OmegaWiki

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Founded by:	unknown
Status:	Active
Language:	Multilingual
Edit mode:	LoginToEdit
Wiki engine:	MediaWiki
Wiki license:	Multi-license
Main topic:	Dictionary
Backups:	2014-04-07

Wiki size:

424,377 article pages see stats

(As of: 2023-05-29)

OmegaWiki, founded in 2004, is self-described as a "collaborative project to produce a free, multilingual dictionary in every language, with lexicological, terminological and thesaurus information". In other words, "information on all words of all languages", a multilingual dictionary whose entries have definitions translated to as many languages as possible and which provides synonyms and translations for the word in even more languages. Significantly, the OmegaWiki data is available in a relational database, and it uses 'wikidata', making it possible to use the wikis data for many purposes.

OmegaWiki uses an unusual edit mode – "As an anonymous user (OpenEdit, aka IP editor), you can only add new data. If you would like to also modify existing data, please create an account and indicate your languages on your user page" (LoginToEdit). The primary language used on the wiki is British English, but all other languages can be user selectable. The wiki content is released under two licenses: the GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 (GFDL 1.2) and the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 (CC-BY 2.5).

As of February 2011, OmegaWiki had portals in 292 languages, representing the theoretical number of languages a word could be defined in. In its paging structure, OmegaWiki differentiates between expressions and defined meanings (which correspond in a printed dictionary roughly to entries or words and to numbered definitions). The number of expressions in various languages is readily accessible at one of the OmegaWiki statistics pages. The most recent check in July 2023 of this information showed 11 languages with more than 10,000 expressions, another 63 languages with 500 or more expressions, 151 with fewer than than but still more than five expressions, and 57 languages with five or fewer expressions. As of July 2023, its stats showed it had 1,051 languages, 51,229 defined meanings, and 567,060 expressions.

External links

• OmegaWiki — at WikiApiary.com (founded 2011), the wiki site for detailed information on all MediaWiki-powered websites
• WikiStats v2.2 – OmegaWiki (mediawikis - id: 9989) — from Wikistats v2.2 at WikiStats.WMCloud.org; independent MediaWiki statistics from mutante, hosted by Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)

Tables of included languages

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number of expressions in each language in OmegaWiki [1]

language	expressions		language	expressions
English	48201		Turkish	1867
Spanish	29735		Indonesian	1731
German	23139		Korean	1650
Dutch	22810		Serbian (Latin script)	1338
French	21874		Khmer	1314
Italian	15174		Lithuanian	1302
Portuguese	13910		Ukrainian	1270
Finnish	11485		Interlingua	1257
Swedish	11433		Galician	1257
Polish	10853		Icelandic	1201
Russian	8925		Simplified Chinese (Mandarin)	1199
Bulgarian	8544		Latvian	1122
Danish	8504		Welsh	1119
Georgian	8099		Croatian	1118
Czech	7792		Neapolitan	1085
Norwegian Bokmål	7628		Vietnamese	1046
Slovak	7618		Piedmontese	912
Greek	7472		Thai	890
Hungarian	7353		Hindi	880
Basque	7057		Armenian	878
Estonian	7016		Volapük	794
Slovenian	6813		Kölsch	781
Japanese	5894		Swahili	768
Arabic	3355		Irish	661
Serbian (Cyrillic script)	3244		Nynorsk	644
Persian	3171		Ido	628
Catalan	2945		Traditional Chinese (Mandarin)	606
Breton	2829		Marathi	554
Esperanto	2798		English (United States)	542
Hebrew	2652		Sicilian	540
Afrikaans	2144		English (United Kingdom)	526
Romanian	1931		Bengali	525

languages with entries between 100 and 500:

Belarusian (483), Tamil (478), Gujarati (466), Asturian (448), Latin (443), Telugu (414), Macedonian (405), Frisian (405), Flemish (395), Novial (370), Urdu (334), Tagalog (327), Malay (321), Venetian (299), Luxembourgish (268), Aragonese (258), Limburgish (253), Sanskrit (253), Maltese (252), Portuguese (Brazil) (240), Eastern Yiddish (236), Kazakh (235), Lingua Franca Nova (232), Tajik (217), Malayalam (210), Faroese (209), Kotava (206), Bavarian (201), Corsican (192), Lombard (182), Zulu (177), Walloon (159), Xhosa (155), Cantonese (141), Occitan (138), Lojban (134), Portuguese (Portugal) (123), Upper Sorbian (114), Wolof (108), Kannada (107), Nepali (105), Javanese (104), Cornish (102), Maldivian (102), Ossetian (100)

languages with fewer than 100 entries:

Bosnian (89), Ligurian (86), Mingrelian (86), Bishnupriya (85), Ladin (84), Cebuano (78), Lower Sorbian (70), Pennsylvania Deitsch (55), Scottish Gaelic (51), Navajo (49), German (Switzerland) (48), Romansch (48), German (Austria) (47), Interlingue (45), Amharic (45), Maori (44), Manx (41), Tetum (34), Franco-Provençal (32), Yoruba (30), Tatar (26), Ancient Greek (26), Alemannic German (25), Chuvash (25), Kyrgyz (24), French (Canada) (23), Gilaki (23), Lingala (Latin) (22), Tosk (20), Cherokee (20), Tigrigna (20), Ilocano (20), Nepal Bhasa (18), Old English (17), Ewe (16), Hausa (Latin script) (16), Mirandese (16), Lingala (15), Dzongkha (15), Kiribatese (13), French (Switzerland) (12), Bambara (12), Saterfriesisch (12), Somali (11), Scots (11), Lao (11), Erzya (10), Burmese (10), French (France) (10), Samoan (9), Crimean Tatar (8), French (Belgium) (8), Assamese (7), Udmurt (7), Tok Pisin (7), Kabyle (6), Hawaiian (6), Pitjantjatjara (6), Sinhala (6), Extremaduran (6), Eastern Mari (5), Sranantongo (4), Emiliano-Romagnolo (4), Tongan (4), Bakhtiari (4), Moksha (4), Kashubian (4), Comorian (3), Bashkir (3), Gheg (3), Sundanese (3), Southern Balochi (2), Chechen (2), Akan (2), Sindhi (Arabic script) (2), Egyptian Arabic (2), Igbo (2), Chickasaw (2), Võro (2), K'iche' (2), Abkhaz (2), Silesian (2), Megleno Romanian (1), Tzeltal (1), Poqomchi' (1), Ingush (1), Wymysorys (1), Tzotzil (1), Achi (1), Chicomuceltec (1), Tz'utujil (1), Huastec (1), Kaqchikel (1), Luganda (1), Chuj (1), Sacapulteco (1), Tojolabal (1), Sipacapense (1), Jakalteko (1), Uspanteco (1), Hausa (Arabic script) (1), Central Kurdish (1), Pontic (1), Kanjobal (1), Mopán Maya (1), Arbëreshë Albanian (1), Karakalpak (1), Akateko (1), Lacandon (1), Picard (1), Mocho (1), South Saami (1), Awakateko (1), Western Mari (1), Ixil (1), Mam (1), Tabasco Chontal (1), Tektiteko (1), Kashubian (1), Nhengatu (1), Chol (1), Kekchí (1), Chortí (1), Poqomam (1)