Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a
free wiki dictionary (thesaurus, lexicon therein) in every
language. Following through with Daniel Alston's idea, it was set up on December
12, 2002. On March 29, 2004 the first multilingual Wiktionaries were developed in French (http://fr.wiktionary.org) and Polish (http://pl.wiktionary.org). Other languages
have been developed, and more are continually being developed. Wiktionary was hosted on a temporary URL until May 1, 2004 when it switched to
the current full URL. The English Wiktionary has more than 50,000 entries, with the 50,000th entry being created on November 24, 2004.
Unlike many dictionaries, which are monolingual or bilingual, Wiktionary is a multilingual and international dictionary,
meaning that the goal is to cover every word from all known languages.
Also See
Wiktionary:Multilingual Statistics
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