User talk:Mathemaster

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 * Thank you very much for your nice welcome! I hope that I do not will have many questions, because I already have wikimedia experience from my work at the German wiktionary. But I hope that I can help here with German pages... and additionally improve and use my English... Greetings, Mathemaster 12:14, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Latin verbs
We are currecntly in a state of transition for out Latin verbs. Some time ago, we decided to adopt the standard practice of using the first principal part (1st person sing. present active indicative) as the lemma form, so the entry for the lemma should have the definition. Other forms, including the infinitives, will be labelled according to their inflection. See pages like amo and lavo for reference of what such pages should look like. --EncycloPetey 21:25, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for this information. I think every Wiktionary solved this problem - 1st person form or infinitive as the lemma form - differently. For example, in the German Wiktionary, we are taking the infinitive as the lemma form... But in future, I will keep to the standards of the English Wiktionary (with 1st person form as the lemma form). After I have been through the "Category:Translations to be checked (German)" -still over 500(!) entries... Greetings --Mathemaster 22:02, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Yes, some Wiktionaries are different. However, the Latin Wiktionary and most printed Latin dictionaries use the 1st principal part, so we chose to use that too. --EncycloPetey 22:45, 6 August 2007 (UTC)