Hi,
TL;DR: Did anybody consider using Wikidata items of Wikipedia templates to
store multilingual template parameters mapping?
Full explanation:
As in many other projects in the Wikimedia world, templates are one of the
biggest challenges in developing the ContentTranslation extension.
Translating a template between languages is tedious - many templates are
language-specific, many others have a corresponding template, but
incompatible parameters, and even if the parameters are compatible, there
is usually no comfortable mapping. Some work in that direction was done in
DBpedia, but AFAIK it's far from complete.
In ContentTranslation we have a simplistic mechanism for mapping between
template parameters in pairs of languages, with proof of concept for three
templates. We can enhance it with more templates, but the question is how
much can it scale.
Some templates shouldn't need such mapping at all - they should pull their
data from Wikidata. This is gradually being done for infoboxes in some
languages, and it's great.
But not all templates can be easily mapped to Wikidata data. For example -
reference templates, various IPA and language templates, quotation
formatting, and so on. For these, parameter mapping could be useful, but
doing this for a single language pair doesn't seem robust and reminds me of
the old ways in which interlanguage links were stored.
So, did anybody consider using Wikidata items of templates to store
multilingual template parameters mapping?
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