There has been a number of discussions about translations. At the moment, the whole situation is very similar to the original interwiki (sitelink) issue -- a lexeme in each language has to point to corresponding lexemes in all other languages. This issue was actually what started Wikidata in the first place :).  On one hand, lexemes could just point to Q-items, except that many lexemes do not represent "a concept" (WD requirement), but could be something else like adjective. Also, there is a problem of transitivity - a word in EN translates to FR which translates to HU, but EN might not correspond to HU (I do not know any examples of this, and this could be a made-up issue that could be solved via other means, just like with interwikis). Or we could create a new Wikidata namespace "Sense", and all lexemes will use that.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jo <winfixit@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried adding translations to Wikidata Lexemes. First I had to add senses to 2 Lexemes and then I had to add translation statements to those.

I hope I did it right. Not even sure of that. If I did it right, then I'd like to say that this is way too complicated.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L21957  

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L9286 

And I had to do it twice, to get the translation to work in both directions. The worst is though, that after having done this, they show 

translation:  L21957-S1

Which is rather useless. Why can't the Lexeme be shown instead? And then I mean the text version, not its L-number.

Polyglot

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 5:26 PM Léa Lacroix <lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events

• Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt (slides)
• Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna, September 18th
• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris, September 20th
• Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan
• Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

Press, articles, blog posts

• Wikidata gets wordier, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual
• Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata - Michael Luggen, , et al.

Tool of the week

• Hauki lets you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• мир (L99999) (peace), мир (100000) (world/earth) and L166666 were created

Did you know?

• Newest properties:
  • General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain, climbing route
  • External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID, Auckland Museum ID, MUBI film ID, MUBI person ID, Al-Jazeera topic ID, Digital Giza ID, Grammy Awards artist ID, Highland Historic Environment Record ID, Online PWN Encyclopedia, Downdetector ID, TOP500 System ID, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID, Maine Trail Finder ID
• New property proposals to review:
  • General datatypes: Masters Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand), worn by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on, front and backside
  • External identifiers: Archnet Site ID, Trail Finder ID, ExplorePaTrails ID, code DANE, ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID, NMM artist ID, Pathway Ontology ID, Mixer game ID, Vudu video ID
• Query examples:
  • Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was created
  • Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database
  • same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
  • Twins with different places of birth (source)
  • Places in Scottish local government areas (source)
  • Libraries in Austria (source)
• Schema examples:
  • space probe
  • Tsunami
• Newest WikiProjects: Textile arts, Dark

Development

• Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader module and tainted references
• Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (phab:T226999)
• Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759)
• Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
• Suggested and open tasks!
• Contribute to a Showcase item.
• Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
• Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
• Help write the next summary!

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Léa Lacroix
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