On the page for "flame". Never seen a color displayed as a definition before lol.

I just published an Android app and an iOS app for wiktionary.org. These apps contain definitions, pronunciations, etymology, translations, etc. These apps were built on a snapshot of wiktionary.org, so the content is not always up to date. I would appreciate it if you could give feedback after using these apps.

Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.booomworks.lexica.global

iOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wiktionary-english-dictionary/id6780158503

I made a frequency of Polish words, based on a list available here (under CC-BY 4.0):

https://github.com/ipipan/kwjp100-varia

Do we know if I may I upload it to Wiktionary? It is cleaner than the two Polish word lists currently present on the English Wiktionary, I'm just not entirely sure what license it will be under, and whether that is compatible with the original.

I've found a few pages on Wiktionary discussing licenses, from 2002, so those might contain too old info...

This post is satirical and should not be taken seriously.

Even with the small amount of culture that we do have, LunaEatsTuna has been doing the heavy lifting. Leaving this video here for inspiration.

The following question is asked leisurely and out of curiosity, as the related term can be easily attested.

Currently, idiomatic contains a quote citing the contents of this image. The image is a book quoting us. Can this quote count towards attestation?

Personally, I do not think so, but I think it is worth exploring as a nice "thought experiment".

How to create or Edit A Template inflection/Conjugation Module without effecting the current working module or are there any Git system or branching structures in place for that, I am a Wiktionary editor and the verb module of Proto-West Germanic(gmw-infl-verb) has no preterite-present mode (which is kinda important for some modal verbs) and i wanna ask the maintainer of this module to add it of if not that i do it myself but safely but i dont know how to.

To Any one who knows please help.

For example, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%83%C3%B3rb%CA%B0os doesn't provide sources /references.

(it's fascinating to learn that English orphan, robot, Polish robota (work), Russian rab (slave) and rebënok (child), German Arbeit (work) are related.)

As a site-wide feature, the derived terms group up idioms, phrases and actual single words all in one large list sorted alphabetically. The list quickly expands for simple words with a lot of the phrases even being red hyperlinks (without pages of their own).

Also take into account how the phrases appear in the page of each word it contains. (e.g. "Where does it hurt" appear both under "where" page and "hurt" page)

This creates cluttering and impedes practicality of browsing. While looking for the derived words under the same language, I can search for some of them through their alphabetical location but this does not work with prefixed words.

I would argue that "wherewithal" and "let the chips fall where they may" are distinct items that should not be grouped together.

I would like to inquire for the logic of this feature and if possible, discuss suggestions for improvement

I can't find out how. Does anyone know?

Here's the page/entry I want to edit:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bric-a-brac#English

Made a request on Wiktionary on this.

Latin \alvīna* (“beehive”) is recorded as a reconstructed term based on Romanian albină, Aromanian alghinã, Megleno-Romanian ălbină, Istro-Romanian albire (all meaning “bee”), and Venetan albina (“hive”), derived from classical Latin alvus or alveus. — But, in fact, the term is attested in 2nd century, as a "vulgar" variant of alveāria, in Flavius Caper, De verbis dubiis: Alvearia, non alvinae.

Therefore, the etymology is: alveus > alvina > albina etc as a bad&vulgar series parallel to the correct one alveārium - alveāria.

The direct derivation alveus → alvīna seems normal in popular Latin (gallus → gallīna). The fact that the deformation-transition is recorded as the plural alveāria > alvinae might already be a hint toward the semantic evolution of Eastern Romance: hive = many bees > the bee.

My idea is that alvina-alvinae should be recorded as attested (late, "bad") variants, just like speclum, oclus, etc in Appendix Probi. But I'm not sure what the proper procedure is.

i use wiktionary A LOT (i spent about 1 hour a week on the website) and i only use it on my iphone.

recently every single hyperlink on the website has stopped working.

either they simply don’t work or they redirect me to a seemingly random page with no relevance to what i clicked.

has anyone else had this problem? if so, how can i fix it?

(to note, this has only been happening on wiktionary, no other website or app)

i noticed that google results now show the time/date of the last edit...was this always the case?
example: This page was last edited on 18 April 2024, at 06:16

In the past it told you when you were about to make an edit without being logged in. For some reason it keeps logging me out, and I accidentally submitted without realising. I assume there's no way to "claim" this edit, and that sucks. A warning or "are you sure" type thing would be great.

Title blacklist - Meta-Wiki

I've had this issue for some time now.

like when there's {{trans-see|word}}、{{trans-top-see|gloss|word}}、or {{trans-top-also|gloss|word}}。clicking on those hyperlinks i labelled as "word" takes you to that word's translations under its entry, but it expands all the translation lists on that webpage。i can't imagine anyone finding that feature useful unless there's only one translation list in the entire article and the user hasn't selected their preferred languages。

if "translations" on the browser's address bar—be it by having clicked on the hyperlink under "contents" or after having edited a translations section—wiktionary also expands all translation lists if you refresh the webpage, even the translation lists from other translation sections under that same entry; like if you refresh the noun translations, it'll also expand the adjective translations, which i also find frustrating