Thank you, Anders. Yes, I published the idea in order to garner feedback and further evolve it. It is by no means ready-perfect-finished, it is rather really just a first draft. So suggestions, constructive critique, and improvements are obviously extremely welcome. --~~~~
2013/8/7 Anders Wennersten <m...@anderswennersten.se> > Thanks for sharing your very interesting ideas. While I am not fully > support your idea of implementation, I share your basic view of the need > and think some of the concepts you introduce has a very high potential to > better utilize the power of us having many versions. > > I have put in my feedback on the talkpage and hope there will be a > possibility to evolve this concept further in some type of workgroup. I > also see an interesting relation to the talk of machine translation where I > believe we can do a lot very quickly if we limit the vocabulary to be > included in such a tool > > Anders > > > Denny Vrandečić skrev 2013-08-07 02:20: > >> 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<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<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia> >> > >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.**org <Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l>, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@**lists.wikimedia.org<wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org> > ?subject=**unsubscribe> > -- 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 Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
