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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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Searching all elements before an h2 element in hpricot/nokogiri

I am attempting to parse a Wiktionary entry to retrieve all english definitions. I am able to retrive all definitions, the problem is that some definitions are in other languages. What I would like to do is somehow retrieve only the HTML block…
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Getting Wiktionary Term from DBPedia Sparql Endpoint with RDFSharp

I am trying to return dbpedia entries for Wiktionary terms by searching for the term using the RDFSharp library. (Once I have the term, I'll get additional properties, but for now I just need to know if I'm approaching this the right way.) My…
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Mapping from Wiktionary part-of-speech tags to 12 universal part-of-speech tags

Does anyone have a Python dict mapping from the Wiktionary part-of-speech tags to the 12 universal part-of-speech tags, along with a rationale for the mapping? The 12 universal tags are: VERB - verbs (all tenses and modes) NOUN - nouns (common and…
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dbnary SPARQL query yield zero results, how to find the cause?

I have some basic experience in using SPARQL with Wikidata, and now I'm trying my first steps in DBnary, an attempt to extract structural RDF data from Wiktionary. The first example they give loads all available German translations of the English…
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Wiktionary Parser for Python 3.6_ only for definitions

I am trying to parse the definitions of target English word from "en.Wiktionary.org" I had considered already existing module(https://github.com/Suyash458/WiktionaryParser/blob/master/readme.md) ,however, it parses redundancies to my purpose - such…
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Ajax call to wiktionary.org to retrieve information on one specific language

To get information about a word in Wiktionary, I can make an Ajax call to the following URL at wiktionary.org: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&prop=text|revid&callback=?&page=слово, where слово is the word of…
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"vsSwitcher" table class on Wiktionary

I have been looking at implementing Wiktionary's vsSwitcher table class for some time, but cannot find where it is defined. It is used in pages such as the table generator module used for Finnish declensions, as well as multiple other such modules…
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wiktionary - I cannot get a local working copy

I'll be the first to admit I'm not the smartest person in the world, but I'm at a loss on this one. I want to have access to the words and details of each word of the English Wiktionary project. I saw they do data dumps, and got all excited. That…
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What is the simplest way to get a Wiktionary definition working in my Chrome extension?

This person has a very simple translation script working on the Wiktionary API. How would I go about modifying this to return some dictionary definitions for English words? http://jsfiddle.net/karlb/PxfrJ/11/ function show_result(data) { …
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How do I access the "See Also" Field in the Wiktionary API?

Many of the Wiktionary pages for Chinese Characters (Hanzi) include links at the top of the page to other similar-looking characters. I'd like to use the Wiktionary API to send a single character in the query and receive a list of similar…
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Wiktionary API to retrieve word forms (or other free service)

This is a question particularly for Russian/Ukrainian languages but may be useful for other languages too. Is there a possibility to retrieve word forms as raw data? To use in mobile application for example. These forms are present on the general…
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Android Sample Widget SimpleWiktionary does not update

I am trying to wrap my head around Android Widgets, using the sample provided here: http://code.google.com/p/wiktionary-android/ I have corrected the strings.xml but the plugin will not work properly, neither on the emulator nor on the actual phone.…
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Get list of nouns and declension of a word from Wiktionary API

I would like to get: a list of nouns in a specific language the case declension table for a word in a slavic language. I was hoping to be able to send something like an http get request with…
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How are you supposed to do admin/sysop actions with Pywikibot 8?

I have been using an outdated version of Pywikibot and Python 2 and finally got around to upgrading to Python 3 and Pywikibot 8. All support for "sysop" accounts seems to have been removed and there's no documentation I can find on how to work with…
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Use Wiktionary to create custom vocab lists in multiple languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, English)

complete REST API noob here, and first time on stackoverflow. My problem is: I currently have a long English-Japanese character vocabulary list. I am also studying Mandarin Chinese and already know Cantonese. For each entry that currently contains…
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