Hi Jan and Wikidatans,
That sounds about right.
I think the possible number of Wikidata languages (and inter-lingual developments) will emerge as these two projects develop a little further -
RFC: Per-language URLs for multilingual wiki pages - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114662 -
RFC: make Parser::getTargetLanguage aware of multilingual wikis - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114640 -
which I just learned yesterday in the #wikimedia-office hour at 2pm PT (on Wednesdays).
CC World University and School, which is like CC Wikipedia with CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC (and planning online free best STEM CC OCW accrediting university degrees in ~204 countries' main and official languages) is seeking additionally to develop wiki schools for open teaching and learning in all 7,943+ languages building in CC Wikidata/Wikibase, if possible - as well as for an universal translator. How easy ahead will it be to simply "populate" a list of all 8K languages in Wikidata/Wikibase for various artificial intelligence, machine learning and machine translation developments?
Best, Scott http://worlduniversityandschool.org https://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jan Macura macurajan@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
looking into [1] I read that Wikidata supports 358 languages. Is it still true? For example, I tried to add label in language coded as "nan" (defined in ISO 639-3) and it worked. However it didn't worked for e.g. "arb", which is also part of the ISO 639-3 standard. So how many?
Thanks Jan
[1] VRANDEČIĆ, Denny, KRÖTZSCH, Markus. Wikidata: A Free Collaborative Knowledgebase. *Communications of the ACM*. 2014-10, Vol. 57 No. 10, 7885. DOI 10.1145/2629489. http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/10/178785- wikidata/fulltext
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