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WikiProject Etymology is a WikiProject aimed at improving Wikipedia's coverage of etymology. The scope of this project includes articles about etymology itself and related topics (e.g. etymology, loanword), articles about the origins of particular words (e.g. List of U.S. state name etymologies, names of the Greeks), and etymology sections within articles on other topics (e.g. Ginkgo biloba#Etymology).
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Members
If you wish to participate in WikiProject Etymology, please add your name to the list below and introduce yourself on the project talk page. You can also add {{User Etymology}} to your user page, and your name will automatically appear on the WikiProject Etymology Members' List.
- Ptcamn (talk · contribs)
- Dbachmann (talk · contribs)
- Miskwito (talk · contribs)
- Mrg3105 (talk · contribs)
- Calypygian (talk · contribs)
- Pmod (talk · contribs)
Open tasks
- Put {{WP Etymology}} on the talk pages of articles within the scope of the project.
- article improvement
- Add etymologies to the articles in Category:Articles with missing etymologies, or improve those in Category:Articles with incomplete etymologies; tend to Category:Stub-Class etymology articles and check Category:Suffixes for missing etymologies.
- help clean up and reference our many frayed lists of etymologies. Help organizing the category structure and the "etymological dictionary" part of Wikipedia into an accessible format.
- accessability and standardization
- help maintaining Portal:Linguistics contributing etymological material.
- develop standard guidelines for etymology sections for WP:MoS (Wikipedia:Guide to layout).
- collaboration with wiktionary: Wiktionary has wikt:Category:Etymology and contains extensive material in the wikt:Appendix: namespace, such as wikt:Appendix:List of Proto-Indo-European roots. Wikipedia needs a portal or navigation aid to facilitate access to this material as well as that on Wikipedia itself.
- Add {{wiktionary}} on articles dealing with specific etymologies. Conversely, link to these articles from wikisource using wikt:Template:Wikipedia.
Current Projects
- At the moment, a number of editors are trying to standardize the etymologies for words ending in -logy. If you want to be involved in this project, please join the discussion on the talk page of -logy.
Articles
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Articles needing attention
Please feel free to list here whole articles or sections of articles where the treatment of etymology requires particular attention.
New articles
Please feel free to list newly created etymology-related articles here (newest at the top). Interesting or unusual etymologies can be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page; see Template talk:Did you know.
- Has anyone seen the Classical article? It was a disambiguation page but I've beefed it up a bit and it now attempts to cover the etymology of the word and explain how the different meanings of the word are related. Maybe you could say it is being etymological about its disambiguation. Yaris678 (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Template
WikiProject Etymology Template
The template {{WP Etymology}} should be placed on the talk page of articles to mark them as within the scope of the project:
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Instructions:
- {{WP Etymology|section=yes}} is used if the article is not primarily devoted to an etymological topic, but contains (or should contain) a section discussing an etymology.
- {{WP Etymology|class= }} is used differently depending on whether the entire article is within the scope of the project, or just a section:
- If the entire article is within the scope of the project, use |class=FA/A/GA/B/Start/Stub/NA, just like other WikiProjects.
- If |section=yes, then the section can be rated as |class=missing (the article doesn't give an etymology, but should), |class=incomplete (an etymology is given, but is unreferenced, or only one etymology is given when there are multiple possibilities), or |class=good.
- {{WP Etymology|priority= }} functions differently from other WikiProjects (it's based on To do, by priority). The |priority= is a number from 1 to 9 based on how many other articles link to the article, which can be found by clicking "What links here". The number is then:
- 1 for articles with more than 500 references to them (i.e. more than 10 pages of links in the "What links here" page)
- 2 for more than 250 references or more than 5 pages of links in the "What links here" page
- 3 for more than 100 references or more than 2 pages of links in the "What links here" page
- 4 for more than 50 references or more than 1 page of links in the "What links here" page
- 5 for more than 20 references
- 6 for more than 10 references
- 7 for more than 5 references
- 8 for more than 2 references
- 9 for articles with 1 or 2 references
User Template
The template {{User Etymology}} can be placed on the user pages of members of the project.
Categories
Articles about a particular word's etymology should be placed in Category:Etymologies or one of its subcategories.
Articles dealing with the field of etymology itself belong in Category:Etymology
Resources
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition (2000) is available online at Bartleby.com (unfortunately, as of mid-2009, searches here yield only the AHD entry word, not the full definition).
- Julius Pokorny's Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (1959) and other Indo-European etymological resources are available online at www.indoeuropean.nl.
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- Dictionary.com, whose entries are based on the 2006 edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, has etymologies for most English words.
- The Tower of Babel has a number of etymological databases compiled by Sergei Starostin and others, but note that many are not widely accepted.
