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    <p>There are a few caveats in just checking that Wiktionary has a page with the name you are looking for:</p> <p><strong>Caveat #1</strong>: All Wiktionaries including the English Wiktionary actually have the goal of including every word in every language, so if you simply use above API call you will know that the word you are asking about is a word in at least one language, but not necessarily English: <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=dicare" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=dicare</a></p> <p><strong>Caveat #2</strong>: Perhaps a redirect exists from one word to another word. It might be from an alternative spelling, but it might be from an error of some kind. The API call above will not differentiate between a redirect and an article: <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=profilemetry" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=profilemetry</a></p> <p><strong>Caveat #3</strong>: Some Wiktionaries including the English Wiktionary include "common misspellings": <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=fourty" rel="noreferrer">http://en.wiktionary.org/w/api.php?action=query&amp;titles=fourty</a></p> <p><strong>Caveat #4</strong>: Some Wiktionaries allow stub entries which have little or no information about the term. This used to be common on several Wiktionaries but not the English Wiktionary. But it seems to have now spread also to the English Wiktionary: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%99%B6%E7%90%83" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%99%B6%E7%90%83</a> (permalink for when the stub is filled so you can still see what a stub looks like: <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%99%B6%E7%90%83&amp;oldid=39757161" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%99%B6%E7%90%83&amp;oldid=39757161</a>)</p> <p>If these are not included in what you want, you will have to load and parse the wikitext itself, which is not a trivial task.</p>
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    1. COWhat I really wanted to do was take a full dump of the data on one of the non-English Wikitionary sites, and then turn the contents into something I could use locally. It seems silly now, but I was hoping that I could request the list of all words, and then pull down their defitions/translations one at a time as needed.
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    2. COThe fix to Caveat #2 is simple: add `&prop=info` to the query and check the response for `redirect` attribute.
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    3. CO@svick: Yes it's true #2 is easier to circumvent when using the API but these basic caveats also cover trying to parse the [Wiktionary data dump files](http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiktionary/), even though this question doesn't ask about that approach.
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