Wiktionary:Information desk

Wiktionary > Discussion rooms > Information desk

You can search in the archives of Information desk:

Click here to start a new Information desk discussion.

Wiktionary discussion rooms (edit) see also: requests

Information desk start a new discussion | this month | archives Newcomers’ questions, minor problems, specific requests for information or assistance.

Tea room start a new discussion | this month | archives Questions and discussions about specific words.

Etymology scriptorium start a new discussion | this month | archives Questions and discussions about etymology—the historical development of words.

Beer parlour start a new discussion | this month | archives General policy discussions and proposals, requests for permissions and major announcements.

Grease pit start a new discussion | this month | archives Technical questions, requests and discussions.

All Wiktionary: namespace discussions 1 2 3 4 5 – All discussion pages 1 2 3 4 5

Welcome to the Information desk of Wiktionary, a place where users can ask questions about words and about Wiktionary, ask for help, or post miscellaneous ideas that don’t fit in any of the other rooms.

Sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~), code which produces your signature, followed by a UTC timestamp.

For past questions, see /Archives.

Information desk archives edit
2026 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2025 January February March April May June July August September October November December
Earlier years 2024 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2023 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2022 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2021 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2020 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2019 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2018 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2017 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2016 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2015 January February March April May June July August September October November December 2014 early 2014 July August September October November December pre-2014 2006 early 2007 late 2007 early 2008 late 2008 early 2009 late 2009 early 2010 late 2010 early 2011 late 2011 early 2012 late 2012 early 2013 late 2013

April 2026

Discontinuous entries

How do I go about directing to leave behind in the sequence leave something behind? JMGN (talk) 23:11, 1 April 2026 (UTC)

[[leave behind|'''''leave''' something '''behind''''']] DCDuring (talk) 00:07, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

But that "puts in blue" the whole sequence (leave something behind). I've seen real discontinuous links in some entries... JMGN (talk) 00:14, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

[[leave behind|'''''leave''']] ''something'' [[leave behind|'''''behind''''']] produces leave something behind. DCDuring (talk) 00:07, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Policy regarding AI-supplied entries

Hi! Looking for advice from the community about partially LLM-sourced entries & their automated uploading via a bot.

I'm a hobby linguist and I develop a Serbo-Croatian mobile dictionary. As part of feedback I often got requests from users to add missing words. My app's vocabulary data is partially based on Wiktionary anyway, so I thought it might be good and fair to promote added entries to Wiktionary as well, so that much broader audience can benefit from these edits. My usual routine is automated with LLMs: I fetch user feedback about a missing word, then my agent starts looking for it in reliable sources like Hrvatski jezični portal (HJP) and if it finds evidence that the word actually exists, it produces wikitext entry. It is well formatted and uses standard templates, so after a quick check I usually just add it manually. However, this workflow brings me to questions:

- is it considered by Wiktionary Community a safe (fair, normal) practice to add missing entries to Wiktionary in LLM-assisted workflows like the one I described?

- if so, can it be automated a step further by adding entries via API under a person's supervision?

For reference: I don't expect quite high rate of adding new entries. Perhaps, a few entries a week at maximum. Thank you for your advice. SergeyKhrykov (talk) 14:01, 2 April 2026 (UTC) Sergei

It happened that people add words through automated processes, such as via terminals, yes. Not sure what to call safe. If you look at each creation and press ENTER I see no issue. In principle, dictionaries, which you call reliable sources, contain ghost words, but the issue is less prevalent with Serbo-Croatian, and counterweighed by a word only being pushed if one complained about it missing; and people—fully manual editors—add junk manually as well, so you aim at basically just increasing productivity while keeping the error margin the same or lower. Fay Freak (talk) 23:44, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply. So I will keep adding entries one by one guided by users' signal, no bulk additions. I din't see much of a problem with ghost words yet, but for me the issue with Serbo-Croatian was in labelling variants properly with Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian etc. HJP (I'd say, the most reliable resource of SC online) is obviously biased towards Croatian, and information on real usage in Serbia or Bosnia if often lacking. I will try compensating for this by doing a little research on the Web. SergeyKhrykov (talk) 10:23, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

It would be easy for such a process to produce hundreds or thousands of partly hallucinatory entries before anyone becomes aware — leading to a huge cleanup job, or deletion of all the work because we don't know which parts to trust. I think it should not be allowed. At least do a limited number and then do full human review of the results before adding any more. ~2026-20486-19 (talk) 10:25, 3 April 2026 (UTC)

