Hoi, The integration of lexical content is not planned for some time yet. This is very much an issue that is lexical / lexicographic in nature. Thanks, GerardM
On 9 May 2014 12:16, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > Hi, > > I am at a the Multilingual Web Workshop in Madrid. I had a discussion here > with a person who specializes in multilingual terminology translation about > how Wikipedia and its sister sites can be more useful and reliable for > people who search for translations of terms from different professional > fields - medicine, communications, law, etc. > > For example, if you go to the Wikipedia article [[Aorta]], how can you > know that this term is actually recognized as the English term by any > professional medical associations? And if you go to > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q101004 , how can you know the same things > about each of the translations of this term? For example, how do you know > that "Srdcovnica" is recognized as a Slovak term by any medical association > or linguistic committee? > > By itself, the interlanguage link to Slovak is not reliable. A translator > to Slovak can, of course, go to a website of a relevant linguistic > committee and check the term there. But can it be more direct and > machine-readable? > > A property could probably be created, which would hold an id of a term in > such a terminology database, but would it be appropriate to include it in > an item page, given that such information is language-specific? It seems > reasonable to me, but I wanted to make sure that everybody find it > acceptable. > > And if there are such properties already, I'd love an example :) > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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