Type of site | Online dictionary |
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Available in | Multilingual |
Owner | Wikimedia Foundation |
Created by | Jimmy Wales and the Wikimedia community |
URL | wiktionary |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | December 12, 2002 |
Current status | active |
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 Wikimedia Foundation, which also runs Wikipedia. The English Wiktionary currently has over 7.3 million pages and 4.0 million users.[1] 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.