Wrong example in a template

Hi, I have noted, on the page proférer, that the template {fr-conj-auto} generates the following text: "[...] In 1990, the French Academy recommended that it [the future stem] be written profèrer-, reflecting the now common pronunciation /ɛ/, thereby making this distinction [between é /e/ and è /ɛ/] consistent throughout the conjugation (and also matching in this regard the conjugations of verbs like lever and jeter). [...]". Unfortunately, it uses a wrong example, because "appeler" and "jeter" are exactly the two verbs (with their derivatives) that used doubled consonants ("appell-", "jett-") for which this 1990 rectification does NOT apply (there is no "appèl-" nor "jèt-", the only accepted form is still only "appell-" and "jett-", and the template {fr-conj-auto} is duely adapted to these specific cases). Therefore, while the exemple "lever" is correct ("je lèverai" etc.), the example "jeter" ("je jetterai" etc.) is not correct and should therefore be removed or replaced by another valid verb (for example, peser -> "je pèserai", mener -> "je mènerai", etc.). If anybody can do the correction in the template, it would be really great. Thank you in advance. SenseiAC (talk) 01:54, 5 April 2026 (UTC)

Template:audio list level

I've been adding audio pronunciations to some entries, and I'm wondering whether the template should be its own bullet point or as part of the pronunciation for that dialect, i.e

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

versus

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdfoʊnz/

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

if I'm not incorrect I've seen both formats used, so I want to clear this up before I continue —aadenboy (talk|contribs) 01:32, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

I personally prefer option 2, whenever the audio actually reflects the pronunciation given in IPA. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:46, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

• Don't care —User:Vealhurl (talk 20:07, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

"that was not the wind"

I see the phrase "that was not the wind" as a reply or standalone phrase used to (ironically) affirm the overwhelming evidence of something. This is related to "must have been the wind".

That phrase could be added as a separate entry, or coalesced into a new definition under "wind".

The earliest tweet that I can find that still exists is this one: https://x.com/Crossbeeem/status/2023501881184760104 SuperminerJG (talk) 03:19, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

How would you phrase the new sense of "wind"? McYeee (talk) 03:07, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

probably something like:

(strictly as the wind, ironically) something irrelevant or unimportant SuperminerJG (talk) 12:29, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

I don't think it's used alone in that way, so shouldn't be at the wind entry. I mean, if it's only in contrast to a specific prior statement ("must have been the wind") then it seems wrong to include as though it had a generic meaning. ~2026-22133-15 (talk) 12:33, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Perhaps we need to drop CFI altogether. Clearly our contributors want to add any expression that is of any interest to them. Perhaps we need a new wiki: bonmotwiki. No, too restrictive. Wikomnivadit? DCDuring (talk) 12:58, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Technical issue with a multilingual column template

On the entry '!', I'm trying to add a 'Derived terms' subsection to the translingual symbolic usages. I want to add the derived term '∃!'. However, when I use {{col|mul|∃!}} it only links to ∃ when ∃! has its own entry. Any ideas? I looked at the template documentation to see if I might be doing something wrong. Thanks. TheTechnician27 (talk) 05:46, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Hm. Adding two exclamation points renders "∃!!" but links to ∃!, but that's not ideal. I'm stumped. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:28, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

This is caused by Module:languages § L-1585. jlwoodwa (talk) 18:43, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

Fixed by adding a colon as the prefi]x. — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 21:09, 24 April 2026 (UTC)

How to indicate that carnitas is either uncountable or plural in English

In English, for some speakers, including me, carnitas is an uncountable noun. For others, it is a plurale tantum, although the singular is probably attestable. How do we indicate this in the entry? Saying either "carnitas (uncountable)" or "carnitas pl (normally plural, singular carnita)" seems incomplete. I cant figure out how to get Template:en-noun to produce anything more specific.

