Fnielsen added a comment.
I suppose this issue was inspired by the discussion after Lydia's talk at WikidataCon 2019: https://media.ccc.de/v/wikidatacon2019-2-wikidata_and_languages#t=2788 . I have now gone back to see how I actually handle there situations for Danish. It is not possible to add two "Spelling variant"s with the same language code, e.g., "da". I get "It is not possible to enter multiple representations with the same spelling variant." For the Danish word "aften" https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L34765 I see that I have put in two forms like the English octopus case above for the case with variants with the same grammatical features. In Danish dictionaries, the variants can be indicated with parentheses, e.g., "aft(e)ner", "aft(e)nerne", see https://dsn.dk/?retskriv=aften I now see that the different variants need different property values. Hyphenation might be different and pronounciation may (perhaps controversially) be different: afnen aft‧nen, aftenen af‧ten‧en and aftnen "Afd$n@n (SAMPA), aftenen "Af$d@$n@n. "Describe in" and "Attested in" could be other properties where the property values should be different. So such Danish variants cannot/should not(!?) be represented by what Wikibase regards as "Spelling variant"s. And so I guess that the Wikibase structure is ok'ish for Danish (and the Norwegian "parameter" example) with the help of the octopus trick. Perhaps a property could be created that links forms that a spelling variants, e.g., the different forms of parameter, octopus and aften. --- A slightly different issue arises for the words mor/moder and far/fader (mother and father in Danish). Here mor and moder should probably be regarded as two separate lexemes, - one (mor) that is derived as a short form of the other (moder). However, their plural forms are the same (mødre=mødre), so now there are two "mødre" forms: L36819-F3=L184691-F3 TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236593 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Fnielsen Cc: Ijon, daniel, Asaf, Mahir256, Danmichaelo, Fnielsen, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Denny, Lydia_Pintscher, jeblad, jhsoby, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Mringgaard, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Darkdadaah, Mbch331
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