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Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.
Sister projects and milestones related to articles, user base, and other statistics. On 15 January 2001, the first recorded edit of Wikipedia was performed. In December 2002, the first sister project, Wiktionary, was created; aiming to produce a dictionary and thesaurus of the words in all languages. It uses the same software as Wikipedia.
The foundation operates 11 wiki-based content projects that are written and governed by volunteer editors. They include, by launch date: Wikipedia – online encyclopedia; Wiktionary – online dictionary and thesaurus; Wikibooks – a collection of books, mostly textbooks; Wikiquote – a collection of quotations; Wikivoyage – travel guide
Although changes are not systematically reviewed, Wikipedia's software provides tools allowing anyone to review changes made by others. Each article's History page links to each revision. [e] [70] On most articles, anyone can view the latest changes and undo others' revisions by clicking a link on the article's History page. Registered users ...
Wiktionary is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online dictionary. As of December 2024, Wiktionary articles have been created in 195 editions, with 171 currently active and 24 closed. [1] This is a table of detailed statistics of Wiktionaries.
For over 24 years editors have volunteered their time and talents to create history's most comprehensive encyclopedia while providing references and other resources to researchers worldwide (see Researching with Wikipedia). In summary, Wikipedia has tested the wisdom of the crowd since 2001 and has found that it succeeds.
An indirect precursor of the wiki concept was the ZOG multi-user database system, developed in 1972 by researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University.The ZOG interface consisted of text-only frames, each containing a title, a description, a line with standard ZOG commands, and a set of selections (hypertext links) leading to other frames.
The simplest way to insert a table is with the editing toolbar. Although HTML table syntax also works, special wikicode can be used as a shortcut to create a table. The pipe ( vertical bar ) codes function exactly the same as HTML table markup, so a knowledge of HTML table code helps in understanding pipe code.