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Hi, I'm -sche ({{IPA|[ʃeɪ]}}, like [[shea|the tree]]). I keep a [[User:-sche/exceptional|Hall of Fame and Hall of Shame]] containing what I see as the best and worst things on Wiktionary.

I tend RFV from time to time, create entries for the names of the languages Wiktionary includes{{,}} and work to ensure Wiktionary calls each language by its most common distinct English name. As I work with language codes to do so, I overhauled ''[[wt:Languages]]'', ''[[wt:Families]]'' and ''[[wt:Dialects]]'' to better document Wiktionary's language-code-naming system. In the past, I also worked to [[User:-sche/Adjectives draft|update]] [[wt:English adjectives]]. 

My more recent efforts have been to clarify Wiktionary's treatment of Low German ({{temp|nds}}, {{temp|nds-de}}, {{temp|nds-nl}}) and to catch instances of {{temp|nds}} which should be {{temp|gml}}; I give [[User:-sche/Low German|my thoughts Low German and an index of past discussions ''here'']]. I also work to ensure {{temp|pdc}} entries are indeed High German and {{temp|pdt}} entries are indeed Low German rather than vice versa{{,}} and to clarify the situation of the Low German dialect "East Frisian" [[gegenüber]] its cousin the language "East Frisian", sorting out {{temp|frs}} and {{temp|stq}} along the way.

Once that's done, I may resume working on my comprehensive [[User:-sche/English terms of Native American origin|list of English terms of Native American origin]] and might even revive my [[User:-sche/German terms of Native American origin|list of German terms of Native American origin]].

Small projects of mine include [[User:-sche/Eponyms/Adjectives|listing adjectives derived from personal names]], [[User:-sche/river city|listing river-related compound nicknames for cities]] and [[User:-sche/Rivers/Adjectives|river-name adjectives]]{{,}} and [[User:-sche/Namibian German|working on Namibian German]].

Large projects on my to-do list include updating the dismally out-of-date [[Wiktionary:Style guide]], updating [[Wiktionary:Entry layout explained]], and improving the relationship of those two pages to each other. (Oh, and sooner or later [[User:-sche/missing codes|these codes]] all need to be created or moved to a Wiktionary:-namespace record of which codes have been intentionally excluded.)

([[User:-sche/]])

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==== cleanup ====

:'''More cleanup tasks and things to do [[User:-sche/RFV|are listed ''here'']].'''
:* Fix the orthography of the Low German in [[[[köök]]]], verify everything about [[[[fördern]]]], clean up / RFV [[mura]] and [[schwerpunkt#English]], add US pronunciation info to [[Anatolian]] and [[Palaic]], sort out the legal meanings of [[approver]] and [[approvement]], and clean up [[Gesicht]]. Clean up [[content]] and [[contents]].
:* Go through everything in the WT namespace, cross-linking when appropriate and RFDing empty pages.
:* Lowercase uses of [[Template:nds-noun]] should mostly be nds-nl, uppercase should mostly be [[Template:nds-de-noun]].
:* Most pages which use [[Template:en-initialism]] are actually nouns or verbs or adjectives complete with inflected forms, which should thus use POS templates, like [[CD]].
:* Many Hungarian templates indicate that a form is not used by displaying ''and linking to'' a hyphen; they shouldn't link to it.
:* The things in [[:Category:English noun forms]] should be in [[:Category:English plurals]].
:: Delete RFT tags from the tagged-but-not-listed entries in [[:Category:Tea room]].
:: Figure out how much of [[:Category:Scottish English]] is Scots.
:: Add {{temp|transterm}} to [[hourwise]], [[lambent]].
:: Check back on [[Talk:Inuit]], [[Talk:subaudi]], [[Talk:hospitalize]]; [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3ABeer_parlour&diff=16701334&oldid=16700894], [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Beer_parlour&oldid=18850098#Pages_getting_too_big.3F]; [[Talk:jewbush]]. [[Talk:쫓다]]. [[Talk:батыргъэгъ]], [[Talk:бгъуитӀуӀу]]. [[бгъунджырыкӀу]], [[бгъурышӀ]]. [[Template talk:obsolete name of]]. + [[Talk:ашӀу]], [[хъэдз]], [[Talk:енэцӀын]], [[Wiktionary:Beer parlour/2013/January#Standards_of_Identity]], [[Talk:engkau]], [[gypsycraft]], [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3AFeedback&diff=23395366&oldid=23395061 this] [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3AFeedback&diff=23635759&oldid=23631773 Abenaki] effort (now at [[Category talk:Abenaki language]]).

:: Work to clarify CFI of place names (Ottawa, Louvre), brand names (especially of not-obviously-physical products) (still?) and phrasebook entries (like [[this one]]). There is wide support to change the following sections of CFI, but a vote has yet to be proposed: Idiomaticity, Natural Languages, possibly Constructed Languages, ''(Brand Names), Names of Specific Entities''. 
:: [[Appendix:English pronunciation]] <s>(and [[WT:English pronunciation key]], which redirects to it) and [[Appendix:IPA chart for English]] can probably be consolidated</s>. There's also [[Appendix:IPA characters]], [[Wiktionary:IPA]]/[[Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet]], [[Wiktionary:IPA pronunciation key]] and [[WT:PRON]]/[[Wiktionary:Pronunciation]].

