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Contact and discussions
Contact, discussions and requests on Wiktionary: Other means of communication:
 * Discussion rooms or forums:
 * Information desk – for questions from newcomers and newbies
 * Tea room – for questions concerning particular words
 * Etymology scriptorium – for discussion of word origin
 * Beer parlour – for policy discussion and cross-entry discussion
 * Grease pit – for technical discussion such as on templates, wiki dumps and JavaScript tweaks
 * Request pages – for processes such as attestation and deletion
 * Requests for verification – requests for attestation of entries by providing citations (English · CJK · Italic · Other Non-English)
 * Requests for deletion – requests for deletion for reasons not related to a lack of appropriate citations (English · CJK · Italic · Reconstruction · Other Non-English)
 * Requests for deletion/Others – requests for deletion of pages such as categories, appendices and templates
 * Requests for moves, mergers and splits
 * Requests for cleanup
 * Votes – votes that establish community policies
 * Fun stuff – fun community competitions
 * Sign up to our mailing list
 * Chat with Wiktionarians in real-time on our IRC channel or on our Discord server.
 * Get help from the administrators.
 * Find out more about the Wiktionarians.

Monitoring discussions:
 * Recent changes in the "Wiktionary:" namespace
 * Recent changes in Category:High volume discussion pages
 * Recent changes in currently running votes

Help pages

 * See Help:Contents for an overview
 * Read our tutorial
 * Find out how to create a new page
 * Read about editing a page
 * Discover our norms for Interacting with other users
 * Experiment with editing in the sandbox
 * See changes in how to edit at News for editors
 * Can't find the word you are looking for? Request it!

Policies and guidelines
Key policies:
 * Entry layout – How to layout and format article sections; essential for creation and expansion of entries
 * Criteria for inclusion – What deserves to be included in Wiktionary
 * Blocking policy – Outlines when it is appropriate for administrators to block users

Secondary and possibly outdated guidelines:
 * Style guide – Guide for how to stylize articles
 * Quotations – Guide to adding quotations to articles
 * Categories – Discussion about categories
 * Idioms – A note about idioms
 * Pictures – Discussion on pictures
 * Index to templates in use in Wiktionary&mdash;please check these before creating any new templates.
 * Policies and guidelines

Discussion on policy:
 * Beer parlour

Licensing

 * Copyright policy
 * License discussion
 * Using public domain works as a base

Reference

 * Appendix:English parts of speech – About inflection of English words
 * Wiktionary:Webster – A guide to Webster's Dictionary
 * Utilities
 * Glossary – Glossary of terms, abbreviations etc. used within Wiktionary
 * All reference pages

Things to do
Things to do:
 * Todo – coverall list
 * Todo lists – regularly refreshed lists of pages that need fixing
 * Requests for cleanup (Automated list).

See also: Category:Requests
 * Translations to be checked – pages with translations to be checked.
 * Definitions needed – articles that are placeholders, waiting for definition. OR, just a sub-section is undefined.
 * Requested entries – a list of articles manually requested by people.
 * Uncategorised pages – see Categorization

Projects
There are a number of Wiktionary projects on the go at any one time, developing certain aspects of Wiktionary. All contributions are welcome.
 * Phrasebook – a multilingual resource for learning simple phrases in foreign languages
 * Swadesh lists – lists of approximately 200 basic vocabulary words in various world languages
 * Thesaurus – a Wiki-based thesaurus
 * Concordances
 * Frequency lists – lists of the most common words from various sources
 * Index to templates – trying to establish a master list of templates in use in Wiktionary, to avoid errors in creating new templates unnecessarily. Please add any templates you know to this list.
 * Inflection templates

See also Wiktionary projects and Category:Wiktionary projects.