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A free, open dictionary-in-progress aiming to cover all words in all languages. Sister project of Wikipedia powered by MediaWiki.

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How can I retrieve Wiktionary word content?

How may Wiktionary's API be used to determine whether or not a word exists?
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Has anyone parsed Wiktionary?

Wiktionary is a wiki dictionary that covers many languages. It even has translations. I would be interested in parsing it and playing with the data, has anyone does anything like this before? Is there any library I can use? (Preferably Python.)
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How can I use the Wiktionary API for getting pronunciation data?

I was looking for a way to get the pronunciation of any given word by querying an API of some sort. As Wiktionary comes in handy to find pronunciations of words I was trying to use their API, but how do I get the pronunciation of a specific word? It…
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How to embed Wiktionary for offline access in Android App?

I am currently developing an Android app which is a Dictionary, where I am fetching meanings online with Wiktionary API with this: [http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=overflow&rvprop=content&format=jsonfm But I…
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How to query Wiktionary API and get part of speech

I'd like to get the part of speech and maybe the definition for English words. I found a link like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srwhat=text&srsearch=don%27t but it doesn't seem to get me the results I see on…
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wikionary API - meaning of words

I would like get meaning of selected word using wikionary API. Content retrieve data should be the same as is presented in "Word of the day", only the basic meaning without etympology, Synonyms etc.. for example "postiche n Any item of false hair…
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How to parse Wiktionary API?

There is a lack of online resources that demonstrate how I might parse a Wiktionary API response, that looks like this: { "query": { "pages": { "40915": { "pageid": 40915, "ns": 0, …
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Easy way to get wiktionary titles only in one language?

I can get easily a dump with all the titles in the wiktionary, but this dump contains every word, even non-English ones. For example, you find souris (mousein French): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/souris Is there an easy way or an existing script…
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Parse Wiktionary

Is there any .Net library to parse pages I've retrieved through the mediawiki api? A standard mediawiki parser that could just give titles and the data in pure data would be fine, but I would rather have one that is specifically suited to…
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Parse Wiktionary XML data dump into MySQL database using PHP

Alright, I'm just trying to parse Wiktionary Data Dump provided by Wikimedia. My intention is to parse that XML data dump into MySQL database. I didn't find proper documentation regarding the structure of this XML. Also, I'm not able to open the…
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CC BY-SA 3.0 attribution in Android app

I'm developing a mobile app that uses Wiktionary API for retrieving some articles from Wiktionary. This application is going to be commercial. I've read that Wiktionary materials are available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0…
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How can I capitalize the first letter in a string using mediawiki?

How can I capitalize the first letter of a string (or of each word) in Mediawiki? In this case, the string is just a single word, so capitalizing every word's first letter is ok as well. I want to do something like {{#capitalize:string}} and get…
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How to download a category of words from Wiktionary?

I want to download all countable nouns (Category:English countable nouns) from Wiktionary, I tried some corpus on Index of /enwiktionary/latest/, but it looks hard to extract the category I want. Can anybody tell me which one I should use and how to…
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Is there a way to extract Wiktionary data without scraping?

I know there's DBPedia for Wikipedia, but does something like that exist for Wiktionary? I'd like to get something like https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:en:Occupations into JSON or similar format.
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Retrieving the translation section in the Wiktionary API

I am interested in translating English words to a specific language (e.g. Russian). I have read the whole Wiktionary API manual but I have not found a good way. For the word “dog” I can obtain the whole section that contains translations to other…
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