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How about a criticism section?

I cannot imagine that people and academics have not been criticising the Wiktionary project. I know I have. Isn't there anything to mention in that area? Tomsintown 12:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. Constructive criticism is great to improve anything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.73.151.118 (talk) 23:14, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Merge from Kurdish Wiktionary

Please merge any relevant content from Kurdish Wiktionary per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kurdish Wiktionary. Thanks. —Quarl ^(talk) 03:10, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prominent editors

I'm wondering whether prominent editors of Wiktionary should be mentioned in this article and/or have standalone articles on WP. The most notable example (to me) is Equinox. Consider that for a famous print dictionary the editors would be mentioned as a matter of course in any WP article.

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Probably not, for several reasons. Firstly, there's no established way to determine who are the "prominent" editors of Wiktionary. Secondly, even if we somehow gained consensus on such a list of editors, we still need to establish the notability of these editors if we were to write articles or major sections about them. Finally, even if we just try to make a passing mention of them, I doubt that there are any reliable, secondary sources that we can cite. If you look at articles on major dictionaries like the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's Dictionary, you'll find that wherever the editors are mentioned, they have already satisfied these three criteria. Liu1126 (talk) 03:02, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The last of the caption should not include the dot.

I would ask for the request as above. 2001:EE0:4BC4:C1D0:8C60:E4FE:CDA3:8239 (talk) 10:17, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This edit request has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request.

Above. 2001:EE0:4BC2:16B0:2923:8EBD:8993:C44A (talk) 12:01, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Liu1126 (talk) 02:53, 17 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unexpected Return

I am not sure where better to put this but ..

If i press Return on <https://www.wiktionary.org/> i go to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=&go=Go>, which is annoying to say the least. Similarly after entering a word.

I believe this is a new behaviour. Please change it (back). 81.101.155.196 (talk) 19:58, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]