Wiktionary:About Uyghur

Note 1: This guide is intended to provide guidelines both for creating Uyghur entries on English Wiktionary as well as for adding Uyghur translations to English words. The main guidelines for creating any entry on English Wiktionary is set forth in Entry layout; this page is an addition to that page, not a replacement.

Note 2: If a change occurs in the basic Wiktionary template (currently at Entry layout that affects Uyghur entries, then that change should be reflected here.

Entry name
The name of the entry is that of the word or phrase that you are defining.

The essentials

 * 1) Language header lets you know the language of the word in question (==Uyghur==).  It is almost always in a level two heading (See Wiktionary:How to edit a page for some basic terminology we use). When there is more than one language header on a page, the language headers should appear in alphabetical order with Translingual and English given priority.
 * 2) Part of Speech header It is the key descriptor for the grammatical function of the term in question (such as 'noun', 'verb', etc). The definitions themselves come within its scope.  This heading is most frequently in a level three heading, and a page may have more than one for a single language.
 * 3) Headword line is the line immediately following the part of speech header.  In the simplest entries, this will be just . It is preferred to make use of the standard headword templates provided.
 * 4) Definitions or Translations of the word appear as a numbered list in the part of speech section immediately following the headword line, though it is a good idea to include a blank line in between for ease of editing.

A very simple example
This is a simple entry for the word ئۈزۈم, and shows the most fundamental elements of an article:
 * 1) the word’s language (as a level 2 heading),
 * 2) its part of speech or "type" (as a level 3 heading),
 * 3) the word itself (using the correct Part of Speech template),
 * 4) a definition (preceded by "#", which causes automatic numbering),
 * 5) and links in the definition or translation for key words.

This example can be copied and used to start an article or section of an article.

Noun

 * 1) grape

Preferred order of sections
The part of speech section will often include simple translation(s) into English in place of definitions, but there may be subsections.

Following is the preferred sequence for these standard sections:

==Uyghur== ===Alternative forms=== ===Etymology=== ===Pronunciation=== ===Noun=== ====Usage notes==== ====Conjugation==== (Note: Only for verb entries) ====Quotations==== ====Synonyms==== ====Antonyms==== ====Related terms==== ===See also===

Please note that the Noun header is only one possible part of speech that may appear as the header. If the entry being created is for a Uyghur verb, then "Verb" should appear in place of the word "Noun" in the example above.

Etymology
If you read Uyghur, a good place to get the etymology information for a word is the ئۇيغۇر تىلىنىڭ ئىزاھلىق لۇغىتى. If the word is a derivative using a suffix/prefix and another word you can note that as well. Examples:
 * For
 * For

Etymologies should be traced back to lemma forms whenever possible.

Headword line templates
Most English entries use a headword template immediately following the part of speech header. For Uyghur entries, the following templates are available.

For lemma Noun entries (singular forms of nouns, not plurals):
 * for most of nouns
 * for last vowel change by parameter ى . In general, this can be change automatic. Example: child ; plural is.
 * for some nouns no change vowel. Example: calamity, catastrophe ; plural is

For lemma Verb entries (the infinitive):
 * for all verbs

For lemma Adjective entries (usually singular):
 * (see template page for information about indicating feminine form)

For non-lemma noun, verb, and adjective entries (e.g. plurals of nouns, forms of adjectives, and verb forms), may be used instead:

Some non-lemma forms may be better expressed with only the term bolded (or a template that produces such a result, such as ug-verb-form), while information on the form is provided on the definition line (through a template such as ug-verb form of). This is particularly helpful in verb forms, which may have multiple definitions.

Other Uyghur aids

 * About Uyghur/Todo
 * Category:Uyghur language
 * Uyghur transliteration
 * Category:Uyghur headword-line templates
 * Category:Uyghur form-of templates
 * Requested entries (Uyghur)
 * Appendix:Uyghur pronouns