Swedish preloads.

Hi LA2,

Your question at Wiktionary:Beer parlour#How to grow faster got me thinking.

Are you familiar with preload templates? Do you find them useful? If so — I've just created some custom JavaScript that, whenever I go to create a new entry, automatically presents me with links to pre-load certain templates.

Other custom JavaScript could potentially help with automatable things; like, is a Swedish noun's gender predictable from its form? Is the "stem" (for {{sv-noun-n-zero}} and whatnot) predictable?

A little bit of preparatory work (setting up preload templates, setting up custom JavaScript, etc.) could end up paying off significantly, if you want to create a lot of very similar entries and there's very little that requires explicit human action.

Obviously you'll still need to write the glosses manually, though. :-P

I'm a Unix and Emacs person, used to editing large volumes of source code and text, and have mostly used the cut-and-paste method described by Anatoli, as you can also see from the top of my userpage. Putting preload templates in JavaScript does not make me work any faster than I already do. I can create one entry every 2-3 minutes (20-30 entries per hour) by preloading/pasting the section skeleton and filling out the content manually. The problem I see is that this is not fast enough. I would like to generate main entries by bot (as I already do for form entries), but then I would need some existing dictionary to start from.