Forgive me, but at the 2014 WikiCon in Cologne, I saw a talk that would see Wiktionary converted to a separate wikibase installation, collapsing all the wikitionary languages into items. THAT could reasonably be linked to Wikidata, or "just" cross-references via properties.

Trying to wedge the current links into Wikidata seems like a failing proposition.

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:58 AM Ricordisamoa <ricordisamoa@openmailbox.org> wrote:
Hi Denny,
I would strongly advise against connecting Wiktionary to Wikidata in the status quo, mainly for the reasons Gerard summarized.
While wikt's 'data model' probably makes sense for a spelling-based dictionary, it does not for a concept-based knowledge base like ours.
Even turning Wiktionary into an OmegaWiki-like project seems unlikely feasible without an intermediate step.
Let's focus on Commons, OpenStreetMap, queries, arbitrary access, new datatypes?


Il 07/05/2015 04:54, Denny Vrandečić ha scritto:
It is rather clear that everyone wants Wikidata to also support Wiktionary, and there have been plenty of proposals in the last few years. I think that the latest proposals are sufficiently similar to go for the next step: a break down of the tasks needed to get this done.

Currently, the idea of having Wikidata supporting Wiktionary is stalled because it is regarded as a large monolithic task, and as such it is hard to plan and commit to. I tried to come up with a task break-down, and discussed it with Lydia and Daniel, and now, as said in the last office hour, here it is for discussion and community input.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development/Proposals/2015-05

I think it would be really awesome if we would start moving in this direction. Wiktionary supported by Wikidata could quickly become one of the crucial pieces of infrastructure for the Web as a whole, but in particular for Wikipedia and its future development.

Cheers,
Denny
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