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Bring back the wordfall. Plz. Plz, Plz.
Get rid of the bad Googly "I Feel Lucky" imitation.
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use the new idea of splitting a community: different user groups with different needs. Programmers!
Start a 'Programmer's Community' with specialized terms and unique and unusual usages.
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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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Information about regional variation
I'm aware that wordnik is mostly built around American English resources, but I would be very pleased if, under the hood, there are ways of indicating regional variance in meanings, pronunciations, etc. I ask as I'm Australian (and I know plenty of english speakers in other countries), and I'd love for wordnik to represent all Englishes, not just American English.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Word Suggestion.
When a word is entered and if it is misspelled or if it is having different form of the existing word. then there should be a word suggestion like, Do u mean this ....
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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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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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User profile records contributions
Is it possible to have contriburtions made, for example notes on word usage etc., recoeded in one's profile? Currently, after leaving a note on a word, there is no sign that the note has been left at all.
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Looking for this? Wordnik vs. Answers.com
Answers.com still way smarter when suggesting possible words.
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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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Add a section to each word's page showing a word's recent usage in the news
Add a section to each word's page showing a word's recent usage in the news
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