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Mission Wiktionary serves to:
History It was set up on , the English Wiktionary has more than 130,000 entries, although in early 2006 it was surpassed by the French Wiktionary, which now has more than 165,000 entries. More than a dozen languages now have Wiktionaries containing at least 10,000 entries. Top Ten Wiktionaries Multilingualism Unlike many dictionaries, which are monolingual or bilingual, Wiktionary is ''multilingual'', meaning that the goal is to define every word from all known languages in every other language, as well as in the original language itself. For example, the English Wiktionary is written in English but accepts entries for words from all languages. The French Wiktionary can also have entries for all those same words, but the entries are written in French. Comparison to other sister projects One difference between Wiktionary and Wikipedia is that pages beginning with " are distinct. All of the existing entries in the English Wiktionary were converted to lowercase automatically in mid- 2005 ; manual intervention is being used to move pages to uppercase as necessary. WikiSaurus WikiSaurus is a category in Wiktionary whose purpose is to serve as a Thesaurus , including a thesaurus of Slang words. See " page. References See also External links
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