Wiktionary talk:Main Page/Archive 10

Bengali Wiktionary (bn)
User:-sche, Bengali Wiktionary has moved up to 10,300+ (bn:Special:Statistics). Please move it up from 1,000+ to 10,000+ on the main page. Thanks in advance. --Aftabuzzaman (talk) 00:06, 1 April 2018 (UTC)


 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 00:20, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Wiktionary in Limburgish: +100,000 entries
With the entry Nehemia, the Wiktionary in Limburgish reached 114,623 entries in March 31st, 2018.

Leonard Joseph Raymond (talk) 20:59, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Updated. — justin(r)leung { (t...) 03:41, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Calculation of entry count
How is the entry count calculated? I just noticed that none of the columns at WT:Statistics give the number that's on the Main Page (according to those stats, the Main Page count is a significant underestimate). Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:54, 14 December 2018 (UTC)


 * We use . If you check some of the other wikis, such as ru:Main Page, es:Plantilla:Portada:Encabezado, or km:Main Page, you will find  there. —Stephen (Talk) 19:40, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, now I'm confused. is used on the "Main Page" of each Wiktionary to display the number of articles in that Wiktionary, and that's the figure that I'm familiar with. But you indicated WT:Statistics, and I don't know about that page. I don't understand the columns and I don't know how the figures are generated. There is also Statistics/generated, which  generates from a dump. I'm sure that Ungoliant can explain, but I don't know anything about those statistics pages. —Stephen (Talk) 20:00, 23 December 2018 (UTC)


 * And, to explain the difference: NUMBEROFARTICLES automatically counts the number of pages in the article namespace, whereas in the manual count of "entries" on WT:STATS, different language sections on the same page are counted as different entries. It's possible we should add the number of entries (from STATS) beside the number of articles. (The main page's count of the number of languages is already taken from, and anually updated based on, STATS.) - -sche (discuss) 19:55, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, that makes sense now. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:47, 24 December 2018 (UTC)

Russian Wiktionary
Russian Wiktionary since 17 December 2018 has more than 1 million arcites (see Meta). Please move higher the link to Russian Wiktionary. --Brateevsky (talk) 14:16, 23 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Done. —Stephen (Talk) 19:17, 23 December 2018 (UTC)

English Dialect Dictionary
I believe that Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (six volumes from 1898 to 1905) is in the public domain. Perhaps the words can be incorporated into Wiktionary (where not already present)? Epa101 (talk) 09:07, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * We don't incorporate other dictionaries (see WT:CFI), and this wouldn't be the place to make suggestions (try WT:ID, perhaps). —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 21:35, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

Project proposal: Enrichment of multilingual STM terms
Hallo, I am proposing here a project aimed to enrich the scientific/technical/medical (STM) terms on Wikitionary. From one side, I would adds some terms automatically from the corresponding Wikipedia English pages and make an assessment of relation between the two kind of contents. The process to such evaluation/enrichment would be shared and made available as pseudo-code with the related discussion and comments. Second, I would address such procedure as a multi-language process, making some enrichment/evaluation also on Italian language (my mother tongue), also by hand. If you want to support my proposal and/or if you have questions, please add your comment at the bottom of the project page or write me on the personal discussion page.

Thank you, best --Marco Ciaramella (talk) 16:55, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
 * This idea sounds somewhat unclear, and I can't tell if you know how Wiktionary works or what content we include. In any case, this is not the right place to talk about it. If you want feedback, WT:BP might be best for this idea, but you should try giving concrete examples of what you intend to do. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:12, 15 January 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your feedback. I will expose the proposal there, making the points as clear as possibile in the discussion. Best, --Marco Ciaramella (talk) 13:24, 16 January 2019 (UTC)

Left-aligned "Behind the scenes"
Would it be possible to make the "Behind the scenes" information appear on the left side of the page just under the introductory text? It would make the page shorter and the list of Wiktionaries in other languages more visible. —The Editor's Apprentice (Talk•Edits) 22:42, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Invalid time
A word of the day box has an "Error: Invalid time" JohnSmith13345 (talk) 14:26, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Known problem, should be fixed now. – Jberkel 17:31, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

Number of Languages
There are now over 4000 languages on Wiktionary. Andrew Sheedy (talk) 02:45, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Updated. —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 18:26, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

Wiktionary in Faroese: +1,000 entries
With the creation of all entries with books of the Bible in Faroese on this Wiktionary, he reached 1,328 entries.

