Wiktionary talk:Christmas Competition 2017

In Game 1, the three intermediate words "(njielai, njielaide, njielaidet)" do not exist on this wiki (only on the French one). So I have started a new chain. SemperBlotto (talk) 15:59, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

The rules simply state that every word in the chain "must have a Wiktionary entry", which, as you pointed out, is true of all three of those words. Also, none of the four subsequent word chain extensions are correct. "Iellato" repeats the last two letters of "Shèngdànjié" and the other three leave unused letters from the interposing word. --Quesotiotyo (talk) 03:09, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

• SB was right. It's the last three letters that count. Sorry for not noticing it before! --Lirafafrod (talk) 19:37, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Well, that was an epic fail on my part. I've withdrawn my submission and I apologize for getting the competition started off on the wrong foot. --Quesotiotyo (talk) 20:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

No worries. Thanks for playing! --Lirafafrod (talk) 21:01, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

OK, so everyone else screwed up too. lol! I restarted it. --Lirafafrod (talk) 21:09, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

I have to admit, that this December tradition is pretty fun. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 00:26, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

UPDATE: I didn't know of any rule like one concerning a period of time. --Lo Ximiendo (talk) 00:46, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

Module-izing

It might make checking easier if we used a template, and a module checked that the words followed the rules. Not sure how complex it would be to program, though. — Eru·tuon 07:12, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Created a function in Module:sandbox. It seems to work. — Eru·tuon 08:10, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

• It's awesome! Nearly as awesome as the Scrabble board someone made by User:kc_kennylau back in 2014 --Gente como tú (talk) 17:19, 16 December 2017 (UTC)

Points are now counted by Module:games. — Eru·tuon 03:38, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

• Nloveladyallen: 785
• Erutuon: 580
• DTLHS: 435
• SemperBlotto: 395
• Wonderfool: 315
• BigDom: 305
• AryamanA: 275
• Justinrleung: 210
• Alexschmidt711: 205
• Suzukaze-c: 70
• Amgine: 40
• Lo Ximiendo: 10

Nice! (Especially the part where I'm winning ;) ) Though note that the early entries aren't being counted since they weren't using the template. Nloveladyallen (talk) 11:40, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll put it on the page --Gente como tú (talk) 11:57, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

@Nloveladyallen: Actually, I think it is able to count the early entries along with the ones using the template. 😉 (Edit: See Wiktionary talk:Christmas Competition 2017/game data for the list of game entries that the module works from when it counts points.) — Eru·tuon 21:53, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

(In case anyone is wondering, the counter automatically skips over any incorrect entries with the |ignore rules= parameter.) — Eru·tuon 04:19, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

aⁿ-lō͘??

Should this be considered to end in -nlo (as the module currently has it), or -alo (because the ⁿ modifies the a) ??? Alexschmidt711 (talk) 14:51, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

@Alexschmidt711: I admit I came up with converting superscripts and subscripts to regular letters specifically because it would allow someone to use a word in Peh-oe-ji. I think the module should only care that that the character ⁿ looks like the basic Latin letter n, not how the character is used (in this case) to indicate nasalization of the preceding vowel character. — Eru·tuon 18:32, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

As Gamesmaster, I declare that it ends in -nlo. --Gente como tú (talk) 21:30, 21 December 2017 (UTC)