And likewise, any possibility to integrate these new relational database
software developments out of MIT - "Democratizing databases: With a new
tool, any competent spreadsheet user can construct custom database
interfaces" ... https://news.mit.edu/2016/spreadsheet-databases-0708 - with
Wikidata/Wikibase and the languages Wikidata supports?

Cheers, Scott





On May 29, 2016 10:22 AM, "Davidh" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello discussion list:
>
> I have a need to hire someone familiar with not just a wiki API, as that
> appears simple enough; As I've sent out requests for quotes to pull
> political information through the API to developers, I'm finding the
> outrageous costs involved to be not for the programming skills but because
> of how to efficiently go after the data I want, not to mention the
> countless hours I'm going through to determine a flow chart of links.
>
> I'm looking to pay someone who could stream line this for me. Ideally you
> would know word press and will integrate my portal onto my website.
>
> Thank you in  advance
> David Hahn
> [email protected]
>
>
> On Thursday, May 26, 2016 5:37 PM, Scott MacLeod <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi Jan and Wikidatans,
>
> That sounds about right.
>
> I think the possible number of Wikidata languages (and inter-lingual
> developments) will emerge as these two projects develop a little further -
>
> RFC: Per-language URLs for multilingual wiki pages -
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662 -
>
> RFC: make Parser::getTargetLanguage aware of multilingual wikis -
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114640 -
>
> which I just learned yesterday in the #wikimedia-office hour at 2pm PT (on
> Wednesdays).
>
> CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW
> in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC (and planning online free best STEM CC OCW
> accrediting university degrees in ~204 countries' main and official
> languages) is seeking additionally to develop wiki schools for open
> teaching and learning in all 7,943+ languages building in CC
> Wikidata/Wikibase, if possible - as well as for an universal translator.
> How easy ahead will it be to simply "populate" a list of all 8K languages
> in Wikidata/Wikibase for various artificial intelligence, machine learning
> and machine translation developments?
>
> Best,
> Scott
> http://worlduniversityandschool.org
> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jan Macura <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> looking into [1] I read that Wikidata supports 358 languages. Is it still
> true? For example, I tried to add label in language coded as "nan" (defined
> in ISO 639-3) and it worked. However it didn't worked for e.g. "arb", which
> is also part of the ISO 639-3 standard. So how many?
>
> Thanks
>  Jan
>
> [1] VRANDEČIĆ, Denny, KRÖTZSCH, Markus. Wikidata: A Free Collaborative
> Knowledgebase. *Communications of the ACM*. 2014-10, Vol. 57 No. 10,
> 7885. DOI 10.1145/2629489. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785-
> wikidata/fulltext
>
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