Thanks, Gerard, for your comprehensive
draft.
I didn’t notice anything which I would
like to add, subtract or change. (And I really liked your crafty no-consonant
alliteration in the URL achieved by the deletion of one single L ;-)
Thanks again,
Oliver
From:
Gerard Meijssen [mailto:gerard.meijssen@gmail.com]
Sent: 04 November 2013 14:44
To:
Cc: Lydia Pintscher; Siebrand
Mazeland; Erik Moeller; Alolita Sharma
Subject: [Langcom] Language
eligibility and Wikidata
Hoi,
In the language committee we have agreed that any iso-639-3 language
may be eligible for adding labels in Wikidata. This will open up Wikidata as a
source in its own right and it will allow for searching images and Wikipedia
articles in other languages.
There are technical considerations that need to be sorted. Particularly
the method whereby languages are enabled within the Wikimedia Foundation. I
have created a concept [1] for a blogpost announcing this decision.It has
already been read by Amir so it can be safely read on
One of the reasons for this is an old request by Erik to look into
making it easier for languages to find their way into WMF. It is likely that
one minority language will get its data into Wikidata when this policy is
enacted.
Thanks,
Gerard