A new video has been published presenting the development of Wiktionary from 2002 to 2026 using an animated data visualization. It is a visual story about global collaboration and the building of multilingual knowledge by communities from around the world.
The video features a bar chart race, illustrating year-by-year changes in the number of entries across more than 100 Wiktionary language editions. Each bar represents a single language version, with rankings shifting over time as different communities expand at varying rates. The video highlights the scale and dynamics of one of the world’s largest multilingual dictionary projects developed through open collaboration.
Milestones: 10K, 20K, 50K, 100K, 200K, 500K, 1M, 2M, 5M.
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You can also check current number of Wiktionary entities in various language versions: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiktionary
10K Wiktionary Entities
September 2003English
July 2004Polish
December 2004Galician
February 2005Italian
March 2005Dutch
April 2005Bulgarian
June 2005French, Ido
August 2005Finnish
September 2005German
December 2005Chinese
January 2006Kurdish, Portuguese
March 2006Greek, Hungarian
April 2006Estonian
June 2006Indonesian, Swedish, Vietnamese
July 2006Serbian
August 2006Spanish
September 2006Korean, Russian
October 2006Japanese, Turkish
December 2006Arabic, Persian
April 2007Icelandic
July 2007Volapük
August 2007Telugu
November 2007Limburgish, Lithuanian, Romanian
January 2008Afrikaans
March 2008Tamil
April 2008Sicilian
May 2008Breton
August 2008Norwegian
January 2009Lao
February 2009Catalan, Ukrainian
March 2009Thai
April 2009Western Frisian
May 2009Swahili
June 2009Occitan
August 2009Czech, Simple English
September 2009Malayalam
October 2009Kannada
March 2010Hebrew
June 2010Croatian
July 2010Malagasy
August 2010Burmese
December 2010Esperanto
June 2011Basque
July 2011Hindi
October 2011Welsh
November 2011Fijian
December 2011Tagalog
January 2012Urdu
February 2012Asturian
August 2012Norwegian Nynorsk
September 2012Minnan
December 2012Pashto
January 2013Javanese
April 2013Danish
June 2013Uzbek
August 2013Cherokee, Walloon
September 2013Azerbaijani
February 2014Armenian, Serbo-Croatian
April 2014Odia
November 2015Tajik
February 2016Slovak
March 2016Latin
August 2016Kyrgyz
June 2017Latvian
March 2018Punjabi
April 2018Bangla
October 2019Albanian, Saraiki
March 2020Shan
September 2020Georgian, Slovenian
May 2021Oromo
August 2021Minangkabau
December 2021Lombard, Malay
January 2022Low German, Mon, Sango
May 2022Kabardian
May 2023Gorontalo
June 2023Kazakh
March 2024Luxembourgish
June 2024Bosnian
20K Wiktionary Entities
November 2003English
October 2004Polish
April 2005Bulgarian
July 2005Italian
August 2005Ido
September 2005French
December 2005Dutch
January 2006Chinese
March 2006German
April 2006Finnish
May 2006Greek, Hungarian
June 2006Vietnamese
September 2006Portuguese
October 2006Kurdish, Russian
November 2006Turkish
December 2006Swedish
January 2007Spanish
May 2007Indonesian
July 2007Korean, Volapük
August 2007Arabic
September 2007Telugu
October 2007Japanese
January 2008Lithuanian
March 2008Tamil
July 2008Galician
September 2008Romanian
February 2009Lao
March 2009Estonian
April 2009Norwegian
May 2009Ukrainian
June 2009Catalan
November 2009Kannada
December 2009Malayalam
March 2010Limburgish
August 2010Malagasy
September 2010Burmese
January 2011Czech, Persian
February 2011Icelandic
April 2011Esperanto
July 2011Hindi
August 2011Croatian
September 2011Occitan
November 2011Basque
May 2012Breton, Thai
October 2012Fijian
January 2013Javanese
May 2013Minnan
June 2013Simple English
July 2013Pashto, Welsh
August 2013Cherokee
February 2014Armenian, Serbo-Croatian, Uzbek
May 2014Azerbaijani
August 2014Danish
December 2014Odia
September 2015Serbian
