AFIK, Dario did a proposal in that regard some time ago:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/DataNamespace

No idea what is the current status. Maybe you could ask him?

Cheers,
Micru


On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Andrea Zanni <[email protected]>wrote:

> Dear all,
> volcanic User:Alex brollo is working on "dictionaries", aka generating
> lists of used words in Pages and works.
> For example:
> https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Discussioni_pagina:Il_cavallarizzo.djvu/2,
> as a list of the book Il cavallarizzo.
>
> I bet that in the next few years (with more books, more users, Wikidata,
> and the world domination led by Wikisource) we would have more and more of
> these experiments.
> A list of used words of an ancient book could help customize OCR and tools
> for typo corrections, for example.
>
> Moreover, we will have Wikidata, and maybe we will need to store some
> metadata (eg page numbers, or metadata about images and scans) into
> Wikisource.
> Lua could help us build tools for creating automatic indexes, or textual
> version in ns0 (eg precompile the pagelist tag...)
>
> So,
> the question is: want we Wikisource communities a new Data namespace?
> How do you like the idea? Would you want to have the Wikibase extension in
> it, or just a normal namespace?
>
> I'm sure you will find this mail confusing, but I think we are in the need
> of something,
> I just don't know what it is :-)
>
>
> Aubrey
>
>
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