Leonard Joseph Raymond (talk) 02:50, 13 January 2020 (UTC)


 * ✅ Equinox ◑ 11:56, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Add a toolbox at the top of this page
I suggest adding a Main Page toolbox to the top of this page (Wiktionary talk:Main Page).

English Wikipedia has one.

It just needs to have links to both WOTD entries for yesterday, today and tomorrow. Also a link to purge.

The reason is to provide a quick way for errors to be located (example).

PS: Please check my example diff to make sure I made a correct change.--Commander Keane (talk) 02:33, 31 January 2020 (UTC)

Albanian Wiktionary 10,000+
Hi, I noticed that the Albanian Wiktionary has just crossed the 10,000 articles line, but it is still listed under Wiktionaries with 1,000+ articles. Can this be fixed manually or do we have some script issue or is the number "10,000+" defined otherwise? -- Schmackes (talk) 23:22, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
 * There may be a regular process that does this automatically, but I don't see any harm in changing it manually, which I have done (after checking the statistics page on Albanian Wiktionary to verify, of course). Chuck Entz (talk) 00:37, 23 February 2020 (UTC)

Sundanese and Minang
Please update Sundanese to 1000+ entries, and Minang to 5000+ entries. Thanks. Bennylin (talk) 07:39, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Fixed su. What is the language code for the second? We don't have a category at 5000. DAVilla 05:12, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Wiktionary in Ancient Greek: +100 entries
With the creation of entries with books of the Bible in Ancient Greek, templates, categories and modules in Wikimedia Incubator, the Wiktionary in Ancient Greek reached 100 entries in February 28th, 2020.

Leonard Joseph Raymond (talk) 02:40, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I think we only list non-incubator wikis. Anyway where can I find it? Having some trouble locating the wiki — Mnemosientje (t · c) 12:01, 15 March 2020 (UTC)
 * You can find it in Wt/grc/Κυρία Δέλτος/Ϝ. There is written thus: Τόδε τὸ ἐγχείρημα πλέονας τῶν 118 ἐγγραφῶν περιέχει.
 * Leonard Joseph Raymond (talk) 16:58, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Important technical change coming
and others. T254287 documents an important change that impacts mobile users. Please can you take a look. Thank you! Jdlrobson (talk) 16:15, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Persian Wiktionary now has +100K entries
Hi. Persian (Farsi) Wiktionary now has +100K entries (per wikt:fa:Special:Stats). Can an administrator please update the main page? Thanks! Ahmad252 (talk) 08:28, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ — justin(r)leung { (t...) 08:40, 1 August 2020 (UTC)

Wiktionary in Maori: +1,000 entries
Wiktionary in Maori has reached 1,000 entries in July 9th, 2020, at 5:36am (UTC-3).

Leonard Joseph Raymond (talk) 19:58, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ — Eru·tuon 20:10, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Aymara and Sundanese
The Aymara and Sundanese Wiktionaries have both reached 1,000 entries. Old Man Consequences (talk) 13:18, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Moved su, added ay. DAVilla 04:51, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Georgian Wiktionary
Georgian Wiktionary has more than 10 000 articles, correct it--ჯეო/მიქაელ (talk) 08:57, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * მძლივს 10 000-ს ავცდით და ჩაასწორე :), ადმინი ხომ ხარ აქ--ჯეო/მიქაელ (talk) 08:59, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * done Dixtosa (talk) 09:18, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Thanks <3--ჯეო/მიქაელ (talk) 09:44, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Why does ; redirect to the main page?
I want to learn more about the ; character and when it is used. Turns out that I cannot even search that. Try clicking the character?

Is there a page for the semicolon? If there is, can someone undo the redirection?

BrightSunMan (talk) 16:10, 28 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Click the semicolon here: . Equinox ◑ 16:12, 28 December 2020 (UTC)


 * Use the search box at Special:Search. It doesn't redirect, and it has more features. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:57, 31 December 2020 (UTC)