Wiktionary:Milestones


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Number of entries
Currently:

Number of languages

 * 2016 April 05: Wiktionary includes 5,141,501 entries on ~4,685,000 content pages, containing 2,246,569 gloss definitions and 5,004,890 form-of definitions, in 2336 languages — approximately one-third of the number of languages spoken in the world. 11 languages have at least 100,000 entries: Latin, English, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Finnish, Latvian, and Esperanto. Two languages have over 100,000 gloss definitions: English (549,301) and Italian (142,120).
 * 2015 August 08: Wiktionary includes 2,089,893 gloss definitions and 4,254,542 form-of definitions of 4,540,520 words (L2 sections; including inflected forms) from 1628 languages, spread out over on ~4,132,000 content pages (~4,498,000 including talk pages, etc).
 * 2015 April 25: Wiktionary includes four million entries.
 * 2015 January 3: Wiktionary has 4 268 023 entries (that is, L2 sections) spread out over about 3 900 000 pages; it has at least one entry in each of 1529 languages. The same ten languages constitute the 100k club: Latin, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish, Esperanto and Latvian. The languages with the most gloss (non "form of") definitions are English (497 247), Italian (135 079) and Japanese (84 640).
 * 2014 August 20: Wiktionary has at least one entry in each of 1506 languages. The languages with the most entries are Latin (658 670), English (554 349) and Italian (514 237); the languages with the most definitions are Latin (1 092 069), English (723 588) and Italian (646 528), but this includes inflected forms' "definitions"; the languages with the most "gloss" definitions are English (486 026), Italian (135 173) and Japanese (81 594).
 * 2014 February 06: Latvian joins the 100k club: Wiktionary now has 100 000+ entries in ten languages: Latin, English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Finnish, Esperanto and Latvian. 1214 lects have at least one entry.
 * 2013 December 08: Wiktionary has granted codes to 7720 lects; 139 are Wiktionary-specific exceptional codes, the rest are ISO codes. 1150 lects have at least one entry.
 * 2013 September 01: Wiktionary has 100 000+ entries in nine languages, as Portuguese makes a rapid rise into the middle of the 100k pack. Latin has the most entries (628 931), followed by English (510 941), Italian (496 796), French (281 228), Spanish, Portuguese, German, Finnish and Esperanto. Wiktionary has 10+ entries in 559 languages (and 1000+ entries in 104 languages), including the aforementioned nine. It has at least one entry in each of 1117 languages.
 * 2013 February 25: Wiktionary has 100 000+ entries in eight languages, as German joins the list: Latin, English, Italian, French, Spanish, Finnish, Esperanto and German.
 * 2012 November 27: Wiktionary has 10+ entries in 500+ languages
 * 2012 September 20: Wiktionary has at least one entry in 1000+ languages
 * 2012 March 29: Wiktionary has 100 000+ entries in seven languages, as Esperanto joins the list: Latin, Italian, English, Spanish, French, Finnish and Esperanto.
 * 2011 October 08: Wiktionary has at least one entry in 800+ languages
 * 2011 March 08: Wiktionary has 100 000+ entries in six languages, as Finnish joins the list: Italian, Latin, English, Spanish, French and Finnish.
 * 2010 September 01: after the number of Latin entries triples in a week, Wiktionary has 100 000+ entries in five languages: Italian, English, Spanish, French and Latin.
 * 2010 August 24: Wiktionary has 10+ entries in 400+ languages
 * 2010 April 03: Wiktionary has at least one entry in 750+ languages, and 10+ entries in 385 languages. Wiktionary has 100 000+ entries in four languages: Italian, English, Spanish and French.

Other milestones

 * 2018 February 19: the 500,000th English lemma was added, motlopi.
 * 2014 February 22: Wiktionary defines 519 279 adjectives (across all languages), 61 678 adverbs, 541 articles, 3056 conjunctions, 1114 determiners, 6284 interjections, 1 299 923 nouns, 144 954 participles, 995 particles, 4080 prefixes, 4300 prepositions, 10 224 pronouns, 107 697 proper nouns, 5323 suffixes, and 1 778 383 verbs.
 * 2014 January 18: Wiktionary has about 211 000 English nouns, about 83 000 English adjectives and about 29 000 English verbs (including alternative forms). It has about 22 000 German nouns and 3 600 German verbs, and about 12 000 Dutch nouns and 3 600 Dutch verbs. 102 users have administrator privileges (not all are active).
 * 2013 September 20: Wiktionary has about 206 000 English nouns, about 81 000 English adjectives and about 28 000 English verbs (including alternative forms).
 * 2010 May 08: Wiktionary has 3000 Dutch verbs.
 * 2007 December 04: The basic English word list of 18 000 words has been completed.
 * 2007 May 08: Beobach972 became the English Wiktionary's 50th user with the sysop flag.