Wiktionnaire

Wiktionnaire is the name of a multilingual project of Dictionnaire of the Fondation Wikimedia. More specifically, the term “Wiktionnaire” indicates the French-speaking version of this project, Wiktionary being official name in English. It is founded on a system Wiki and its contents are freely reusable (under license GFDL).

Organization

Wiktionnaire has the role to become a doubly multilingual dictionary (the entries and the definitions are multilingual).

Wiktionnaire indicates the part of the project containing the definitions in French words of all the languages of which the French language. In the long term, it should contain in wolof the definition of words Inuktitut.

The definitions are supplemented by the etymology, the Prononciation, of the Traduction S, the lists of Synonyme S, Homonyme S, etc

History

Daniel Alston, alias Fonzy, is one of the principal initiators and promoters of this project. The project was open on http://wiktionary.wikipedia.org on Thursday, December 12, 2002, then moved with http://www.wiktionary.org on December 26th, 2002. March 22nd, 2004, the French-speaking version was created with http://fr.wiktionary.org.

French-speaking version

Thanks to the automatic insertion of many free dictionaries, the French-speaking version very quickly grew at the end of 2005 and in 2006. April 6th, 2005, Wiktionnaire counted approximately: 4000  articles. November 19th of the same year, it exceeded them: 25000  articles all confused languages, exceeding them at the same time: 10000  French articles. At the first days of 2006, it exceeded the 100  000 articles and became temporarily most important Wiktionnaire all confused languages. In November 2007, the French-speaking version contained more: 600000  articles, concerning more: 640000  words (in 658 languages), of which more: 225000  French words.

See too

Related articles

  • Dictionary

  • OmegaWiki, in the past WiktionaryZ
  • Assistance: Wiktionnaire, assistance to use Wiktionnaire since Wikipédia

External bonds

Wiktionnaire|Wiktionnaire
  • Wiktionnaire in French and Concerning Wiktionnaire
  • Wiktionary, gate of the languages
  • , statistics of Wiktionnaires of each language

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