Wiktionary talk:Project-Wanted articles

Regarding the question: Should we be prioritizing common words before obscure ones? I personally vote "YES." I threw entries into this list from Special:Wantedpages starting from the end - the "most linked" undefined articles. The number of times a word is linked seems synonymous with it's priority, at least for this quick-list. I'm not at all sure how often Special:Wantedpages is updated - it looks like a weekly automatic run. That's why rush is still listed on it.


 * Absolutely. This list is specifically and only for terms linked many times within Wiktionary yet lacking definitions. &mdash; Hippietrail 01:01, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Anyone like the idea of adding one or two foreign language words? Or even a whole mess of them, starting from #2000 linked 383 times? (What is that, Japanese for can?) --Connel MacKenzie 00:26, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * We already have a few such pages - they are largely neglected however. I don't think it's time to start pushing these in highly visible places like these templated lists until the English dictionary is considered well fleshed out. After that it will become a much higher priority to get more foreign words and translations in. &mdash; Hippietrail 01:01, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * OK. I just figured one Japanese, one Russian word being visible might encourage more foreign input.  C'est la vie!  --Connel MacKenzie 01:07, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * Thinking about it since my last reply, you might have a good point. Maybe if we give one line to words in various languages which are recognizable enough that passing strangers might be able to add them. But how to choose such words so that they won't just sit and gather dust...? &mdash; Hippietrail 02:01, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I was thinking more of letting just one word work it's way onto the list. If it drifts all the way to the left and no one touches it, then it goes round-robbin to the end of the queue.  Then drop in one from a different language.  If a Japanese word gets defined in two seconds flat, then try and queue up a bunch.  If a Russian name slides by, then avoid Russian for a week or two.  My biggest problem is that I'm so American, I usually can't tell what language a given foriegn term is in.  Most of the time they appear as either "??", "???" or "????" on my browser.


 * I found the Wanted list to be really nice, as the words there are linked by lots of different things; I would characterise them as fairly common words. To select appropriate foriegn words, I'd just start from entry #2000 and work my way backwards as I did for English words.  Taking the time to research them individually, then deciding which ones are "easy" would be very time consuming.  --Connel MacKenzie 14:10, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * In the initial phase of introducing foriegn words, Japanese had a small flurry of changes added. But I am not able to queue this character set...Jun-Dai corrected my bad link, but hasn't queued any more up from Special:Wantedpages...i.e. the top 10-20 entries.  Could someone please queue them into the commented-out section?  --Connel MacKenzie 18:05, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Other senses of words
Please do no "correct" a word to its "proper" headword sense! Entries appear on this list because they are heavily linked. If a word varient bothers you, then please take the time to open that word, check "What links here" and fix the links of the words that link to the "wrong" sense. When done, add the redirect of the "wrong" sense to the "correct" sense anyhow, so the rest of us can see that it is done.