On Thu, Apr 6, 2017, 16:16 Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > - use Q-Items instead of UserLanguageCodes for Multilingual texts (which
> > would be quite a migration)
>
> I foresee that might be a bit of a problem for external tools consuming
> this data - how they would figure out what language it is if it's
> doesn't have a code? We could of course generate fake codes like
> mis-x-q12345, maybe that would work.
>

Q-items for languages already have a property to state their language code.
It's just an extra hop away.



> > I don't think restricting Wiktionary4Wikidata support to the list of
> > languages with a UserLanguageCode is a viable solution, which would
> > happen if we implement the data model as currently suggested, if I
> > understand it correctly.
>
> Aren't we limiting it right now this way in Wikidata?
>

For labels and descriptions of items yes, and I think that was sensible. It
might be time to revisit that decision though.

But for supporting Wiktionary that would be extremely limiting. French
Wiktionary supports words in more than a thousand languages currently.
Limiting the supported languages of the lemmas is, IMHO, unacceptable.


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