Who vouches for this

A dictionary is worth whatever the people behind it are worth. Here is who they are, and how an entry is judged ready.

Who makes it

Diccionario Panamá is currently run by one person, Panamanian, in Panama. The definitions are not copied from anyone: they are written from scratch, from how people actually speak, and an editor signs off on each one before it stops being a draft. Entries are signed by role rather than by name while the team is one person; the record of who approved what exists, and it will be made public once there are more editors.

How an entry gets approved

Draft

Generated and not yet reviewed. The entry says so on its own page.130 / 301

Verified

An editor read it, corrected it if needed, and vouched for it.171 / 301

Expert-reviewed

Backed by two different people, or by a specialist in the field.0 / 301

Some entries are also held back: they are flagged for specialist review and do not leave draft until a specialist signs off. Right now that is 20.

Where none of this comes from

Nothing is copied from Revilla, Isaza, the DEPA or the Diccionario de americanismos: they are under copyright and serve to cross-check, not to transcribe. Nor from Wiktionary or Wikipedia, whose licence would contaminate the corpus. Song lyrics are described and cited, never transcribed.

Spotted something wrong?

Write to us. A wrong definition gets fixed; what cannot be fixed is publishing one you know is wrong. hola@diccionariopanama.com