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The Wenlin Dictionaries Wiki is the home of several dictionaries and related tools for education, linguistics, and lexicography. We provide online access free of charge to a variety of resources, including abridged dictionaries. We also provide online access to additional resources, such as complete unabridged dictionaries and advanced software tools, on an affordable monthly subscription basis. We encourage all users to [https://wenlinshangdian.com sign up] at least for a free membership, which enables some features not available to anonymous users, such as setting preferences.
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The dictionaries include:
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* The Wenlin Zidian (Wenlin Institute, Inc. SPC). Each entry describes a single Chinese character, with explanation in English, and connections to related characters and vocabulary. Its wiki namespace is 'Zi', for zìdiǎn 字典 (character dictionary). Sample entry:  [[Zi:字]]
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* The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (John DeFrancis et al.). This is a dictionary of Mandarin Chinese words and phrases, with glosses (definitions) and translations in English. Its wiki namespace is 'Ci', for cídiǎn 词典 (dictionary of words). Sample entry: [[Ci:1001930945|cídiǎn]]
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* The ABC English-Chinese Dictionary (John DeFrancis, Zhang Yanyin, et al.). The entries describe English words, with glosses and translations in Mandarin Chinese. Its wiki namespace is 'En', for English. Sample entry: [[En:2001555850|tiger]]
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* The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bob Bauer. The entries describe Cantonese vocabulary, with glosses in English. Its wiki namespace is 'Jyut'. Sample entry: [[Jyut:00001|aa¹]]
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Please see also the [//guide.wenlininstitute.org/wenlin4.3/Acknowledgments Acknowledgments] section of the user's guide for our desktop software.
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We license our dictionaries and technologies to other organizations, and are always eager to expand our network of relationships.
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We're also the makers of [//wenlin.com/products Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese], desktop software for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux, offering many capabilities that are currently beyond what our website can do. Please see [//wenlin.com wenlin.com] to learn more.
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==Getting started with Mediawiki==
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* Consult the [//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.
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* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]
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* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]
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* [https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]
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* [//www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Localisation#Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language]
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[[Project:TechInfo|Technical information about namespaces, etc.]]

Revision as of 17:12, 9 February 2017

The Wenlin Dictionaries Wiki is the home of several dictionaries and related tools for education, linguistics, and lexicography. We provide online access free of charge to a variety of resources, including abridged dictionaries. We also provide online access to additional resources, such as complete unabridged dictionaries and advanced software tools, on an affordable monthly subscription basis. We encourage all users to sign up at least for a free membership, which enables some features not available to anonymous users, such as setting preferences.

The dictionaries include:

  • The Wenlin Zidian (Wenlin Institute, Inc. SPC). Each entry describes a single Chinese character, with explanation in English, and connections to related characters and vocabulary. Its wiki namespace is 'Zi', for zìdiǎn 字典 (character dictionary). Sample entry: Zi:字
  • The ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary (John DeFrancis et al.). This is a dictionary of Mandarin Chinese words and phrases, with glosses (definitions) and translations in English. Its wiki namespace is 'Ci', for cídiǎn 词典 (dictionary of words). Sample entry: cídiǎn
  • The ABC English-Chinese Dictionary (John DeFrancis, Zhang Yanyin, et al.). The entries describe English words, with glosses and translations in Mandarin Chinese. Its wiki namespace is 'En', for English. Sample entry: tiger
  • The ABC Cantonese-English Dictionary by Bob Bauer. The entries describe Cantonese vocabulary, with glosses in English. Its wiki namespace is 'Jyut'. Sample entry: aa¹

Please see also the Acknowledgments section of the user's guide for our desktop software.

We license our dictionaries and technologies to other organizations, and are always eager to expand our network of relationships.

We're also the makers of Wenlin Software for Learning Chinese, desktop software for Windows, macOS, and GNU/Linux, offering many capabilities that are currently beyond what our website can do. Please see wenlin.com to learn more.

Getting started with Mediawiki

TODO: move this section some page like Project:Help (?) and make the Help button in the sidebar point to that page, for Wenlin-specific help instead of MediaWiki-generic help. The WL help will then have (among other things) links to the MW help.

Technical information about namespaces, etc.

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