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Wiktionary:List of Wiktionarians by number of changes

Page is broken. With its weekly edit last week, a bot hid the list. He then failed to make the weekly edit on the 28th. Please fix Purplebackpack89 (talk) 06:14, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

It did that globally. I was in #cvn-sw and it did that to many wikis including simple.wikipedia. πr² (talk • changes) 21:37, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

Do you think that's a glitch? Not sure why it'd blank all those pages... Orashmatash (talk) 19:06, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

Whatever it is, it needs to get fixed Purplebackpack89 (talk) 22:51, 1 December 2011 (UTC)

I'll try Meta and see if someone's already brought it up. Orashmatash (talk) 14:34, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Still broken Purplebackpack89 (talk) 14:48, 12 December 2011 (UTC)

See w:WP:Simple talk/Archive 96#Strange bot behaviour. Malfunction? for the answer. --Orashmatash (talk) 19:40, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

This page has recently been re-enabled. --Hydriz (talk) 13:22, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

Kneeled

What should we do about the word "kneeled". It's another form of the past tense of "kneel", listed on dictionary.com and EN Wiktionary. How should we place it here? Tofutwitch11 (talk) 18:25, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Articles from the Simple English Wikipedia

I just noticed, going through some articles this evening, that there are a few articles which could be used as Wiktionary entries here. I was just wondering whether anyone would like to check them out. Regards, Yottie (talk) 00:53, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Long time ago, I imported many articles from that category... but haven't done this for quite some time and should do it again. -Barras (talk) 11:17, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

Cool, good to know about this. I will try to import a few every so often. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 00:55, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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Our tools are broken

Hey, I think what happened is Soxred withdrew sponsership of his bots that track edit count pies, article creations, etc. At English Wikipedia, they've solved this by having someone else sponser the tools. Should we do the same here? Purplebackpack89 (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Just change the part of the URL which says "~soxred93" (or whatever) to "~tparis" since he has taken them over. The Toolserver is for all wikis, nothing has to be changed locally except the URL. -Orashmatash (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

If you've any specific pages that need updating, which you can't edit, just let me know and I get this changed. -Barras talk 21:36, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Anchors

There's a discussion on w:Talk:Streptococcal pharyngitis about the benefits of having anchors to specific definitions on a single page. The template w:Template:Anchor can be used for this purpose, or alternatively the actual Html <span id=NAME></span> as I've done on irritate (though the template is less messy). Would this be particularly problematic? Osiris (talk) 07:38, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

anywayS

Is anyways an actual word?

fall through the cracks

Please look at the verb template at fall through the cracks.

I don't know how to handle this better. --Horeki (talk) 20:33, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

bicep / biceps

The entries for bicep and biceps are incorrect. Both the singular and plural is biceps. The form bicep is a recent incorrect innovation by people who assume the final "-s" is for the plural. It isn't. The word comes from a Latin adjective that ends in "-s" in the singular. --EncycloPetey (talk) 02:14, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Fixed now hopefully. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 17:42, 12 May 2012 (UTC)