User:Eclecticology

Number 7

I live in the Vancouver, BC, Canada area, and enjoy learning about all sorts of new things. Words are only one of my many fascinations.

I believe that Wiktionary provides some amazing challenges for doing dictionaries differently, and I'm thrilled to have jumped in on the project´s first day.

Things that I've worked on

 * 1) How Chinese characters can best be represented in a Latin context;
 * 2) Tracking, integrating and adapting the Webster 1913 material to suit our purposes;
 * 3) Developing consistent formats for our articles;
 * 4) Putting the titles of various attempts at interlanguage indexing into a common format;
 * 5) Adding strange words and their etymologies as I find them.

Things that I avoid working on

 * 1) Pronunciations, except where it's necessary to distinguish two meanings of the same word...but I do prefer IPA over SAMPA.
 * 2) Translations; there are plenty of others who are happy to do that.

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