Lucie, Lydia and Wikidatans,
You really are "making true on one of Wikidata's biggest promises" and re https://twitter.com/nightrose/status/730487692794970113 too. This is so great, and especially concerning far-reaching translation, including possibly a Universal Translator it would seem, eventually.
Are there placeholders already for all 7,943+ languages in Glottolog - http://glottolog.org/glottolog/language - for example, or in a parallel ISO 639 list - https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php? Are there any Wikidata plans for "simply" populating such a list with Wikidata/Wikibase "ecosystem entities" using machine processes? Where would we find please a possible beginning all-languages' "placeholder" list?
In what ways could CC World University and School (which we donated to Wikidata last autumn) upon adding CC MIT OCW in 7 languages into CC Wikidata/Wikibase best translate a MIT OCW course page (e.g. http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-002... which is already in Spanish and Portuguese) eventually into Odia or Haitian Creole, for example? Might a system of placeholders emerge for such?
Thank you, and cheers, Scott
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Fantastic work!
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On 12 May 2016 at 06:45, Biyanto Rebin biyanto.rebin@wikimedia.or.id wrote:
Yeay,
Goodluck for Wikidata Team. Looking forward for Indonesian regional language version :)
Regards,
2016-05-12 2:48 GMT+07:00 Lydia Pintscher Lydia.Pintscher@wikimedia.de:
Hi everyone :)
Last year Lucie started working on the ArticlePlaceholder ( https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ArticlePlaceholder) in order
to
fullfill Wikidata's promise of supporting especially the smaller Wikipedias. Today we have rolled it out on the first 4 Wikipedias: Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan and Odia. When someone searches
for a
topic where no local article exists but Wikidata has data we will show
an
ArticlePlaceholder with this information and encourage the reader to
create
an article. I hope this will help these Wikipedias by offering their readers more content and by turning more of them into active editors.
In order for the feature to work well we need labels for items and properties in these languages on Wikidata. A lot exist already but if
you
want to help out you can find items and properties that need labels in these languages at https://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-terminator and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties.
What we rolled out today as usual is a first version. Based on the
feedback
from those 4 Wikipedias we will expand and improve it. One of the next things we will do is add the option to translate an article from another language if it exists using the Content Translation tool and fix known bugs. Things we know are still broken or need work:
- language fallbacks in the properties are not working so you will see a
lot of P1234 and so on until a label is added on Wikidata in that
language
- long identifiers break out of the identifier box on the right side and
don't look good
- right now you only get an ArticlePlaceholder in the search results
when
Wikidata has at least 3 links to other Wikimedia projects and 3
statements.
We might need to tweak this number still based on feedback from the
first
Wikipedias. We limit this in order to not encourage readers to create an article that will be deleted right after they created it because it
isn't
notable.
Here are some example pages:
- Odia:
https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7:...
- Napolitan:
https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speci%C3%A0le:AboutTopic?entityid=Q2613697
- Esperanto:
https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciala%C4%B5o:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
- Haitian Creole:
https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espesyal:AboutTopic?entityid=Q12345
I'm really excited about making true on one of Wikidata's biggest
promises.
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