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Wiktionary

The Free Dictionary
Screenshot of wiktionary.org home page
Type of site	Online dictionary
Available in	Multi-lingual (over 170)
Owner	Wikimedia Foundation
Created by	Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia community
URL	www.wiktionary.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional
Launched	December 12, 2002; 21 years ago (2002-12-12)
Current status	active

Wiktionary is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of all words in all languages. It is collaboratively edited via a wiki, and its name is a blend of the words wiki and dictionary. It is available in 173 languages and in Simple English. Like its sister project Wikipedia, Wiktionary is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and is written collaboratively by volunteers, dubbed "Wiktionarians". Its wiki software, MediaWiki, allows almost anyone with access to the website to create and edit entries.

Because Wiktionary is not limited by print space considerations, most of Wiktionary's language editions provide definitions and translations of words from many languages, and some editions offer additional information typically found in thesauri and lexicons. The English Wiktionary includes a Wikisaurus (thesaurus) of synonyms of various words.

Wiktionary data are frequently used in various natural language processing tasks.