Trying again... It's a really important topic for me. How do I go about proposing storing information about templates parameters mapping to the community? I kinda understand how Wikidata works, and it sounds like something that could be implemented using the current properties, but thoughts about moving this forward would be very welcome.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore 2014-09-24 14:18 GMT+03:00 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > TL;DR: Did anybody consider using Wikidata items of Wikipedia templates to > store multilingual template parameters mapping? > > Full explanation: > As in many other projects in the Wikimedia world, templates are one of the > biggest challenges in developing the ContentTranslation extension. > > Translating a template between languages is tedious - many templates are > language-specific, many others have a corresponding template, but > incompatible parameters, and even if the parameters are compatible, there > is usually no comfortable mapping. Some work in that direction was done in > DBpedia, but AFAIK it's far from complete. > > In ContentTranslation we have a simplistic mechanism for mapping between > template parameters in pairs of languages, with proof of concept for three > templates. We can enhance it with more templates, but the question is how > much can it scale. > > Some templates shouldn't need such mapping at all - they should pull their > data from Wikidata. This is gradually being done for infoboxes in some > languages, and it's great. > > But not all templates can be easily mapped to Wikidata data. For example - > reference templates, various IPA and language templates, quotation > formatting, and so on. For these, parameter mapping could be useful, but > doing this for a single language pair doesn't seem robust and reminds me of > the old ways in which interlanguage links were stored. > > So, did anybody consider using Wikidata items of templates to store > multilingual template parameters mapping? > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore >
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