| ArthurPSmith added a comment. |
I am in general favorable to Micru's proposal, and perhaps Pamputt's elaboration of it above: using wikidata items directly allows representation of the lemma language naturally in the user's own script/language for one, and other automatic bonuses of using items given the structured data ethos etc.. However I'm a little confused about the details of how this would work - specifically, the most commonly used lexemes would usually have the same spelling, use etc. across all variants of a language; do we give that a more general language ("en" = Q1860 say) and only use the specific items mentioned ("en-US" = Q7976, "en-GB" = Q7979, "en-CA" = Q44676, etc.) where there really are variations? Or would it be possible to attach multiple language items to a single lexeme, to indicate it applies to several specific variants?
Cc: ArthurPSmith, Pamputt, Liuxinyu970226, Micru, VIGNERON, Lydia_Pintscher, Lea_Lacroix_WMDE, Aklapper, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Darkdadaah, Mbch331
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