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. > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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