Love it! 2013/8/7, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]>: > I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to > write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link, > below is the intro to the proposal: > > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia> > > I tried to anticipate some possible questions and provide answers on the > page. Besides that, I obviously hope that Wikimania could provide a place > to start this conversation. And yes, I am aware that the proposal would > lead to a very restrictive solution, but imagine what good it already could > achieve! And since it is not meant to replace anything, but enrich our > current projects... well, read for yourself. > > Cheers, > Denny > > > Wikipedia provides knowledge in more than 200 languages. Whereas a small > number of languages are fortunate enough to have a large Wikipedia, many of > the language editions are far away from providing a comprehensive > encyclopedia by any measure. There are several approaches towards closing > this gap, mostly focusing on increasing the number of contributors to the > small language editions or to improve the provision of automatic or > semi-automatic translations of articles. Both are viable. In the following > we present a proposal for a different approach, which is based on the idea > of multilingual Wikipedia. > > Imagine a small extension to the template system, where a template call > like *{{F12}}* would not be expanded by a call to the template > Template:F12, but rather to Template:F12/en, i.e. the template name with > the selected language code of the reader of the page. A template call such > as *{{F12:Q64|Q5519|Q183}}* can be expanded by Template:F12/en into *“Berlin > is the capital of Germany.”* and by Template:F12/de into *“Berlin ist die > Hauptstadt Deutschlands.”* (in the example, the template parameters Q5119, > Q64 and Q183 refer to the Wikidata items for capital, Berlin and Germany > respectively, which the templates query for the label in the respective > language). Sentence by sentence could be created in order to provide for a > simple article. > > That wiki would consist of *content*, i.e. the article pages, possibly just > a simple series of template calls, and *frames*, i.e. the templates that > lexicalize the parameters of a given template call into a sentence (Note > that “sentence” here should not be considered literally. It could be a > table, an image, anything). The implementation of the frames can be done in > normal wiki template syntax, in Lua, in a novel mechanism, or a mix of > these. This would be up to the communities creating them. > > Read the rest here: > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia> > > -- > Project director Wikidata > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin > Tel. +49-30-219 158 26-0 | http://wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter > der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für > Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
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