Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-29 Thread Jan Macura
Hi John, all 2016-07-29 15:54 GMT+02:00 John Erling Blad : > In general this has more implications than simple singular/plural forms of > units. Agreement/concord/congruence is the proper term. In some language > you will even change the form given the distance to the thing you are > measuring or

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-29 Thread Info WorldUniversity
Stas, Thomas, John, Markus, Lydia and Wikidatans, What happens when one develops structured Wiktionary ( https://www.wiktionary.org/), as linked open data for every part of every word and their sounds, perhaps as Qitems in Wikidata, in Wikipedia's 358 languages, and planning for all 7,943 language

[Wikidata] Adding a link to the project when editing an item ?

2016-07-29 Thread Loic Dachary
Hi, Would it be possible to have a link to the project(s) that have a focus on a given topic, when editing an item. For instance (because that's what I'm mostly interested in ;-), it would be useful to have a link to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Informatics/FLOSS whe

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-29 Thread John Erling Blad
In general this has more implications than simple singular/plural forms of units. Agreement/concord/congruence is the proper term. [1] In some language you will even change the form given the distance to the thing you are measuring or counting, even depending on the type of thing you are measuring

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-29 Thread Thomas Douillard
My two cents : this is a job to do in conjunction with structured wiktionary, who will be able to deal with lexical entities. We however have some properties here and there to deal with such languages issues to deal with this inside Wikidata, female form of occupation name for example, but the log

Re: [Wikidata] Grammatical display of units

2016-07-29 Thread Stas Malyshev
Hi! > You mean the MediaWiki message processing code? This would probably be Yes, exactly. > powerful enough for units as well, but it works based on message strings > that look a bit like MW template calls. Someone has to enter such > strings for all units (and languages). This would be doable