Wiktionary: Free online dictionary that anyone can edit
Wiktionary is a wiki-based project to develop a multilingual online dictionary, or a group of meanings for words, in the form of a wiki.
There are many languages of Wiktionary. Wiktionary is also a thesaurus. Wiktionary is run by the Wiki Foundation, which also runs Wiki. The English Wiktionary currently has over 7.3 million pages and 4.0 million users. Much like Wikipedia, the Wiktionary is run in several different languages that can be selected from its main page. These include the Simple English Wiktionary.
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Type of site | Online dictionary |
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| Available in | Multilingual |
| Owner | Wiki Foundation |
| Created by | Jimmy Wales and the Wiki community |
| URL | wiktionary |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | December 12, 2002 |
| Current status | active |
Logo
In 2006, there was a vote for the change of the logo of Wiktionary. The original logo of only words was replaced. However, there were very few people who voted in this contest. Therefore, smaller wikis used the newer logo but the English Wiktionary stayed with the same logo.
In 2009, there was a second contest for a newer logo (pictured). This was a step to make all the Wiktionaries to have the same logo on all projects. However, the English Wiktionary still did not use the new logo. The Simple English Wiktionary voted on the new logo on November 30, 2010 and the community decided the new logo to use it as their logo. However, no changes were made to the logo and the discussion was thus forgotten.
Sources
Other websites
- Simple English Wiktionary main page
- English Wiktionary main page
- Simple English Wiktionary mobile version
- English Wiktionary mobile
- List of Wiktionaries by language family
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Wiktionary, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
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