My name is Elita. Pronouns He/She/They. I don't really know why I'm here, I don't know that much about words or grammar or what not, but it still fascinates me and the freedom this site allows for is motivating. Never be hesitant to join a community if you don't know everything about the subject that the community is based around. Just have fun.
I only speak English, but would love to learn any language I can. (Currently learning to speak French.)
I would like to take credit, at least partially, for the trans slang RfV stuff that happened twice over the past year. I created redlinks for these entries on my to-do page and User:Ioaxxere created them and posted about how weird they were on my talk page. I think slang like this, used on social media platforms, is the future of the English language at-large, and should be preserved and noted when found.
2: Need only one if from extinct or dead language.
3: Five displayed per lemma is best, unless they are of exceptional quality; anything beyond five should be put on citations page and seemoreCites template should be used.
4: For citations pages, have timeline for all separate lemmas, and have definitions for all separate lemmas copied from main page.
Wiktionary is a very different place from Wikipedia, of course in their purpose but also in their culture and rules. Wiktionary still embodies a lot of that wild-west vibe that the Internet of old apparently had (I was too young to experience it). On Wikipedia there are a thousand different templates and stylization and citing rules, which is fine I suppose, Wikipedia is trying to be as perfect as it can be. Wiktionary has a much much looser sense of rules, the community hasn't agreed on a lot of things, most importantly to me, what sources are durable and worthy of quotations. And then there's the Wonderfool controversy, which has only recently been agreed upon, something like that whole saga would NEVER occur on the English Wikipedia. I find this place to be even more of a relic than Wikipedia. I only edit in bouts, but I still feel more of an allegiance and admiration for here than for any other Wikimedia venture. We are the stewards of a new generation of language, the logophiles of the future!
With the RfV over the trans slang, Twitter and other internet sites are generally considered reliably archived sources and thus able to be included as quotations. This is the future of this project. Expanding onto the entirety of the internet. There is a lot of crap out there, but there are also wide, infinitely complex and fascinating subcultures out there, just waiting to be written about and their words to be collected. We need to get on this now before more of it is lost (it's getting lost every day), archive and explain for posterity. Push for wider and wider inclusion, create entries for fandom slang, gaming slang, all kinds of super specific slang. It is our goal to collect all the words that mean something to some group, lest they die, they will be remembered here.