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: [[:Category:Categories needing attention]], [[Special:AbuseLog]], [[:Category:Pages with broken file links]], [[:Category:Languages needing langrev]], [[:Category:Entries with non-standard headers]], [[:Category:Entries which need Greek script]], [[:Category:Pages with script errors]].
: [[Template:languageshift]] (add e.g. American Sign Language to it so it doesn't expect the category"[[:Category:American Sign Language language]]")

:'''For deleting many entries quickly,''' there's [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User:-sche/common.js&oldid=16458170 this js] from [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Ruakh&oldid=16458074#Help_deleting_some_redirects Ruakh].
:To filter out non-Irish hits in searches, there's [[[[bhfuil]]]]. To filter out non-Welsh hits, include [[[[wrth]]]] in the search.
:Misc: [[MediaWiki:Gadget-PatrollingEnhancements.js]], {{temp|inuse|s=s}}, [//fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/yellow?match=en fr.match], [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary:Information_desk&oldid=17311556#h.C3.A1.C4.8Dek_and_other_self-using_symbols], [//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3ABeer_parlour%2F2013%2FApril&diff=20125294&oldid=20125259 mediawiki messages]

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==== interesting words ====
;pre-November 2012
: [[destinating]], [[latrate]], [[akkautua]], ''[[hoaky]]'', ''[[destinate]]'', [[ashlar]], ''[[fakon]]'', [[prosopopesis]], ''[[lect]]'', ''[[begarlanded]]'', ''[[blanketly]]'', [[sexuation]], ''[[unpacking]]'', ''[[compensatory lengthening]]'', ''[[compensatorily lengthen]]'', ''[[jebel]]'', [[pilkunnussija]], [[flense]], ''[[Citations:cafe'|cafe']]'' <small>([[Citations:caffe']])</small>, ''[[double modal]]'', ''[[stacked modal]]'', ''[[modal stacking]]'' (''[[might could]]'', ''[[might should]]''), [[betwattled]], [[single-hearted]], [[arete]], [[gewiss]], ''[[ne en unu tago elkreskis Kartago]]'', ''[//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Agrilus&direction=prev&oldid=13881872 Agrilus]'', ''[//en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=abst%C3%A8me&oldid=15353975 abstème]'', [[:de:lauter]], [[friderizianisch]]/[[Frederician]], [[mango#Verb]], [[dorveille]]; [[medize]] ([[Medize]], [[Medise]], [[medise]]), die [[Zäsur]], [[aestuous]], [[essorant]], [[élisabéthain]], [[terpsichorean]], [[chambrer]], [[von dannen]], [[von hinnen]], [[uberty]], [[mash]], [[hoyden]], [[Serkland]], [[vagabondage]], [[marcescence]], [[marcescent]], [[mirific]], [[vocable]], [[aprosdoketon]], [[running dog]], [[manqué]], [[squantum]], [[belligerati]], [[cliterati]], [[natatorium]], [[wantok]], [[patteran]], [[lawn]] (clothing), [[age-mate]], [[algedonic]], [[reechy]], [[hoplochrism]], [[ǀxâã]], [[dtʻkxʻàba]], [[ǂkxʻái]], [[ǂàã]], [[uxorilocal]]/[[matrilocal]], [[virilocal]]/[[patrilocal]], [[peri]] (including the missing sense of "beautiful person"), [[antilogy]], [[tergiversation]], [[gunge]], [[viande]], [[kétségbeesés]], [[gülünçleşmek]], [[ambilevous]], [[hołpander]], [[misocapnist]]

;post-November 2012
: [[dehisce]]/[[indehiscent]]/etc, [[teaghlach]], [[intrasexual]], [[marl]], {{term||ahahci|to touch the body of (a pregnant or sick woman) to ascertain wellness”, “to caress (a person), to touch repeatedly”, “to pet (an animal)|lang=nci}}, [[piemirst]], [[aizmirsība]], [[aizmārša]], [[flaneur]], [[backfisch]]/[[Backfisch]], [[kapulakieli]] (lit. "cudgel language", but meaning "obscure jargon"), [[knawvshawl]], [[jargonium]], [[euonym]], [[suffrutescent]], [[steckbrieflich]], [[Lethean]], [[зэуэн|зэзэуэгъагъэх]] (probably unattested), [[hen#Swedish|hen]], [[fortochka]], [[arboresco]]/[[arboresce]], [[Sasha]], [[Anya]], [[interstice]], [[syncretic]], [[suppletive]], [[raging agreement]], [[xłp̓x̣ʷłtłpłłskʷc̓]], [[mitverantwortlich]] vs [[eigenverantwortlich]], [[amok#Noun]], [[galactagogue]], [[jill of all trades]], [[als U-Boot]], [[genderfuck]]ed, [[multiproblematic]], [[criterial]], [[fisseln]], [[louche]], [[cicatrix]], [[neuralgisch]], [[short]] (of pastry: brittle), [[anderweitig]], [[clepsydra]], [[fremdschämen]]/[[Fremdscham]], [[Naktivist]], [[capacious]], [[momentane]], [[invaginate]], [[misprision]], [[sconvenire]], [[culture vulture]]

;post-April 2013
: [[daddock]], [[a-tok-á]], various mining [[damp]]s, [[pitmatic]], [[farrier]], [[jubarb]], [[amnicolist]], [[gallowglass]], [[venefice]]/[[veneficial]], [[hasp]], [[oakum]], [[peripatetic]], [[bake]] ("cook using heat" or "harden using cold"), [[grouty]] (needs citations), [[traluire]], [[pulverulent]], [[bilderstürmerisch]], [[velleity]], [[futbolísticamente]], [[chleuh]], [[preterist]]

: [[house door]], [[glass door]], [[house wall]]

: Words with ancient [[User:-sche/inscriptions|attestations]]: [[User:-sche/ek|ek]]/[[ek]]/[[ég]]/[[ᛖᚲ]], [[Heri]], [[du]], [[ᚱᚢᚾᛟ]]/[[rún]], [[ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ]]. See also ''[[Walloon]]''.

: [[User:-sche/wanted]]

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