cargilcm/frwiktionary

This data collected are for english translations derived from a recent fr.wiktionary.org dump (dl on apr 29 2026)

latest update (dated 6 may 2026)

view english translations for a french word by examining a matching jsonl line: grep 'bien sûr' pages_just_translations.jsonl or parse the whole file into memory using python datasets module and query accordingly - click me to run a test query in your browser. the referenced pages_just_translations.jsonl constitutes a clean professional work product that accomodates diacritics and supercedes the sqlite files. In future maybe i should export the page content. i recognize that there may be additional translations that could be gleaned from {t+|en} Wiktionary templates but this is a relatively thorough proof of concept and it should be noted that to expand on this the programmer would be advised to factor that there are many templates for many languages under the umbrella wiktionary project. be well and dont learn all the intricacies in 1 night :)

warning: some translation entries in the French Wiktionary contain a "|" and text after which i didn't understand so i left it in case it means something to you. just strip everything from the | and after per entry if you want

# open database: $:` sqlite3 frwiktionary-20230501-pages-articles-multistream.xml-pcre_parsed.db`

see create table schema

sqlite > .schema joined_trans:

CREATE TABLE `joined_trans` (
`id` integer NOT NULL
, `page_id` integer DEFAULT NULL
, `page_title` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL
, `rev_id` integer DEFAULT NULL
, `rev_page` integer DEFAULT NULL
, `old_id` integer DEFAULT NULL
, `text_transd` varchar(1255) DEFAULT NULL
);

Num rows:

2,281,460 or more accurately: select count(*) from joined_trans where `text_transd` != 'NULL';:

37010*

*this number which is significantly smaller than an English dictionary which usually has ~>60k words but accounts for the deficiency in words assigned a translation text on the French Wiktionary as described in the paper and it's referenced papers (download from sci-hib.ee to avoid paywall )

Garbled text or query returns no result

from a lesson learned, when i imported the Wiktionary data, i used phpmyadmin which on my system had a default collation setting of 'latin_swedish_ci' so to make this demo/data match what's truly in the Wiktionary I'd have to see what the special characters from Wiktionary were mapped to in swedish_ci and replace those strings in my table with their actual special characters after setting collation to utf. More optimally, i could run thru the whole process again from scratch with the correct collation, but why forego the headaches of sorting out utf quirks, parity withstanding ;)

Example query

SELECT * FROM train WHERE page_title = '├¬tre' LIMIT 100; [query to view être due to utf/latin_swedish_ci garbling]

I foresee as likely my giving a go at reversing the garbling by string replacing all the erroneous special characters on or before June 1,2026 but as I'm a Dad such types of plans are liable to be derailed; that's my disclaimer but I've dragged my feet publishing this data since i completed it in 2023-2024 and the paper was completed in 2016 so i shall hasten to yield such final product