Wikipedia:WikiProject Melanesia/Tok Pisin/Wiktionary

Tok Pisin Wiktionary
This sub-page is created for discussions regarding the Tok Pisin Wiktionary. Please don't be put off by the suggested organization below. The resulting TOC will make it a bit easier to locate discussions of specific interest as the page grows in length. Please keep in mind that the organization below is only suggested, not locked in concrete. The intention is to keep focused on the reorganization and revitalization of the TPI Wiktionary. K. Kellogg-Smith 14:52, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

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I've set up subpage Main page/sandbox in the TPI Wiktionary for testing ideas for a new main page for the Wiktionary. The idea behind the page I've designed takes into consideration the absolutely unique position of Tok Pisin as being the lingua franca in the non-urban, rural areas of PNG and Melanesia where diverse local family/tribal/regional languages (tok ples) are in paralell use. While there has been extensive studies published of the PNG languages about the various language families and their inter-relationships, the number of related dictionaries extant is small. The Tok Pisin Wiktionary, to my way of thinking, provides a mechanism to start collecting some of the diverse PNG vocabularies under one accessible on-line roof, so to speak. Earlier this month User:Ptcamn entered a series of definitions for Japanese words in the Wiktionary, with the page titles in Kanji characters. I renamed one of the pages (the Japanese word for "eye") to romanize the article's title, then proceeded to expand the definition to create a quasi-standard definition format (loosely based on the English Wiktionary definition format). I posted a note on the user's talk page cautioning him/her about not using Kanji in definition title, and some comments on my rearrangement of his/her definition of me. It would be helpful if those of you who are interested in development of the TPI Wiktionary would enter the word me in the Wiki's sidebar's search box, and take a look at the word and its definition format. Any suggestions you might have for additions/changes can be entered here and/or on the definition's talk page. Thanks/best regards, K. Kellogg-Smith 13:21, 19 July 2007 (UTC)