Wiktionarian

English

Etymology

    From Wiktionary + -ian.

    Pronunciation

    • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈwɪk.ʃən.ɹi.ən/, /ˈwɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi.ən/
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi.ən/, /ˈwɪk.tʃəˌnɛ.ɹi.ən/
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ɪkʃənɹiən, -ɪkʃənəɹiən, -ɪkʃənɛəɹiən, -ɛəɹiən
    • Hyphenation: Wik‧tion‧a‧rian

    Noun

    Wiktionarian (plural Wiktionarians)

    1. (Wikimedia jargon) A person who contributes to Wiktionary, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the site.
      Hypernyms: dictionarian, dictionarist, lexicographer, lexicographist, Wikimedian < contributor < person
      Coordinate terms: Wikipedian, Wikidatian
      • 2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It, No Starch Press, page 430:
        An outside project called Omegawiki, started by a handful of Wiktionarians, is working on a grand combination of data from Wiktionary into a single dictionary for all languages.
      • 2021 July, Noé Gasparini, Cédric Tarbouriech, Sébastien Gathier, Antoine Bouchez, “Reshaping the Haphazard Folksonomy of the Semantic Domains of the French Wiktionary”, in Electronic lexicography in the 21st century: post-editing lexicography‎[1], Brno, Czech Republic: Lexical Computing CZ, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 May 2025, page 261:
        In 2020, a ‘Wiktionarian in residence’ was recruited to clean up Wiktionnaire’s content to help the integration of this resource.
      • 2025 February 18, Lee Judge, “Elon Musk Is A Dork”, in leejudge‎[2], archived from the original on 18 February 2025:
        (Which reminds me I need to get on Wiktionary ASAP and change the definition of “political cartoonist” to: “Sexual demi-god desired by hot women everywhere including Halle Berry, Dua Lipa and the Young Morgan Fairchild” although, apparently that would make me a Wiktionarian and who wants that crap on their resume?)

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    See also

    • Wiktionary:Wiktionarians