I think that is a great idea. But Wikidata is not suited yet a lexical knowledge base, and I think that would be a necessary precondition for your project.

There is a project plan to make Wikidata suitable to be a lexical knowledge base:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development

And I sure hope that we will hear soon how this will move forward :)

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 8:02 AM Ester Pantaleo <esterpantaleo@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, 

I am writing to get some feedback on an IGE grant proposal I submitted to Wikimedia that might be of interest to the Wikidata community as it aims at building a database from Wiktionary data. 

More specifically the aim of the project is to develop an interactive visualization for etymological relationships using dbnary's extraction-framework (for Wiktionary) 

http://kaiko.getalp.org/about-dbnary/

The data behind the visualization will consist of an RDF database of Wiktionary data (definition, part of speech, synonyms, etc) built using dbnary and a database of etymological relationships built using a custom code (to be integrated into dbnary) that translates Wiktionary textual etymology into a graph database of etymological relationships. 

A demo of my interactive visualization etytree is available here:

http://www.epantaleo.com/2015/12/01/etymology-tree/

The visualization will present - in one graph - the etymology of all words deriving from the same ancestor. Users can expand/collapse the tree to visualize what they are interested in. The textual part attached to the graph can be easily translated in any language and the app would become a multilingual resource. 

I am writing to the Wikidata community because I would like to know if the Wikidata community thinks Wikidata could host this data. This project could help integrate dbnary into a Wikimedia environment and create a database from Wiktionary. In particular, the database of etymological relationships will be available for the community and can be used as a resource to study the history of languages, how pronunciation evolved through time, and eventually how semantics evolved through time.

The link to the grant proposal is 

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary

Feedback is very welcome on the grant proposal page or on the talk page of the grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:IEG/A_graphical_and_interactive_etymology_dictionary_based_on_Wiktionary

Looking forward to read your comments.

Thanks a lot!

Ester Pantaleo

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