Wiktionary’sWord of the Day features interesting words, terms, and phrases on theMain Page. For Words of the Day in languages other than English, seeForeign Word of the Day. At present,Sgconlaw (talk •contribs) is in charge of the process, setting dates for the words, and sprinkling the future WOTDs with magic.
Word of the day forNovember 23 | |
| compersionn | |
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| ← yesterday |About Word of the Day •Nominate a word •Leave feedback |tomorrow → | |
Word of the day forNovember 24 | |
| get down to brass tacksv | |
| ← yesterday |About Word of the Day •Nominate a word •Leave feedback |tomorrow → | |
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To have the current Word of the Day delivered fresh to your electronic mailbox daily, subscribe to theWikimedia Daily Article Mailing List. Among other things, you’ll also receive the Quote of the Day fromWikiquote and the Featured Article of the Day fromWikipedia.
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You can also check out the terms that are already in the queue to be a Word of the Day in November and December:
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SeeWiktionary:Word of the day/FAQ.
The first ever Word of the Day wasdog, added14 December 2002, two days after the founding of Wiktionary. Although there were several early attempts to begin a Word of the Day on Wiktionary, the first official WOTD was posted on 10 January 2006 byIamnotanorange.
Considerable opposition to the WOTD was raised, as it was felt that one full year’s supply of terms should be prepared before it appeared on theMain Page. That took over a year to happen.
In 2007, theRSS feed was created, then analternate feed (no longer operational) was later added. In July and August 2007, the WOTD was added to theWikimedia Daily Article Mailing List.
Also in early 2007, the entries started being marked with{{was wotd}} to prevent duplicates, and an alphabetic index (which has since failedRFD) was added.
No voting process currently exists for deciding the terms that get featured as WOTD. The volunteers managing it use a set of criteria to ensure adequate variety for any given month’s batch of WOTDs. For details, please see “Wiktionary:Word of the day/Nominations”. Before entries finally make it into the spotlight, they are vetted and tidied up to ensure they are properly formatted and referenced, have suitable quotations, and so on. Only then will they be awesome enough to show to the world!
