The Open Internet Lexicon (OIL) is an initiative to build a dictionary of web terms (words and short phrases) in many languages. Our goal is to reflect current internet and web usage in many countries. The dictionary will be open for all who are building multilingual web sites or single-language web sitesnOIL runs on a database-backed web site using skybuilders.com timeLines technology. skyBuilders webWare has an interface in which every text element - button labels, column headings, row names, hyperlink text, captions - is stored in the database in languages for multiple locales. The multilingual text tables are part of the industry-standard Open DataBase Model.