Hi Niklas,
This sounds like a great idea. I can't really help, since I would think the
majority of the challenge would be in getting SMW queries to recognize
different property names as equivalent, so I would think this would require
assistance or at least advice from a core SMW developer; but hopefully one
of them would be willing to help out.
And this sounds like a reasonable project size. If there's one thing you
can learn from going through the list of the Wikimedia Foundation's past
projects for GSoC, it's that "too little work for GSoC" is rarely an issue.
:)
-Yaron
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxst...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> This is an idea I proposed for GSoC (as in a topic for a student).
>
> Some links:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects#Multilingual_SemanticMediaWiki
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/46522
>
> I've been trying to create a multilingual semantic mediawiki and found
> it it is not easy nor possible to do it properly right now. Since I am
> a developer of Translate extension I started thinking that these two
> could be integrated.
>
> There are multiple parts to reaching the end goal, and I can think of
> at least three clearly separate ones:
>
> 1) Multilingual forms
> Idea: When creating a form, you could choose to create a multilingual
> form. In place of field labels there would be {{int:prefix-fieldname}}
> calls that would pull translated version. Same for buttons and other
> elements. The special page creating the form would also create all
> necessary MediaWiki:prefix-fieldname messages having the default text.
>
> This all can be done with plain MediaWiki. But it gets more useful if
> integrated with the Translate extension [1]. SemanticForms can
> register the group of messages belonging to the form as a message
> group in Translate. Then it could be translated like anything else
> with the translation editor, have statistics etc. Together with the
> UniversalLanguageSelector [2] extension the users will see translation
> version of the form in their language if it is available.
>
> Some examples of this done manually: [3][4]
>
> 2) Multilingual templates
> The same can be done for the templates that display the semantic properties
>
> 3) Multilingual properties
> The names of properties could also be translated in similar way. The
> names are displayed on various places: special pages, query results,
> page names etc.
>
>
> The three things above wont solve the problem of handling multilingual
> content as values of semantic properties, but nevertheless it would be
> great help to provide multilingual interface to the data.
>
> Questions:
> * Is anyone willing to co-mentor this project with me? We have a
> potential student for it.
> * Any implementation blockers or flaws in this idea? Is this too much
> or too little for GSoC?
> * Do you like the idea?
>
> [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Translate
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector
> [3]
> http://tieteentermipankki.fi/mediawiki/index.php?title=Lomake:K%C3%A4site&action=edit
> [4]
> http://tieteentermipankki.fi/wiki/Toiminnot:K%C3%A4%C3%A4nn%C3%A4?group=wiki-form-concept
>
> -Niklas
>
>
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