I understand the usage of the word, but I don't know what the correct wording to express that is, and I don't know how to use the template to do that. McYeee (talk) 03:19, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

We could format it like gnocchi, i.e. with two head templates, though I think it might be clearer if they were on different lines rather than on the one run-on line. As Equinox would chide, we should make sure to distinguish uncountable from "does not pluralize". In this case, I can at least online find "some carnitas" as an uncountable thing a la "some rice", and even some instances of "much carnitas" instead of "many carnitas", so I think it is indeed sometimes uncountable. - -sche (discuss) 18:17, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! I've updated carnitas based on gnocchi. I can't find any attestation of "carnitases" or similar, so I haven't listed a plural of "carnitas". I wasn't sure what the right way to do a linebreak was, so I just left it as a single line with "or". If you'd prefer a linebreak, I have no objection to you changing it to that. McYeee (talk) 20:23, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

NEELIX

Hi, I was surfing and I noticed that a lot of pages are with an image of this... vandal? Is the site being hijacked? Tmagc (talk) 01:03, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Same. I was on the page تصدير and there was a black box with a green border, this image: commons:File:David Purdy.jpg, this image of some of Neelix's change history: commons:File:Neelix 5 Nov 2015.png and the words "Neelix A titty mastermind". --Leviavery (talk) 01:16, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Just a moron tampering with templates. All gone. Chuck Entz (talk) 04:21, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Template:xug-noun, Template:kzg-noun, Template:ryn-noun, Template:ams-noun, Template:tkn-noun

I'm about to generate these templates. Please inform me on whether it is correctly filled or not. Blahhmosh (talk) 16:50, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Could (Central) Kurdish be using Latin month names too?

Since this must be the right place for this topic, here I go with this again,

Images at https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2026/02/iranian-kurdish-groups-unite-against-tehran-regime-as-iraqi-militias-threaten-kurdistan-region.php and https://farsi.anf-news.com/%D8%B1%D9%88%DA%98%D9%87%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86/b-100299

Although this is from a meeting between Iranian Kurdish opposition groups in Erbil, Iraq, it does show something interesting

Transcription:
(ڕاگەیاندنی
هاوپایمانیی هێزە سیاسییەکانی کوردستانی ئیران
۳ی ڕەشەممەی ۱٤۰٤ - ۲۲ی فێورییەی ۲۰۲٦)

Instead of using the most commonly accepted name of February in the language, "شوبات (şubat)", it uses "فێورییە (fêwrîye)", which is borrowed from Persian فِوْرِیِه, which inturn was borrowed from French février, ultimately from Latin Februārius.

However, this is just one Latin month name. I haven't encountered other Latin month names being used in Central Kurdish aside from this one.

For reference, here's a list of the most commonly accepted month names in Central Kurdish (which come from Levantine/Iraqi Arabic, inturn borrowed from Syriac) taken from Central Kurdish Wikipedia along with the Latin-month names that I could find:
January - کانوونی دووەم (kanûnî duwem) - کانوونی دووەم (kanûnî duwem) (used in https://komala.co/%D8%A6%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%DB%86%D8%AE%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%81%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%86%DA%A4-%D9%84%DB%95-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%DB%8C-%DA%98%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%DB%8C%DB%8C%DB%95/)
February - شوبات (şubat) - فێورییە (fêwrîye) (already mentioned)
March - ئازار (azar) - مارس (mars) (used in https://www.zamenpress.com/Detail_wtar.aspx?jimare=3688)
April - نیسان (nîsan) - ئاوریل (awrîl) (used in https://www.instagram.com/p/CrnRqMJgH30/)
May - ئایار (ayar) - مەی (mey) (used in https://rukurdistan.net/articles.php?id=315)
June - حوزەیران (ḧuzeyran) - (couldn't find)
July - تەممووز (temmûz) - (couldn't find)
August - ئاب (ab) - (couldn't find)
September - ئەیلوول (eylûl) - سپتامبر (siptambir) (used in https://www.instagram.com/p/DOelB-kjBgf/)
October - تشرینی یەکەم (tişrînî yekem) - ئۆکتۆبر (oktobir) (used in https://komala.co/%D9%A5%DB%8C-%D8%A6%DB%86%DA%A9%D8%AA%DB%86%D8%A8%D8%B1-%DA%95%DB%86%DA%98%DB%8C-%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%86%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%8C-%D9%88%DB%95%D8%A8%DB%8C/)
November - تشرینی دووەم (tişrînî duwem) - نۆڤامبر (novambir) (used in https://www.kurdwomen.org/%D8%A8%DB%95-%D8%A8%DB%86%D9%86%DB%95%DB%8C-%D9%A2%D9%A5%DB%8C-%D9%86%DB%86%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%9B-%DA%95%DB%86%DA%98%DB%8C-%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D8%A8%DB%95%D8%B1/)
December - کانوونی یەکەم (kanûnî yekem) - دێسامبر (dêsambir) (used in https://komala.co/%D8%A8%DB%95-%D8%A8%DB%86%D9%86%DB%95%DB%8C-%D9%A1%D9%A0%DB%8C-%D8%AF%DB%8E%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%8C-%DA%95%DB%86%DA%98%DB%8C-%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C%DB%8C-%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%81/)

