Attribution

Word origin content on Curio is adapted from Wiktionary entries, via the Wiktextract structured data project. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license and the GNU Free Documentation License.

Curio's Origin, Journey, and Related Words sections are rewritten from that raw entry data by an offline language-model pass, but the underlying etymological facts trace back to Wiktionary contributors. Any further reuse of Curio's content should preserve this attribution and remain under a compatible share-alike license.

The language facts on Collection (where and when a language was spoken, its speakers and its family) are adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) and Wikidata (CC0). They are summarised by an offline language-model pass, under a rule that it may not add anything the sources don't say, and each language is reviewed before it is published.

curio dig

The daily word game, curio dig, is built from open data. Word frequencies come from wordfreq by Robyn Speer (CC BY-SA 4.0), which includes data from the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Word senses and relations come from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata (CC0). Wiktionary pageviews come from the Wikimedia REST API. The fossil notes quote Wiktionary etymologies (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet definitions.

The LDNOOBW word list (CC BY 4.0) is used to filter answers. The game is set in the Libre Caslon Text typeface (SIL Open Font License).