump for all translations, language sections, and {{m}}/{{l}}s of those languages that contain !. I've just cleaned up the few pages which misused ! in their pagenames (only 31 pages on Wiktionary used ! in their pagenames at all). - -sche (discuss) 18:42, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
As discussed at Wiktionary:Grease pit/2017/May § Adding ids to enable linking to headwords, we need to check for sense ids in {{senseid}} and the |id= parameter of headword templates that are on the same page and have the same language and have the same id string: that is, those that would create the exact link when input into an entry linking template. Each sense id for a given language on a given page should be unique. — Eru·tuon 16:57, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
User:-sche/Usage note templates lists some usage-note templates which could be moved to fit our usual naming scheme, as described on the page and . - -sche (discuss) 22:01, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
Wiktionary:Todo/interfixes: These look like interfixes, but are labelled "prefixes" or "suffixes". - -sche (discuss) 19:57, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
User:DerbethBot/Add manually: DerbethBot adds pronunciation files to entries, but some audio files need to be added manually. (See also User:DerbethBot for more info.) -- Curious (talk) 12:00, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Quite a few entries with usage notes like this are labelled {{lb|en|law}}, but are in fact in general use and not at all restricted to legal jargon (so the label should be removed). - -sche (discuss) 00:10, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
You can help repair the broken links to Wikipedia, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource at the subpages of User:This, that and the other/broken interwiki links. For each page listed, one of the following three things should be done: (1) correct the spelling, pluralisation, lowercase/uppercase of the link, add a |lang= parameter etc., (2) remove the link template altogether if not appropriate, or (3) create a redirect on the other wiki (many redirects on other projects were valid but have since been deleted). This, that and the other (talk) 03:14, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
See above. 70.172.194.25 00:59, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
To find compound terms not linked Dunderdool (talk) 21:39, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
Thousands of them are at Category:Webster 1913 (and have been around since almost the beginning of Wiktionary!). Often only one or two terms in Webster's dictionary have not been assimilated and modernized into Wiktionary, sometimes more. GreyishWorm (talk) 17:51, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
Shorten them, or convert to quotations. This, that and the other (talk) 01:24, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Many undated quotes. Chioshio (talk) 03:10, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
Numerous entries contain hard-coded, non-templated inflection tables. Languages especially affected include Hunsrik, Pennsylvania German, Albanian, Old Marathi, and Sanskrit. Some of them have probably been subst'ed by accident, but in other cases, no inflection template exists. The development of a new one will be necessary.
See the search, which currently returns 198 pages. This, that and the other (talk) 05:45, 14 August 2023 (UTC)