Wiktionnaire:Actualités/032-novembre-2017/en

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Actualités - Numéro 32 - novembre 2017

• In October, Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev signed a decree to change the script of Kazakh alphabet from the Cyrillic to a Latin-based script up to 2025. Wiktionary will keep an eye on the evolution of the language and will include the changes. There is already words wrote in Latin script in Wiktionary. Plus, Latin and Arabic scripts were already used for this language in the past.

• Friday the 17^th of November, in Lyon (France), a workshop was organized about dictionary-making, nicely titled lexicopoïèse. At the cross road of different methodologies and practices, this workshop was filmed and will probably be upload online. Two Wiktionary editors took part, Lyokoï to present the history of French Wiktionary and Noé which talked about the differences in methodology from traditional savant approach to the collaborative work, including a third way with the participative approach used by descriptive linguists. The following day, a dozen of people met again to contribute about an operation called dix mots de la francophonie .

• The 26^th of November, in Paris, a public talk was made about the French Wiktionary, during the Ubuntu Party, a gathering about open source softwares. Pamputt presented some slides available in this page of the Tremendous Wiktionary User Group. A video may be available soon. Stay tuned!

Other presentations to come soon! As every slides free for reuse, you are welcome to set up meeting or presentation close to your place! There is also some slides in English available but none as descriptive as the French ones.

October 20th to November 20th.

• French entries increased by 2,994 and quotations increased by 2,586. There are now 359,104 lemmas, 529,178 definitions and 334,419 quotations or examples.

• The three other languages which progressed the most are Northern Sami (+ 4,590 entries), Italian (+ 538 entries) and Nǀu (+ 255 entries).

• Twenty-six languages were added in the project (here with French names): shall-zwall (+2), korandjé (+2), luhu (+1), bo-rukul (+1), boano (Maluku) (+1), bahonsuai (+1), mehináku (+1), manipa (+1), picuris (+1), tompiro (+1), ito (+1), malgache du plateau (+1), pashayi du Sud-Est (+1), tomadino (+1), thangmi (+1), thakali (+1), taloki (+1), dirasha (+1), toto (+1), kulisusu (+1), wom (Nigeria) (+1), waru (+1), koroni (+1), yawalapití (+1), abu’ (+1).

• In November 9,795 entries were created for 101 languages!

Words of the month

Statistics provided by Wikiscan:

• Most popular pages
• Most modified pages

Miscellanous

• There is now 35,004 illustrative documents (pictures and videos) in French Wiktionary pages. It is 2,149 more than last month. This unusual growth is due to an improvement of the stats.
• As of November 31, French Wiktionary contains 301 thesauri in French and a total of 453 thesauri in 54 languages!
  No new thesaurus this month, but a better classification of existing thesauri thanks to NicoScribe.

The Questions on words page (WT:QM) records 88 questions in November, compared to 189 in October, 197 in September and 141 in August. It seems it was not only Actualités editors that went busy this month!

Abécédaire des mondes lettrés, Enssib , on line.

Here is another hybrid lexicographic object with an exploration of vocabulary about library through a visualization of words in constellations. The representation of proxemia between words is intended to give meaning without definition, and provides a form of navigation between words that can allow the discovery of new terms quickly. The vocabulary is primarily aimed at the world of books, but wishes to open up to the world of signs and meanings, although the site presentation page is more lyrical than clear on the direction of this project. This artistic blur may be related to the collaborative nature of the project. Voluntary contributions should be submitted to an editorial committee and are expected from specialists. The entire content is published under a free CC BY-NC-ND license, i.e. freely reusable if the authors are quoted, in a non-commercial way and without modifying the content. This license is therefore incompatible with the Wiktionary and severely limits reuse by third parties. In addition, the following sentence on their website, "Any commercial reuse of data must be subject to prior agreement with Enssib." suggests that the drafters do not plan so much to comply with the user license. Finally, the exploration in the site is pleasant, but it is difficult, at this stage of development of the object and with the way it is described, to know what it will be exactly. A chronicle by Noé.

Curiosité

Dans son livre Le grand bêtisier des mots, Claude Gagnière propose quelques mots bègues, c’est-à-dire composés d’une répétition, comme flonflon, tsoin-tsoin ou zinzin. Parmi la quinzaine de mots cités, il y en a des bien plus rares, tels douk-douk et ylang-ylang.

Un script a permis de rapidement faire la liste de tous les mots bègues qui sont référencés dans le Wiktionnaire, ce qui donne quelques centaines de résultats. Sans tenir compte des chiffres ou des lettres doubles, la liste commence par : abab, agar-agar, aï-aï, Akiaki, ami-ami, et se termine par : zizi, zonzon, Zoug-Zoug, zozo. On trouve de tout : des onomatopées, des expressions, des noms propres, etc. Les trois plus longs de la liste : jugulaire, jugulaire, cinquante-cinquante et variable variable. Dans les noms propres, on trouve bien sûr Baden-Baden, mais aussi plusieurs villes burkinabées, comme Nioronioro, Gorom-Gorom ou Bouroum-Bouroum. Plus amusant : Ouioui et QwaQwa. Évidemment quelques faux positifs (très peu) se glissent dans la liste, par exemple entent, rentrent, surassuras ou useuse. On finira avec des noms d’oiseaux, qui semblent s’être regroupés autour de la lettre p : pitpit, pleu-pleu, plui-plui et pioupiou. — une chronique par Romainbehar

LexiSession sur les toilettes

Impulsées par le Fantastique Groupe d’utilisateurs et d’utilisatrices de Wiktionnaire, les LexiSessions visent à proposer des thèmes mensuels pour dynamiser l’ensemble des Wiktionnaires simultanément. Les thèmes sont suggérés en amont sur Meta et annoncés chaque mois sur la Wikidémie, l’espace principal de discussion.

La LexiSession de novembre était sur le thème des toilettes mais celui-ci semble n’avoir que peu intéressé les contributeurs et contributrices, puisque le thésaurus WC n’a été que très peu amélioré. Tant pis !

Pour le mois de décembre, le thème proposé est le thé !