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-circuits-and-electronics-spring-2007/ 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:AboutTopic?entityid=Q131074
> * 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.
>
> Cheers
> Lydia
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