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Wiktionary:Welcome, newcomers

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llo, and welcome! Wiktionary is a multilingual free dictionary, being written collaboratively on this website by people

m around the world. Entries may be edited by anyone!

signed as the lexical companion to Wikipedia, the encyclopedia project, Wiktionary has grown beyond a standardtionary and now includes a thesaurus, a rhyme guide, phrase books, language statistics and extensive appendices. We

m to include not only the definition of a word, but also enough information to really understand it. Thus etymologies,

onunciations, sample quotations, synonyms, antonyms and translations are included.

ktionary is a wiki, which means that you can edit it, and all the content is dual-licensed under both the Creative

mmons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License as well as the GNU Free Documentation License. Before you

ntribute, you may wish to read through some of our Help pages, and bear in mind that we do things quite differently

m other wikis. In particular, we have strict layout conventions and inclusion criteria. Learn how to start a page, how to

t entries, experiment in the sandbox and visit our Community Portal to see how you can participate in the development

Wiktionary.

e have created 3,401,275 articles since starting in December, 2002, and were growing rapidly.

diting Wiktionary

ople like yourself are very active in building this project. While you are reading this, it is likely someone is editing one

our entries. Many knowledgeable people are already at work, but everybody is welcome!

ntributing does not require logging in (//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&type=signup), but we

uld prefer that you do, as it facilitates the administration of this site. (Note that logging in also prevents the IP addressyour computer from being displayed in the page history (//en.wiktionary.org

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u can dive in right now and add or alter a definition, add example sentences, or help us to properly format or categorize

tries. You can even create a page for a term were missing. Please feel free to be bold in editing pages!

w could allowing everyone to edit produce a high-quality product instead of total disorder? Because most people want

help, and keeping it open to everyone creates the potential for making many good and ever-improving entries. Records

kept of all changes, so even unhelpful edits can easily be reverted by other users. To use a now-famous catchphrase, in

ence: Given enough eyeballs, all errors are shallow.

start out, users might want to use the Recent changes or Random page link (found in the navigation box elsewhere

this page), to get an idea of the kinds of pages you can find here. (It might be surprising how many non-English words

e entered here!)

orms and etiquette

See alsoHelp:Interacting with humans

e important thing you should know is that we have borrowed from our sister project Wikipedia some cultural norms you

ould respect:

We try not to argue pointlessly. This isnt a debate forum. After civilized and reasonable discussion, we try to reach

broad consensus in order to present an accurate, neutral summary of all relevant facts for future readers.

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We try to make the entries as unbiased as we can, meaning that definitions or descriptions even of controversial

topics are not meant to be platforms for preaching of any kind.

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Bear in mind this is a dictionary, which means there are many things it is not.3.

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At any point, if you are uncomfortable changing someone elses work, and you want to add a thought (or question or

comment) about an entry or other page, the place is its talk page (click on the "discussion" tab at the top or the

"Discuss this page" link in the sidebar or elsewhere, depending on your preference skin). Note, though, that we try

to keep discussion focused on improving this dictionary.

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wever, there are also some differences between Wikipedia and Wiktionary. If you already have some experience with

ting Wikipedia, then you may find our guide to Wikipedia users useful as a quick introduction.

or more information

ore introductory information and descriptions of community norms are on the following pages:

How to start a page

How to edit a page

Staying cool when editing gets hot

Wiktionary FAQ

Wiktionary for Wikipedians

r more policy and style guidelines or guidance, see our Community Portal or Help:Contents.

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