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Wiktionary is a multi-lingual dictionary and a lot more, and a wiki community, with a number of sub-projects on the go. This page is a convenient starting point for organizing both. Contributions from newcomers are welcome. If you would like to learn more about the mechanics or social norms of contributing, the below lists should be helpful. If you haven't already, you may want to create an account (why?).

Contact us

• Beer parlour (general comments/questions)
• Tea room (comments/questions about particular words)
• Mailing list
• IRC Channel
• Wiktionarians
• Administrators

Help!

• Help:Contents
• Tutorial
• How to edit a page
• Sandbox (a safe place for testing syntax)
  • Sandbox Template (another safe place for testing syntax and templates)
• Wiktionary:Index to Internals - Index to functions, utiltities and other internals of Wiktionary.

Policies, guidelines, and policy discussions

• What to include in an article
• Criteria for inclusion
• Style guide
• Guide to adding quotations to articles
• Discussion about categories
• A note about idioms
• Discussion on pictures
• Discussion on thesaurus aspects of articles
• Discussion about use of a defining vocabulary to guide writers
• Index to templates in use in Wiktionary - please check these before creating any new templates.

Licensing

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

Reference

• Regular English Inflection
• Wiktionary:Webster
• Wiktionary:Utilities - proposal to merge this into Wiktionary:Index to Internals
• Wiktionary:Index to Internals - Index to functions, utiltities and other internals of Wiktionary.
• Wiktionary:Glossary - Glossary of Terms, Abbreviations etc used within Wiktionary

Lists of Entries nominated as needing attention

• Wiktionary:Requests for deletion, category:Requests for deletion.
• Wiktionary:Requests for Cleanup, category:Requests for Cleanup.
  

With the above two,you can go there and add your own entries, or help tidy up the already nominated entries. But best first to see Cleanup and deletion process

• Category:Webster 1913 - pages which have not been, or have only partly been, updated since importation from the Webster 1913 edition.
• Special:Wantedpages - pages referenced, but not existing. Can you create an entry for these links?
• Category:Stub - articles that are placeholders, waiting for definition. OR, just a sub-section is undefined.
• Category:Definitionless_words:_English - words entered as translations, but missing actual English definition.
• Wiktionary:Requested articles:English - a list of articles manually requested by people.
• Category:Articles_that_need_to_be_wikified - ASCII articles that need 'wiki syntax added.
• Wikipedia's Move to Wiktionary list - long articles that belong here in Wiktionary (shortened.)
• Special:Shortpages - pages with either zero or little content (30 characters or less), and therefore needing a proper entry made for them.
• Special:Uncategorizedpages - see Wiktionary:Categorization

See also - Wiktionary:Lists of words needing attention

Multilingual issues

• Index of language indexes
• List of languages
• Wiktionary language considerations
• Resources for translators

Underweorc and Éacan

There are a number of sub-projects on the go at any one time, developing certain aspects of Wiktionary. Ealla forðunga wilcumoda.

• Phrase book
• WikiSaurus - a Wiktionary based Thesaurus
• Concordances
• Glossary of Terms used in Wiktionary
• Index to all the organisational aspects of Wiktionary - functions, utilties etc. If you find out what something does, please add it to this index.
• 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.
• Wiktionary:List of words all Wiktionaries should have
• Special:Categories