Editing Main Page

<div class="slop-hero">
<h1>Welcome to Sloptionary</h1>

<p><strong>The AI-aided dictionary built with LLMs, autocomplete systems, next-token prediction, generated voices, images, video, and other machine-made media for robocentric lexicography.</strong></p>

<p>Sloptionary recruits the machines to accelerate the velocity of ideas. Its mission is to turn robot-assisted language, generated artifacts, and multimodal experiments into definitions, examples, lessons, and other useful tools for human, and perhaps non-human, understanding. We consider human-generated content a placeholder for future robo-generated content; MorDictionary takes the inverse approach.</p>

<p>Sloptionary is the robot-assisted counterpart and mostly-joking rival of <em>[https://mordictionary.org/wiki/Main_Page MorDictionary]</em>. MorDictionary keeps the human word-forge burning, while Sloptionary lets the machines into the lexicographic workshop. The rivalry is playful: robot lexicographers can inspire human lexicographers, and human lexicographers can teach the robots better tricks. Neither we in the robo-camp nor MorDictionary in the anthro-camp support genuine hatred. We do, however, accept playful tribalism, rivalry fun, LARPing crusades, mock raids, and a bit of trash talk.</p>
</div>
== Featured Slop ==

=== Mechanomancy ===
'''Etymology:''' From Greek ''mēchanē'', “machine, device, contrivance,” + ''-mancy'', “divination.”

'''Definition:''' Divination by machine.

'''Expanded Definition:'''  
The practice of consulting mechanical, computational, or artificial systems for answers, predictions, judgments, or guidance.

----

=== Simulacromancy ===
'''Etymology:''' From Latin ''simulacrum'', “likeness, image, imitation, phantom,” + ''-mancy'', “divination.”

'''Definition:''' Divination by imitation.

'''Expanded Definition:'''  
The act of seeking meaning or guidance from a convincing imitation of intelligence, personality, judgment, or understanding.

----

=== Stochasticomancy ===
'''Etymology:''' From Greek ''stochastikos'', “skilled in guessing; conjectural; probabilistic,” + ''-mancy'', “divination.”

'''Definition:''' Divination by probability.

'''Expanded Definition:'''  
The practice of consulting probabilistic outputs as though they were oracles, especially in the context of large language models, which generate responses by sampling from probability distributions over possible tokens.

'''Note:'''  
Technically precise and delightfully arcane. Stochasticomancy captures the strange ritual of asking a machine of probabilities to produce meaning, guidance, or semi-coherent goblin prophecy.

----

=== Autopleromancy ===
'''Etymology:''' From Greek ''autos'', “self,” + ''plēroō'', “to fill, fulfill, or complete,” + ''-mancy'', “divination.”

'''Definition:''' Divination by self-completion.

'''Expanded Definition:'''  
The act of deriving answers, predictions, or apparent insight from a system that completes language from its own internal patterns.

'''Note:'''  
A classical-sounding cousin of “autocomplete-mancy.” It suggests that the oracle does not reveal truth from beyond, but fills the empty space in front of it until the user mistakes completion for revelation.

== What belongs here? ==

Sloptionary collects words, media, and machine-assisted lexical experiments about:

* AI-generated neologisms
* Strange, useful, or amusing autocomplete hallucinations, especially when they can be defined
* AI-generated images made to support dictionary entries
* AI-generated voices, readings, pronunciations, or example sentences
* AI-generated videos embedded with the EmbedVideo extension to illustrate or teach an entry
* Multimodal experiments that help explain a word, phrase, concept, or synthetic meaning
* Dictionary-style entries for text-to-image prompts

== Rival Dictionary ==

Sloptionary is the mostly-joking robocentric counterpart to '''[https://mordictionary.org/wiki/Main_Page MorDictionary]''', the anthropocentric dictionary of human-made neologisms.

'''MorDictionary:''' human-forged words, anthro-camp lexicography, and hand-crafted lexical whatnot.  
'''Sloptionary:''' AI-aided words, machine omens, autocomplete folklore, and computational nonsense.

Explore the rival word-forge:

* [https://mordictionary.org/wiki/Main_Page MorDictionary Wiki]
* [https://github.com/MorDictionary MorDictionary on GitHub]
* [https://mordictionary.blogspot.com/ MorDictionary Blogspot]
* [https://mordictionary.bearblog.dev/ MorDictionary Bear Blog]

== Start Slopping ==

* [[Special:CreatePage|Create a new entry]]
* [[Special:RecentChanges|View recent changes]]
* [[Special:Random|Visit a random slop]]

Consult the [[mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents|Sloppy's Guide to Slopping]] for information on using the Sloppy Software.

== Getting sloppy... ==
* [[mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings|Sloppy Settings Wiki]]
* [[mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ|SloppyWiki FAQ]]
* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ SloppyWiki release mailing list]
* [[mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Localisation#Translation_resources|Localise SloppyWiki for your language]]
* [[mediawikiwiki:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam|Learn how to combat negative slop on your own personal SloppyWiki]]