I couldn't find the Latin-derived Kurdish month names of the 3 summer months, although I did find a Telegram result of "ئاگاست" in Kurdish, but I'm not sure if Telegram counts as a source on Wiktionary. Adamnewwikipedianaccount (talk) 21:40, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

User:Mglovesfun

Though I do enjoy being told to fuck off, it's probably time to blank Gloves's userpage. —User:Vealhurl (talk 20:05, 22 April 2026 (UTC)

On a phrase discussed in politics

"There will be shots fired in the room." - Is this a well-known old phrase that says something like: "The invited speaker will attack invited guests with irony / cutting remarks, and it will be great fun to listen him."? Are there well-sourced citations of this sentence (or very similar) from before April of 2026? --Himbeerbläuling (talk) 09:47, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

We have an entry at shots fired, which is the same metaphor. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:15, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

How to override IPA?

At மின்தூக்கி, the IPA is wrong, should be mɪnt̪uːkːɪ as that is how it is pronounced. How do I override it, I tried but couldn't get it to work. TheAuroraBorealis (talk) 16:29, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

You can replace {{ta-IPA}} with {{ta-IPA|foo}}. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:14, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

I did exactly that, i.e. {{ta-IPA|mɪnt̪uːkːɪ}}, yet it's ignoring me? TheAuroraBorealis (talk) 19:17, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

That didn't work, is there any other way to fix it? TheAuroraBorealis (talk) 19:00, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

I've overwritten the IPA with {{IPA}}. Usually templates like {{ta-IPA}} try to predict the pronunciation from spelling plus some user modifications, but sometimes it doesn't work (that's also why {{en-IPA}} doesn't exist). HyperAnd (talk) 22:58, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! @HyperAnd TheAuroraBorealis (talk) 02:17, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Problem with Polish entry

Hi!

i have been working on an entry about Polish word fantasta. I would like to feature both a feminatyw (basically, a feminine version of the word) as well as a plural. However, I completely do not know how to do that using the templates :/

It would be also advisible to do a list of Polish cases of this word, but... again, I have no idea how to do that templates-wise.

My sandbox with the word is here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Kaworu1992/sandbox/fantasta

I would be glad for any help you can offer.

Best wishes -- Kaworu1992 (talk) 22:25, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi, it's me again!

I looked as how other PL entries were made and I believe I did everything the way is should be done (even if it is copy-paste). PLease, look at my entries of fantasta and fantastka and feel free to change them if I have done something wrong, okay? ;-)

Best wishes

-- Kaworu1992 (talk) 22:51, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

Heh, it's me again. i added photos of Polish fantasy authors cause it seemed apropriate (I hope captions are okay?). Do you also want some complete sample sentences in Polish with translations into English? And if you do, how could I have done so?

best wishes

--Kaworu1992 (talk) 23:02, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

@Kaworu1992 Howdy and welcome (back) to Wiktionary! I know nothing about Polish. However, I have a few comments about your edits:

1. There should be no spacing between the header and what comes after it. However, a line break is required before a heading.
2. The header level for Declension & Antonyms should be one level lower than the POS it is referring to. Usually, it contains (4) =. However, an entry with multiple etymologies may list these headers with (5) =.
3. (minor) Images should independently illustrate the concept without further context as much as possible. There are cases where an image simply cannot convey the concept well (and this might be one of them), like tasty.

Happy editing! TranqyPoo [💬 | ✏️] 01:19, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi!

i did what I could, mostly put declensions and antonyms in 4 '='. I dunno honestly what else do to here? ;-)

Best wishes1

--Kaworu1992 (talk) 01:30, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

@Vininn126 who knows all the bells and whistles that go in Polish entries. Chuck Entz (talk) 02:54, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping. As the entries stand now, they look fine. @Kaworu1992, you can learn about documentation by typing Template:TEMPLATENAME into the search bar, and you'll see that {{pl-noun}} should show you how to add things like female equivalents. Otherwise, you should look to existing Polish entries. Happy editing. Vininn126 (talk) 09:07, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

fochowaty

Hi!

I created the entry for fochowaty (i just had seen that this word has an empty link), but I do not know what templates to add in there in order to generate more categories. Any help would be appreciated! ;-)

Best wishes!

