On #Wiktionary, every so often one accidentally drops into a word which has multiple language groups where it means the same thing.
Even more rarely (and delightfully) are discoveries where a single word has the same meaning *across* two or more language groups.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mai
* my
* mother/mom
* water
* May (Gregorian calendar month)
* come, hither (toward the speaker)
* never/ever
What do those terms mean, in practical examples?
E.g. #Wiktionary uses left-wing to define (political) left. Left-wing is defined as:
"Of political ideologies: favoring political, social, and economic equality." https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/left-wing
'Far' left is the most 'radical' part of the left wing, radical being 'fundamental change'. Extreme is not a political qualifier.
Supporting fundamental change toward political, social, and economic #equality sounds pretty good, to me.
#wiktionary has a page just for cat translations
@OvertonDoors @wikipedia Whilst I'm not knowledgeable on Latin (apart from that West Wing scene), But I suspect the Latin #wiktionary community would be able to assist!
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I've just created an entry for "teach-out" in the English #Wiktionary, and there's a personal reason for it...
I published #muttum a wordle like game for #GNOME and #UbuntuTouch
The end of game screen displays the solution with a link to #Wiktionary and the playable word list is not filtered/censored.
So there's a risk the game contain a link to an article of Wiktionary which contains violent content or explicit image.
That's why I published the game with a content rate as violent / explicit.
I'm not sure about the content rate I should set for such situation. What do you think ?
... And that's also why I added the word "self-discrepancy", which I encountered in the same book, to the English #Wiktionary.
This doesn't mean that I actually remember every single thing that I ever wrote on Wikipedia and Wiktionary. I remember quite a lot of them, but certainly not everything. But I'll know where to find it! (Unless someone decides that it's "non-notable" or "unreferenced" or something, but I have solutions for that, too.)
Jessica McCabe, "How to ADHD".
She's a YouTuber, not a scientist, although she did consult with scientists for writing the book.
With that caveat aside, this is a frighteningly good description of how and why I edit @wikipedia, @wikidata, #Wiktionary, and all those other wikis (and why I write blog and Fediverse posts).
So yes, #ADHD may be a good explanation for the motivation to do it, but the result of the work is useful to all people, I would hope?..
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