Wiktionary

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Wiktionary is a Wikimedia Foundation project intended to be a free wiki dictionary [(hence: Wiktionary)] (including thesaurus and lexicon) in every language. It is a [Sister projectssister project] to Wikipedia. It is located at [wiktionary.org].

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Contents

• 1 Mission
• 2 History
• 3 Multilingualism
• 4 Comparison to other sister projects
• 5 WikiSaurus
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Mission

Wiktionary serves to:

• Explain the meanings of words, multi-word terms, idiomatic phrases, and abbreviations.
• Act as a thesaurus by showing synonyms and related terms.
• Explain etymologies of words.
• Translate words from one language to another.

History

Growth of the largest eight wiktionaries.

Wiktionary was brought online on December 12, 2002 following a proposal by Daniel Alston. On March 29, 2004 the first non-English Wiktionaries were initiated in French and Polish. Wiktionaries in numerous other languages have since been started. Wiktionary was hosted on a temporary URL (wiktionary.wikipedia.org) until May 1, 2004 when it switched to the current full URL.Wiktionary's current URL is [www.wiktionary.org]. As of May 2006, the English Wiktionary has more than 140,000 entries, although in early 2006 it was surpassed by the French Wiktionary, which now has more than 175,000 entries. More than a dozen languages now have Wiktionaries containing at least 10,000 entries.

Top Ten Wiktionaries

Wiktionary

No.	Language	Language (local)	Wiki	Good	Total	Edits	Admins	Users	Images	Updated
1	[[w:French language>French]]	[[w:French language>Français]]	[fr]	[193102]	218151	[1049861]	[10]	[1908]	[15]	2006-06-17 18:11:41
2	[[w:English language>English]]	[[w:English language>English]]	[en]	[151513]	254592	[1036319]	[38]	[15234]	[409]	2006-06-17 18:11:42
3	[[w:Chinese language>Chinese]]	[[w:Chinese language>中文]]	[zh]	[90598]	105086	[293704]	[6]	[1160]	[107]	2006-06-17 18:11:49
4	[[w:Ido language>Ido]]	[[w:Ido language>Ido]]	[io]	[57409]	93869	[185938]	[1]	[61]	[3]	2006-06-17 18:11:48
5	[[w:Polish language>Polish]]	[[w:Polish language>Polski]]	[pl]	[41975]	83039	[234285]	[11]	[739]	[106]	2006-06-17 18:11:42
6	[[w:Italian language>Italian]]	[[w:Italian language>Italiano]]	[it]	[40930]	47561	[137446]	[6]	[748]	[105]	2006-06-17 18:11:43
7	[[w:Greek language>Greek]]	[[w:Greek language>Ελληνικά]]	[el]	[31171]	40876	[65644]	[3]	[105]	[11]	2006-06-17 18:12:16
8	[[w:Hungarian language>Hungarian]]	[[w:Hungarian language>Magyar]]	[hu]	[25182]	37803	[92598]	[2]	[276]	[35]	2006-06-17 18:12:09
9	[[w:German language>German]]	[[w:German language>Deutsch]]	[de]	[24940]	37419	[297623]	[13]	[4057]	[22]	2006-06-17 18:11:56
10	[[w:Bulgarian language>Bulgarian]]	[[w:Bulgarian language>Български]]	[bg]	[23933]	893047	[927805]	[4]	[289]	[20]	2006-06-17 18:11:55

Multilingualism

Unlike many dictionaries, which are monolingual or bilingual, Wiktionary is multilingual, meaning that the goal is to define every word from all known languages in every other language, as well as in the original language itself. For example, the English Wiktionary is written in English but accepts entries for words from all languages. The French Wiktionary can also have entries for all those same words, but the entries are written in French.

Comparison to other sister projects

One difference between Wiktionary and Wikipedia is that pages beginning with upper- and lowercase letters can refer to different things. For example, the entries on lowercase "[[wikt: i|i]]" and uppercase "[[wikt: I|I]]" are distinct. All of the existing entries in the English Wiktionary were converted to lowercase automatically in mid-2005; manual intervention was used to move pages to uppercase (or split entries) as necessary. Links from Wikipedia to Wiktionary must be made with care, as it may be relevant to link to a lowercase entry, link to an uppercase entry, link to an entry with diacritics or link to multiple entries.

WikiSaurus

WikiSaurus is a category in the English Wiktionary whose purpose is to serve as a thesaurus, including a thesaurus of slang words.

See [[wiktionary: Help: Creating a WikiSaurus entry|"Creating a WikiSaurus entry"]] for the structure of wikiSaurus entries. An example of a well-formatted entry would be the "[[wiktionary:WikiSaurus:insane]]" page.

References

External links

Look up [[wiktionary:|}}}]] in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• [Wiktionary]
• * [[wikt:Main Page|In English]]
• [[wiktionary: Wiktionary: Multilingual statistics|Wiktionary's Multilingual Statistics]]
• [[meta:Wiktionary|Wikimedia's page on Wiktionary]] (including list of all existing Wiktionaries)
• [The Wiktionary Widget] for the Mac OS X Dashboard which pulls up Wiktionary articles.

[[zh-min-nan: Wiktionary]]

 

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