August 2016Walloon
February 2017Tajik
August 2017Slovak
November 2017Latin
March 2018Afrikaans
April 2018Kyrgyz
June 2018Urdu
January 2019Asturian
January 2020Hebrew
July 2020Shan
August 2020Saraiki
May 2021Bangla
July 2021Slovenian
January 2022Oromo
April 2022Sango
May 2022Mon
November 2022Lombard
May 2023Kabardian
August 2023Malay
January 2025Georgian
August 2025Swahili
50K Wiktionary Entities
December 2004English
December 2005French
May 2006Chinese, Ido
July 2006Vietnamese
September 2006Greek
October 2006Russian
December 2006Turkish
January 2007Polish
March 2007Finnish
May 2007German
June 2007Italian
January 2008Arabic, Swedish
February 2008Hungarian
March 2008Tamil
June 2008Lithuanian
September 2008Korean
October 2008Portuguese
March 2009Lao
June 2009Norwegian
August 2009Dutch
February 2010Japanese, Kannada
April 2010Malayalam
July 2010Limburgish
August 2010Spanish
September 2010Burmese, Malagasy
October 2010Kurdish
December 2010Estonian
June 2011Persian
August 2011Hindi
December 2011Indonesian
February 2013Telugu
August 2013Catalan, Cherokee, Czech, Romanian
December 2013Javanese
February 2014Serbo-Croatian
October 2014Uzbek
February 2015Odia
June 2015Armenian
December 2015Thai
April 2016Serbian
January 2017Esperanto
March 2017Basque
April 2017Azerbaijani
September 2017Galician
May 2019Occitan
August 2020Ukrainian
January 2022Saraiki
March 2023Asturian, Icelandic, Sango
December 2023Bangla
March 2024Breton
June 2024Mon
December 2024Malay, Simple English
December 2025Swahili
100K Wiktionary Entities
November 2005English
December 2005French
September 2006Vietnamese
December 2006Russian
January 2007Chinese, Ido, Turkish
March 2007Greek
March 2008Tamil
October 2008Polish
November 2008Finnish
January 2009Lithuanian
February 2009Hungarian
May 2009Italian
June 2009Norwegian
January 2010German, Portuguese
March 2010Swedish
June 2010Korean
October 2010Malagasy
December 2010Dutch
April 2011Kannada
May 2011Burmese
August 2011Hindi
January 2012Indonesian
March 2012Malayalam
May 2012Limburgish
September 2012Kurdish
December 2012Spanish
February 2013Estonian
August 2013Cherokee
November 2013Romanian
December 2013Japanese
February 2014Serbo-Croatian
November 2014Uzbek
January 2015Catalan
April 2015Telugu
May 2015Odia
November 2015Armenian
December 2015Thai
April 2016Serbian
April 2018Czech
August 2019Esperanto
March 2020Persian
October 2022Saraiki
August 2024Bangla
July 2025Mon
November 2025Icelandic
200K Wiktionary Entities
June 2006French
September 2006English
October 2006Vietnamese
June 2008Turkish
March 2009Russian
June 2009Lithuanian
November 2009Chinese
November 2010Malagasy, Polish
May 2011Tamil
June 2011Korean
February 2012German
March 2012Kannada
May 2012Greek
June 2012Swedish
July 2012Dutch
August 2012Ido
October 2012Finnish
January 2013Kurdish
August 2013Spanish
February 2014Hungarian
March 2014Serbo-Croatian
April 2014Italian
September 2014Portuguese
July 2016Catalan
May 2017Armenian
June 2017Serbian
March 2018Japanese
July 2020Thai
November 2025Mon
500K Wiktionary Entities
August 2007English
October 2007French
April 2010Lithuanian
November 2010Chinese
March 2011Malagasy
February 2014Spanish
March 2014Russian, Serbo-Croatian
January 2016Polish, Swedish
February 2016Dutch
April 2016German
October 2016Kurdish
October 2019Greek, Italian
August 2021Catalan
May 2023Hungarian
June 2024Finnish
November 2024Thai
May 2025Turkish
August 2025Portuguese
1M Wiktionary Entities
October 2008English, French
January 2011Chinese
March 2011Malagasy
December 2018Russian
August 2021German
August 2023Greek
February 2024Kurdish
April 2025Thai
December 2025Dutch
2M Wiktionary Entities
September 2010English
April 2011French
October 2012Malagasy
January 2025Chinese
October 2025Thai
5M Wiktionary Entities
November 2016English
July 2018Malagasy
January 2024French