\o/ On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 6:18 AM Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintsc...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Hey everyone :) > > Wiktionary is our third-largest sister project, both in term of active > editors and readers. It is a unique resource, with the goal to provide > a dictionary for every language, in every language. Since the > beginning of Wikidata but increasingly over the past months I have > been getting more and more requests for supporting Wiktionary and > lexicographical data in Wikidata. Having this data available openly > and freely licensed would be a major step forward in automated > translation, text analysis, text generation and much more. It will > enable and ease research. And most importantly it will enable the > individual Wiktionary communities to work more closely together and > benefit from each other’s work. > > With this and the increased demand to support Wikimedia Commons with > Wikidata, we have looked at the bigger picture and our options. I am > seeing a lot of overlap in the work we need to do to support > Wiktionary and Commons. I am also seeing increasing pressure to store > lexicographical data in existing items (which would be bad for many > reasons). > > Because of this we will start implementing support for Wiktionary in > parallel to Commons based on our annual plan and quarterly plans. We > contacted several of our partners in order to get funding for this > additional work. I am happy that Google agreed to provide funding > (restricted to work on Wikidata). With this we can reorganize our team > and set up one part of the team to continue working on building out > the core of Wikidata and support for Wikipedia and Commons and the > other part will concentrate on Wiktionary. (To support and to extend > our work around Wikidata with the help of external funding sources was > our plan in our annual plan 2016: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016_round1/Wikimedia_Deutschland_e.V./Proposal_form#Financials:_current_funding_period > ) > > As a next step I’d like us all to have another careful look at the > latest proposal at > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development. It has > been online for input in its current form for a year and the first > version is 3 years old now. So I am confident that the proposal is in > a good shape to start implementation. However I’d like to do a last > round of feedback with you all to make sure the concept really is > sane. To make it easier to understand there is now also a pdf > explaining the concept in a slightly different way: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_for_Wiktionary_announcement.pdf > Please do go ahead and review it. If you have comments or questions > please leave them on the talk page of the latest proposal at > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Wiktionary/Development/Proposals/2015-05 > . > I’d be especially interested in feedback from editors who are familiar > with both Wiktionary and Wikidata. > > Getting support for Wiktionary done - just like for Commons - will > take some time but I am really excited about the opportunities it will > open up especially for languages that have so far not gotten much or > any technological support. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Product Manager for Wikidata > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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