These files contain definitions that have been automatically (read not
perfectly) extracted from the latest dump of the English Wiktionary.
The files are all in the same tab-delimited format, encoded in UTF-8 and
compressed with gzip. The content of each field is the MediaWiki markup from
the page.
Language \t Page name \t Section \t Definition
The *-latest-* are symlinks to the latest versions of the dated files, and the
*-all-* files contain all languages (including English), while the *-en-* files
contain only the English defintions.
The tools used to create these lists can be obtained anonymously using Subversion:
$ svn co https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/p_enwikt/listdefns
Please report any bugs to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User_talk:Conrad.Irwin
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Wiktionary under CC-SA-BY , see
for more information.
Detailed information on authorship for each definition can be found at