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Lingua Libre

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Summary

Lingua Libre is a web application[1]. It draws 185 Wikipedia views per month (web application category, ranking #24 of 46).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award[3]
  • Instance of: Wikidata front end[4], wiki[5], pronunciation database[6], WikiProject[7]
  • Founder: Wikimedia France[8], Lucas Lévêque[9], Nicolas Vion[10], Hugo Pierre Lopez[11], Rémy Gerbet[12]
  • Maintained by: Wikimedia France[13]
  • Owned by: Wikimedia France[14]
  • Named after: free software[15], language[16]
  • Based on: Shtooka[17]
  • Developer: Hugo Pierre Lopez[18], Q141440084[19]
  • Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International[20]
  • Commons category: Lingua Libre[21]
  • Platform: MediaWiki[22]
  • Language of work or name: multiple languages[23]
  • Inception: November 2015[24]
  • Publication date: August 2016[25]
  • Official website: https://lingualibre.org[26]
  • Sponsor: Wikimedia France[27], Wikimedia Foundation[28], General Delegation for the French language and the languages of France[29], Urfist Occitanie[30], Google Summer of Code[31]
  • Main subject: linguistics[32], pronunciation[33], sound recording process[34], language documentation[35], vocabulary[36]
  • Source code repository URL: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/wikimedia-france/lingua-libre/lingualibre.org/[37]
  • Used by: SignIt[38], Lo Congrès permanent de la lenga occitana[39], Anki[40]
  • Main Wikidata property: P10369[41]
  • Uses: Wikibase[42], OAuth[43], translatewiki.net[44], Vue.js[45], Django[46], MariaDB[47], Codex[48], Wikimedia Commons[49]
  • Search formatter URL: https://lingualibre.org/w/index.php?search=$1[50]
  • Modified version of: Shtooka[51]
  • SPARQL endpoint URL: https://lingualibre.org/bigdata/namespace/wdq/sparql[52]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[53]

Why It Matters

Lingua Libre has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

FAQs

What awards did Lingua Libre receive?

Honors received include Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award[3].

Related Entities

free software linguistics Sweden Vue.js web application

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  15. [3] ↑ . meta.wikimedia.org. Retrieved . meta.wikimedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . gitlab.wikimedia.org. gitlab.wikimedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  40. [42] ↑ . wikimediafoundation.org. wikimediafoundation.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23h ago · Yug · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Source code repository url → https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/wikimedia-france/lingua-l
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Source code repository url: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/wikimedia-france/lingua-libre/lingualibre.org/"
  2. 1d ago · Yug · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses → Wikibase, OAuth, translatewiki.net +5
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    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Sparql endpoint url: https://lingualibre.org/bigdata/namespace/wdq/sparql"
  3. 4w ago · Yug · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Developer → Antoine Lamielle, Nicolas Vion, Hugo Pierre Lopez +2
    Uses → Wikibase, OAuth, translatewiki.net +5
    Source code repository url → https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/wikimedia-france/lingua-l
    Distributed from → Wikimedia Cloud Services
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Uses: Codex"
  4. 5w ago · Yug · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Uses → —
    Copyright license → Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Developer: Hugo Pierre Lopez"
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