-- Kaworu1992 (talk) 00:56, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I think you should add a declension table under ====Declension====. For an adjective in this case, add {{pl-adecl}}. The template should automatically generate the right forms, but you can insert exceptions if they aren't right, see the documentation. HyperAnd (talk) 07:28, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

foszasty

Hi, dear friends :3

I created an entry for foszasty - I still barely know what I am doing, but the result at least looks good to me? :3

Best wishes, please, take a look and edit if neccesary --Kaworu1992 (talk) 10:46, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

It does not seem to meet WT:CFI. A big part of Wiktionary is whether a given word has enough real usage examples (quotes) to prove it is in use. Vininn126 (talk) 10:50, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

I am retracting my RFV, it appears to be an Internet word. This is less than ideal, but it's something. Vininn126 (talk) 10:54, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi ;-)

I mostly put it in cause it was "present" on the Polish Wiktionary. As to usage, hm... Google notes slightly more than 1000 uses of the word? So it certainly exist, but it's not THAT popular? ;-)

I also have kinda a problem, cause technically you can create adjective of foszasty - it would be foszasto. But... where you can say "you are bohaving foszasto!" the word itself seems to be more of a grammatical possibility than something that is used, even if rarely? Can somebody tell me what to do then?

Best wishes!

--Kaworu1992 (talk) 10:56, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

@Kaworu1992 We do not add words from other Wikis just because they exist, they need to meet CFI. That being said, the Internet usage seems to meet "in widespread use". We also do not add protologisms like foszasto just because it's possible, we add what exists. Vininn126 (talk) 10:57, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Okay, thank you, I will read on CFI :-) -- Kaworu1992 (talk) 11:03, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Cheers! Vininn126 (talk) 11:05, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

obrażalski

Dear Friends!

I created obrażalski cause it's quite a popular word and was not present on English WIktionary before. Please, look if everything is okay? ;-) -- Kaworu1992 (talk) 11:18, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

You don't have to report every word. I watch Related changes for Polish lemmas. Vininn126 (talk) 11:21, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

)h, omkay, thank you :-)

Also, I hava a question - is there a list of Polish entries without example sentences? Cause I feel like I could create some of them to make the dictionary better for Polish learners? But I have no idea hot to generate such a list :-(

Best wishes

--Kaworu1992 (talk) 11:26, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

You can use CAT:Polish terms with usage examples and then probably use an advance search to filter out the pages without it. Otherwise, perhaps @Chuck Entz could help generate a list. Most lemmas do not have usage examples. Vininn126 (talk) 11:30, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I suppose, only around... 3k have them (for Polish, obviously)? But if we would have a list of lemmas without them, then we could work with that, right? ;-)

--Kaworu1992 (talk) 11:33, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Yes. It'd be easiest to generate a list that you keep somewhere. There are around 99,700 lemmas at the moment. However, many are going to be Middle Polish or dialectal, for which we shouldn't have user generated usage examples. Obsolete terms might be best skipped as well. Vininn126 (talk) 11:35, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

You can use petscan to generate these lists: https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=46802421 Jberkel 10:42, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi! :)

Thank you for this link. There is a question though - can I erase "manually" items from this list? Currently on top is luto which seems to be some kind of local dialect and I do not really know the meaning of such a word - like 99% percent of Polish people. If I would be able to manually erase this (and similiar entries) from tthe list, it would be really cool, I think?

Best wishes

-- Kaworu1992 (talk) 23:30, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

If you want to exclude terms of specific categories (in this case, dialects); review the dialect label of the term/sense, then determine which category it belongs to by scrolling to the bottom and add it to PetScan. For example, luto shows label Kielce. Scrolling to the bottom reveals: Category:Kielce Polish. You can then add Kielce Polish to the Negative categories text box in PetScan and start a search. This will be a repetitive process for any dialects you are unfamiliar with. TranqyPoo [💬 | ✏️] 00:18, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Vilamovian?

Dear Friends.

I have been thinking the past day or two about what could be my niche on this website and think I found my calling. It is, in addition to writing examples of Polish words’ usage, I would like to write here entries about Vilamovian language.

The good thing: Polish Wiktionary has about 10 000 entries about the language, we have… 1 300-something? So there is some base for me to work with.

The bad thing: I do not speak the language and I feel like some kind of big ignoramus if I wanna work with it. However, since it’s a dying language I suppose Polish wiktionarians also didn’t speak the language, so… maybe it’s okay?

I think the first thing to do about Vilamovian in context of Polish-English Wiktionary is to generate a list of entries that exist on PL WK, but not on EN WK and then just move through the list, one entry at a time. It is possible to generate such a list?

