User:AdamBMorgan

I'm still fairly new to Wiktionary.

I started editing on English Wikipedia before expanding into the other projects. I came to Wiktionary via Wikisource, where I have often annotated texts to include wikilinks to this project. I'm British, and a native speaker of English. I am not very good at using any other language but I can struggle through a few and know bits and pieces of several more.

I'm an admin on Wikisource and a lot of my activity on other projects can be found via my Meta userpage.

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Projects
My personal projects on Wiktionary.

Annotating Wikisource
Wikisource, my main project, usually allows wikilinking of unusual or archaic words to Wiktionary. Sometimes I found that there was no corresponding page on Wiktionary to which to link said words, so I ended up creating them myself. This was main avenue to editing Wiktionary for a while, following this pattern:
 * 1) Finding an odd or (to me) unknown word via Wikisource (or, sometimes, print books and other writing).
 * 2) Checking Wiktionary.
 * 3) Not finding a definition.
 * 4) Checking other sources to confirm that the word is real.
 * 5) Creating a new definition on Wiktionary based on the results of step 4.
 * 6) Adding a range of examples based on both step 4 and new searches of Wikisource, Google Books and other likely sources.

Fanspeak and science fiction

 * See Appendix:Fanspeak, Category:English fandom slang and Category:en:Science fiction

A much newer project, that came from my interest in pulp magazines and early fandom, as well as a life-long interest in science fiction. I found that most of these words were not documented on Wiktionary at all and so set about correcting that.

Useful external links

 * OED SF Citations Project
 * Jeff Prucher's blog (editor of Brave New Words)
 * Fanac Fan History Project
 * Fancyclopedia I (web version)
 * Fancyclopedia II (web version)
 * Fanzines (online fanzines)
 * eFanzines (online fanzines)
 * The Neo-Fan's Guide, 1955 (web version)
 * Gostak (online fanzines)
 * Le Zombie (online fanzines)
 * Ansible (online fanzines)
 * Mimosa @ Jophan.org (online fanzines)
 * Fancyclopedia III (info)
 * Fanlore (wiki/info)
 * ZineWiki (wiki/info)
 * Then archive (online fanzines/info)
 * rec.arts.sf.fandom via Google Groups

Common quote sources
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Dialect & slang
Growing out of the fanspeak project above, I have some interest in improving coverage of some other relatively obscure dialect, slang, cant etc. In terms of slang, this is about possibly obsolete slang with limited coverage online rather than new words that are covered elsewhere on the internet. Dialect is mostly varieties of British English, which can also be pretty obscure as far as the internet is concerned.

Occasional wikignoming
Missing quotations. Some are findable on Internet Archive or similar sources.
 * Abbreviated Authorities in Webster
 * Category:Requests for quotation by source

Shakespeare

 * Category:Requests for quotation/Shakespeare
 * Useful source: Shakespeare's Words
 * Useful sources on the Internet Archive:-
 * Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1889) by Mary Cowden Clarke (alternative)
 * A New and Complete Concordance ... (to the) Dramatic Works of Shakespeare (1894), vol 1, by John Bartlett (vol 2)

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Thesaurus

 * Thesaurus
 * Category:Thesaurus
 * Appendix:Roget's thesaurus classification
 * Roget's thesaurus (1911) on Project Gutenberg

Miscellany

 * Category:Antarctic English
 * Category:English exocentric verb-noun compounds

Activity

 * Definitions added (from cimmerianize)
 * Definition amendments (from Cimmerian)
 * Citations added (from scientifiction)
 * Citation amendments (from bazinga)
 * Thesaurus added (from sentient)
 * Thesaurus amendments (from ignorant)
 * Thesaurus categories (from Interjections)
 * Other categories added (from English words infixed with -h-)
 * Miscellany added (from )
 * Miscellany amendments (from Concordance:HP Lovecraft)

Reference

 * Citations
 * Special:PrefixIndex/Citations:, list of all pages in the Citations namespace.
 * Entry layout explained