User:Hippietrail

Who?
I’m an Aussie who has lived in most states of Australia. I’ve worked in the printing industry, as a software engineer, and in tourism. I do a lot of travelling, usually for long periods of time. Most recently one year hitchhiking around Taiwan, mainland China, Mexico, Laos, Thailand, and Malaysia.

My first (logged-in) edit on Wiktionary was on 10 December 2003 where I added translations to the English definite article, the. Prior to that I had just started playing with Wikipedia after a few years on Everything2. I was very excited to find Wiktionary since I’d been thinking for years that the world needed a free dictionary of every language that could be contributed to by anybody and everybody over the Internet. I discussed the idea with some people at the GUADEC, the GNOME Users and Developers European Conference. At that time I was an active contributor to AbiWord, an open source word processor.

My long term dream for Wiktionary is to make it queryable like a database. This requires much work on standardisation of formats and on parsing.

My JavaScript

 * User:Hippietrail/addstructure.js
 * wraps HTML s around the sections delineated by headings
 * User:Hippietrail/ajaxtranslinks.js
 * in translation tables turns blue links orange if the specified language has no entry on that page
 * User:Hippietrail/apitest.js
 * some old experiment
 * User:Hippietrail/citetab.js
 * deprecated since the citations tab has been standard for a long time now
 * User:Hippietrail/custom-alpha.js
 * development version of the WT:PREFS code
 * User:Hippietrail/custom.js
 * the WT:PREFS code
 * User:Hippietrail/debugportlet.js
 * old extension to provide an area in the navbar for other extensions to output debug info
 * User:Hippietrail/domtokenizer.js
 * old experiment to use a recursive parser on the DOM of the translation table
 * User:Hippietrail/editor.js
 * for when I want to experiment with conrad's official version of editor.js
 * User:Hippietrail/filtercontribs.js
 * hide those of my contributions which have not changed since I edited them
 * User:Hippietrail/firebug.js
 * User:Hippietrail/headingtooltips.js
 * provide explanatory tooltips for standard headings
 * User:Hippietrail/hippajax.js
 * library for doing Ajax calls, no longer used in new code
 * User:Hippietrail/localisenavbars.js
 * experiment to use Ajax for localised versions of some interface text
 * User:Hippietrail/monobook.js
 * my custom JavaScript
 * User:Hippietrail/navbars.js
 * User:Hippietrail/nearbypages-alpha.js
 * development version of nearbypages.js
 * User:Hippietrail/nearbypages.js
 * adds links to previous and next pages for each language section with correct alphabetical order for many languages
 * User:Hippietrail/perlanguage-alpha.js
 * development version of perlanguage.js
 * User:Hippietrail/perlanguage.js
 * adds random and interlanguage links near each language heading
 * User:Hippietrail/personalsidebar.js
 * allows each user to have a customised sidebar
 * User:Hippietrail/querytest.js
 * User:Hippietrail/singlesenses.js
 * User:Hippietrail/softtemplates.js
 * User:Hippietrail/wfMsgCentre.js
 * service for other scripts to get translated interface text
 * User:Hippietrail/wiktionaryprefs.js
 * old unfinished code for our own extra preferences from before WT:PREFS

My categories

 * Wiktionary issues
 * Category:Dutch nouns with incomplete gender
 * Dictionary issues
 * Category:Allegedly untranslatable words
 * Category:Entries which need Arabic script
 * Category:CJKV radicals
 * Category:English eponyms
 * Category:English irregular plurals
 * Category:English nouns which have interacted with their indefinite article
 * Category:English words affected by prescriptivism
 * Category:English words with multiple etymologies
 * Category:English words with optional capitalisation
 * Category:Italian nouns with irregular gender
 * Category:Japanese-only CJKV Characters
 * Category:Korean-only CJKV Characters
 * Category:Metasyntactic words
 * Category:Politically correct terms
 * Category:Spanish nouns with irregular gender
 * Category:Spanish verb plus plural noun compounds
 * Category:Unknown etymology
 * Category:Vietnamese-only CJKV Characters
 * Pseudocategories
 * User:Hippietrail/Article titles with apostrophes
 * User:Hippietrail/English words affected by prescriptivism
 * User:Hippietrail/Mexicanisms
 * User:Hippietrail/Silly phrases which should not be in a serious dictionary
 * User:Hippietrail/Spanish ethnonyms in -eño
 * User:Hippietrail/Spanish ethnonyms in -(t)eco
 * User:Hippietrail/Spanish shops in -ería
 * User:Hippietrail/English words affected by prescriptivism

Subpages

 * User:Hippietrail/Cyrillic accents
 * User:Hippietrail/Template:CJK graphical origins section
 * User:Hippietrail/Template/Pronunciation section
 * User:Hippietrail/Template/Rhyme page
 * User:Hippietrail/IPA/English
 * User:Hippietrail/IPA:French
 * User:Hippietrail/IPA:Portuguese
 * User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Chinese Characters (Traditional)
 * User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Chinese Characters (Simplified)
 * User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Japanese Kanji
 * User:Hippietrail/Frequency:Most Useful CJK Characters
 * User:Hippietrail/List of well-known English print dictionaries
 * User:Hippietrail/akeytt - wikibits function that handles tooltips

Useful vim regexes:
 * Requested articles:
 * Find all terms which now have an entry:
 * Find all terms which have no entry:
 * Now remove all other terms:
 * Now remove all other terms:
 * Now remove all other terms:

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