Wiktionary talk:Votes/pl-2016-02/Trivia

I'm not even a fan of having "Trivia" sections... - -sche (discuss) 05:48, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

I'm unsure. Depends on the data; has anyone tried to assess what Trivia sections generally contain? —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 06:00, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

You can search for "==trivia==" in the search box. It's virtually always stuff about patterns of letters, e.g. hazardous is one of four common words ending in -dous; zyxt is the last word in the OED; watchstrap has six consonants in a row. I find it quite arbitrary and useless (though I support anagrams, which do not require trivia sections). In the very long term I think our search ought to support regular expressions (or something similar) so that anyone who wants to check letter patterns can do so, without clogging up the entries. Equinox ◑ 06:04, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

@Equinox Actually, regular expressions are possible. mw:Help:CirrusSearch#insource: —suzukaze (t・c) 07:41, 18 February 2016 (UTC)

@suzukaze-c: You just made me sooooo happy! --WikiTiki89 01:20, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

But I agree with -sche that we shouldn't have ===Trivia=== sections at all. --WikiTiki89 01:21, 19 February 2016 (UTC)