Editing Wiktionary (section)

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{{short description|Multilingual online dictionary}}
{{selfref|For the English Wiktionary itself, see [[wikt:|en.wiktionary.org]]. For Wikipedia's guideline about Wiktionary, see [[Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects]].}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2019}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Wiktionary
| logo = WiktionaryEn.svg
| logo_alt = Logo of English Wiktionary, featuring letters from different scripts
| logo_caption = Logo of English Wiktionary
| logo_size = 125px
| screenshot = English Wiktionary 2024.png
| caption = Main Page of the English Wiktionary on December 4, 2024.
| collapsible = yes
| url = {{URL|wiktionary.org}}
| commercial = No
| type = [[Dictionary|Online dictionary]]
| language = [[Multilingual]] ({{NUMBEROF|active|wiktionary}} active)<ref name="Sitematrix" />
| registration = Optional
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
| author = {{ubl|[[Jimmy Wales]]|[[Wikimedia Foundation|Wikimedia]] community}}
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2002|12|12}}
| current_status = Active
}}

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'''Wiktionary''' ({{IPAc-en|UK|ˈ|w|ɪ|k|ʃ|ən|ər|i|audio=en-uk-Wiktionary.ogg}}, {{respell|WIK|shə|nər|ee}}; {{IPAc-en|US|ˈ|w|ɪ|k|ʃ|ə|n|ɛr|i|audio=En-us-Wiktionary-3.ogg}}, {{respell|WIK|shə|nerr|ee}}; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, [[World Wide Web|web]]-based project to create a [[free content]] [[dictionary]] of terms (including [[word]]s, [[phrase]]s, [[proverb]]s, [[linguistic reconstruction]]s, etc.) in all [[natural language]]s and in a number of [[Constructed language|artificial language]]s. These entries may contain [[definition]]s, [[image]]s for illustration, [[pronunciation]]s, [[etymology|etymologies]], [[inflection]]s, usage examples, [[quotation]]s, related terms, and [[translation]]s of terms into other languages, among other features. It is [[collaborative editing|collaboratively edited]] via a [[wiki]]. [[:wikt:Wiktionary|Its name]] is a [[portmanteau]] of the words ''[[wikt:wiki|wiki]]'' and ''[[wikt:dictionary|dictionary]]''. It is available in {{NUMBEROF|languages|wiktionary}} languages and in [[Basic English|Simple English]]<!--piped like that because "Simple English" is the name of the Wiktionary in question; see [[:wikt:simple:Main Page]]-->. Like its sister project [[Wikipedia]], Wiktionary is run by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]], and is written collaboratively by [[volunteering|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 terms from many languages, and some editions offer additional information typically found in [[Thesaurus|thesauri]].

Wiktionary's data is frequently used in various [[#Wiktionary data in natural language processing|natural language processing tasks]].