Wiktionary is a sister project of Wikipedia and is to something like the Oxford English Dictionary or Merriam-Webster what Wikipedia is to Britannica.

Re: Urban Dictionary: sort of, but the slang is more curated. The inclusion criteria on Wiktionary are pretty lax, and it’s way more descriptivist than prescriptivist. For example, we have the word “hitstun”, which is fighting game jargon you won’t find in a major dictionary.

A major aspect Wiktionary has that other major dictionaries don’t is that it’s an everything-to-English dictionary (or everything-to-whatever-language, e.g. fr.wiktionary.org is an everything-to-French dictionary). So as a very, very extreme example, this is the English Wiktionary entry for ‘no’, which we have entries for in 91 languages. We even keep track of languages like Akkadian, Klingon, Proto-Indo-European, American Sign Language (ASL), and so on. (In total, we have definitions from over 5100 languages.)

It’s also way more flexible than a standard dictionary. For example, the French entry for Sagittarius (“Sagittaire”) has an image of Sagittarius and a ‘See also’ table of every other Zodiac sign in French. We also, of course, often have links back to Wikipedia. Likewise, (like the Oxford English Dictionary) we keep track of etymology, so for example, you can learn that the word “slogan” comes from Scottish Gaelic for “battle cry”. We keep track of rhymes, anagrams, derived terms, etc. too. And definitions will (ideally) also have real quotations so you can see how they’re used in a sentence.

Probably the main lacking aspect right now is the thesaurus, which exists but is undercooked.

TL;DR: Yes, it can replace a normal dictionary and then some. I don’t think it can replace a normal thesaurus yet for most people.

Just want to confirm that Wiktionary is amazing.

Edit: AMA if you’re interested in exploring or contributing to it.

You know, I never really considered automatic anti-vandalism mechanisms we have in place on OpenStreetMap, but they surely exist.

All that to say I think we’re good on OSM too. lol

Scooby Doo! Night of 100 Frights.

of course the marketing speak release note is going to sound like AI marketing speak

Weird. Because I’m not talking about the release note; I’m talking about It’s FOSS’ commentary on the release note. I read LibreOffice’s 26.8 blog post, and as someone who’s written a release blog before, it looks like a human wrote it. You’d think it wouldn’t if “of course it’s going to sound like AI marketing speak”.

Did you read what I wrote that you think I’m talking about the marketing note for LibreOffice 26.8?

As someone with ADHD, I really just hope this post sets an example for use of Grovers as an accessibility feature for shitposts going forward.

Did you not read the It’s FOSS article we’re supposed to be discussing that’s talking about LibreOffice?

Are you objecting to this reading like LLM slop?

I’m confused what you’re confused about. This is a direct quote – formatting and all – from the article. OP stripped out e.g. the emojis when pasting it here.

How ironic, then, that this It’s FOSS article reeks of slop.

🆕 LibreOffice 26.8: What’s New?

There’s no AI in LibreOffice 26.8. Nothing about the suite talks to a remote server, and none of it needs an internet connection to work.

This isn’t an oversight; it’s a promise. TDF says that if your work can’t leave the building for legal or privacy reasons, the only way to prove that later (during an audit, for example) is if the software never gave it anywhere to go.

Anyhow, coming back to the editors. 👇

Absolutely fuck this shit.

Edit: Here’s the blog post from TDF themselves if you don’t just want an AI chewing up and vomiting out what the humans behind LibreOffice wrote.

Dude, come on. Three years is not “many years ago”.

 *F*  *U*  *C*  *K* 

The Grover is 32 x 30 – scaled and then cropped in GIMP.

The power of PubMed compels you!

F U C K

Sorry, I’m sure this is thoughtful and well-written, but the word-to-Grover ratio is way off. I can’t read it.

Not possible until you find all seven of the Sesame Emeralds.

That’s a relief. The original only had one Grover, which I thought wasn’t acceptable for audiences in 2026.

Your town, sanitation? Or was this, again, your being too lazy to change the title when you use a bot to repost from Reddit?

I was referring to how stupid he was for changing the name of an insanely popular household term.

Okay. I un-downvoted, but I think you should consider rewriting, because right now, it reads like you’re calling the new Twitter a Musk grift. That’s not just me; the second-top comment seems to be referring to your comment but politely not mentioning it by name.

As for the grift part, it’s complicated, because on the one hand, it was a bald-faced grift going in where he meant to manipulate the stock market (his repeated attempts to back out prove that). But on the other, having to complete that deal meant he gained control of one of the largest social media networks in the world. And he’s clearly been using that to political ends that are hard to qualify but probably – given the extreme worldwide rise in right-wing authoritarianism – fairly successful.

(Assuming it made a difference getting Trump into office, that $44 billion is probably well paid off through political corruption alone.)

For context for future readers, current comment is just:

“Genius businessman” mmhm. Total grift. Idiot. In any other world he’d be living in a trailer park with trump flags all over his truck, working at Walmart yelling at brown people.

Edit: See comments below

You know, I 100% agree with your assessment of Musk. It’s just that you’re saying this about something that Musk has nothing to do with except actively opposing it. The subheader:

Judge hasn’t ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead

It’s such trivial, basic etiquette to read beyond the headline before commenting on the article you’re supposed to be discussing. I’m really sick of wading through comments by lazy assholes who’ve spent more time vomiting out their gut reaction to the headline than just sitting down and reading for 30 seconds.

Reddit was bad about this, but Lemmy is somehow fucking next-level.

• The headline itself is already clear this isn’t Musk’s. Why would the new Twitter be saying Musk gave up the name if it were run by Musk?
• Even if it wasn’t (it is), the subheader is abundantly clear.
• Ars is a solid, well-written source with a good reputation for not wasting waste your time with churnalism or clickbait.

Just running through some common excuses people who refuse to read use to shift their profound, utter laziness onto anyone but themselves.

Okay, I admit I was wrong and only said those things because I was jealous of your strategic genius. Can you elaborate on your idea to tank the value of TTWO and give leakers unilateral control of the release schedule of Rockstar’s biggest product in 13 years bring these leakers to heel?

I dunno, I see some gold leaf in the one on the left.