I hope I am not being problematic?

Best wishes -- Kaworu1992 (talk) 20:18, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

It is not a requirement that you be fluent in a language to edit entries with terms from that language and you can certainly add value to entries without knowing anything in a language (e.g. adding photos or fixing obvious errors). But it is definitely a strong preference that you have some competence in a language before adding entries wholesale. I see the value in expanding our coverage of any language, and particularly one that is not documented well, but I think the community will largely discourage adding hundreds of entries in a language that you don't know at all. Do the entries at pl.wikt have citations? Can you read the source material that is cited there? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:02, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi!

Sorry, if my question has been weird. As to the citations - there is a 4 lingual, Viliamovian-Polish-German-English dictionary in an electronic form that i understand (cause I speak both Polish and English) but if writing the Wiktionary demands fluency in a language, then I am out. Sorry for being troublesome.

Best wishes

-- Kaworu1992 (talk) 22:28, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Polish przyrostki i przedrostki - a question

Hi!

I have a question. If I am using some kind of verb or other word in Polish with przyrostek and/or przedrostek (basically, letters that go before or after a word and are technically a part of it - it changes slightly semantic and sometimes even meaning) then I should write so in the "mother" word entry or maybe only in the "child" word?

It just struck me now, sorry if I have done something wrong... :-(

Best wishes -- Kaworu1992 (talk) 20:56, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Examples should go on the corresponding lemma. Examples with prefixes (przedrotki) go there, same with pages with suffixes. This also applies to aspectual pairs, i.e. if your example uses an imperfective form (niedokonany) then it goes there, not on the perfective one. Hope this helps. Vininn126 (talk) 22:31, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

poprosić

Hi!

I am not sure if "poprosić" is translated appropriatelly? It's just some... gentle version of "prosić" (which in itself is rather kind). Could somebody take a look at the definition and tell me what you think? If I would write the definition, I would define it as, maybe "to ask or beg politely"? What do you think?

Best wishes! -- Kaworu1992 (talk) 23:41, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

May 2026

On writing an Egyptian name in Unicode hieroglyphs

Hello! How can I write the name brbrta in Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs? Thanks! Cheers, Shadestar474 (talk) 21:25, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Coming in hot from someone who does not know Egyptian, maybe this will help? If I needed to find the individual characters, I would copy/paste from Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_block). —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:29, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the quick reply! I’ll be sure to check those out. Cheers, Shadestar474 (talk) 21:52, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Can I turn off the new popup from adding a page to watchlist?

Can I turn off the new popup from adding a page to watchlist? Zbutie3.14 (talk) 04:02, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Is there a move alternative for a section?

I think the gun section of xo should be moved to xó for etymology 1 and xò for etymology 2, as that is how they're spelled, but I can't find the right move template. is there a template I can use? Zonedbaser (talk) 06:14, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Please review WT:RFM and submit a request there using {{rfm}}. This is so an opportunity can exist for community consensus. TranqyPoo [💬 | ✏️] 16:19, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

thank you, i wanted to start a discussion Zonedbaser (talk) 05:34, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

rodent

I see 4 cute-to-modertely rodents on the page, but a dozen are in the source. Father of minus 2 (talk) 20:32, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

I guess you're talking about Wikipedia. The way Wikipedia and Wiktionary have different spacing limitations allows for this. Nothing to be done. Lumbering in thought (talk) 09:18, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Confirmed language of origin use = Usage notes or still Etymology?

misotheism Lumbering in thought (talk) 02:54, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Rhymes

I've been using the rhymes a lot recently because I'm a writer and I noticed some of the rhyme pages feature only items with no entry. That doesn't seem right to me, but is it? Like is that actually how it's supposed to work? Some examples: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9Bkh%CA%8Ak https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9Bli%C3%A6d https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9Bnd%C9%9Bmikju%CB%90b (found while browsing Category:English rhymes/ɛ-) Like am I supposed to be able to just make a rhyme page for whatever I want?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/%C9%9Bkl%C9%AA%C3%A7 this one has just a German word in it? ~2026-30103-51 (talk) 15:22, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Generally, red-linked terms indicate that a term exists, but may not meet CFI. In a perfect world, one would then verify if a term meets CFI and if not, then remove all red-links. However, this does not happen frequently or regularly. I do not recommend creating rhyme pages with words that you know do not exist. TranqyPoo [💬 | ✏️] 23:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)