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  1. Bring back the wordfall. Plz. Plz, Plz.

    Get rid of the bad Googly "I Feel Lucky" imitation.

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  2. Personal Wordnik page

    Allow logged in users to create a personal Wordnik page with the information elements that are desired most for their needs. I love what you are doing with this site!

    31 votes
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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    This is a great idea! We’ll see how soon we can do this (we’d like this ourselves)!

    (and thanks for the kind words about Wordnik!)

  3. List popular/recent searches

    Would be interesting to see a list of the top 10 most popular word searches or recent popular searches. Eventually it would be awesome to do something like http://labs.digg.com/ where you can watch in real-time the searches people are making, etc.

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  4. add a link for a random word to be displayed

    Sort of like on wikipedia where you can get a random page, just a random word.

    26 votes
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  5. provide "white page" type info on this exciting new application

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  6. Show notes on the summary page for a word

    Keep up with the social part of the site by showing the notes on the word on it's summary page, so you don't have to click on the tab.

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  7. Authentication of the user entered content

    User is allowed to enter the meaning of the new words. How can other be sure of the authentication of the word? I think that there should be some authentication mechanism in place so that the quality of the dictionary can be maintained.

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  8. add more languages

    It would be great if you can add additional languages to your offering.
    Having this as a multilingual dictionary can really make me use it :-)

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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    It would be great to have more languages, and we’re all in favor of multilingualism. However, we have a lot of work to do on the English part before we can branch out … but we’ll get there eventually!

  9. make searches case insensitive.

    Searching for Apple yields different results from apple.

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  10. Job Queues

    For people who want to contribute to wordnik, it'd be nice if they could go to a page with words that had very little information on them, so that people could see where wordnik needs more contributions. Possibly on the front page even, showing words that lack love.

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  11. Enable clicking on a word in the definition to browse that word

    This would be particularly useful for similar scientific words, where a more obscure spelling has no definition yet.

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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    That’s a great idea — we’d love to be able to do this. We may make it a more generalizable function in the browser, though.

  12. Add more information to profile pages

    One thing I have noticed is that I don't get to put a lot of personal information under my name. I've been rather obsessed with pronouncing words, and I'd like for people to be able to see that my pronounciation is from a particular area (Australia, specifically). So I'd really like to see personal information fields added to the profile page of people so this information become available to people looking around the site.

    2 votes
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  13. Show interesting stuff on the front page

    Maybe link to interesting words or have list of most searched words right on the front page. Right now in order to see what wordnik does, people have to think about a word they want to search for first. Make it really easy to see what it does right when people get to the site.

    6 votes
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  14. Make etymologies more accessable

    I love etymologies. I'm not a complete language geek, but I do appreciate the clarification they can provide in understanding how words came to mean what they do. I think everyone can benefit by studying etymologies. Unfortunately, etymological syntax is gibberish. But perhaps a machine parsable syntax that can be reformatted for better mainstream elucidation and linguistic enrichment?

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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    This is a really good point — most etymologies right now are written for conciseness, not narrative flow. We’ll see what we can do!

  15. Make it possible to read "pages" of your definitions similar to flipping through a dictionary!

    Make it possible to read "pages" of your definitions similar to flipping through a dictionary! that way we can learn some new words we have not heard of.

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  16. images should be linked to senses not entries

    When a lookup of a word occurs you display multiple definition senses and multiple images. Why not allow users to click on specific senses and then specific images to indicate which images go with which senses. An image is specific to a sense, not to a whole entry. Also, an image "suggests" a more detailed description of the word. E.g., I looked up "Ball" and one of the images was of a cat puffed up like a "ball of fur" --I would have liked to contribute to the further specification of why the images were related to various senses for…

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  17. Provide more detailed stats (e.g., geographic distribution), also info on the source of the stats

    The stats display is a little lacking. It's hard to really make anything of it at the size, and it would be nice to get a more complete picture, like showing usage trends by geographic region. It would especially be nice to know at least an overview of how the stats are generated.

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  18. open up an api

    Have an API available for third parties.
    With it, developers will be able to offer desktop clients that access the dictionary, or do other things I haven't thought about at all.

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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    We would like to do this as soon as possible. If you have suggestions for what you would like to see in an API, please email us (feedback AT wordnik DOT com). Thanks!

  19. give the Oxford more 'floorspace'.

    I think the OED deserves a little more weight in this place, that's all. thanks for your consideration.

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  20. remove swearing from Twitter results

    There was a few results had quite a bit of swearing in so they're probably not the best examples of the word usage

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    AdminWordnik (Admin, Wordnik) responded

    We’re planning to offer a filtered/unfiltered view soon. Although a few well-placed obscenities can often make for a very interesting example …

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