Re: [Wikidata] Integrating WordNet in Wikidata Lexicographical Data - Wikidata

14 Apr 2019

Dear Mr.,
I thank you for your answer. I see. However, there are several public domain ontologies
that can be added to Wikidata like Onto.PT.
Yours Sincerely,
Houcemeddine Turki (he/him)
Medical Student, Faculty of Medicine of Sfax, University of Sfax, Tunisia
Undergraduate Researcher, UR12SP36
GLAM and Education Coordinator, Wikimedia TN User Group
Member, WikiResearch Tunisia
Member, Wiki Project Med
Member, WikiIndaba Steering Committee
Member, Wikimedia and Library User Group Steering Committee
Co-Founder, WikiLingua Maghreb
Founder, TunSci
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-------- Message d'origine --------
De : Darren Cook &lt;darren(a)dcook.org&gt;
Date : 2019/04/14 22:06 (GMT+01:00)
À : wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Objet : Re: [Wikidata] Integrating WordNet in Wikidata Lexicographical Data

...
  I thank you for your answer. I invite to read the
copyright statement of WordNet:

 Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and database and
 its documentation for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted,
 provided that you agree to comply with the following copyright notice and
 statements, including the disclaimer, and that the same appear on ALL copies of
 the software, database and documentation, including modifications that you make
 for internal use or for distribution.

Everything after "provided that ..." is why you cannot take Wordnet and
import it into Wikidata.

But, because WordNet's license (the English one, and about half the
global wordnet ones [1]) is still a nice liberal one, what end-users can
legally do is use WordNet and Wikidata together in their application.

It is very good to have different sources for the same information, as
it allows that same end user to validate data, and discover mistakes,
whether human error or deliberate vandalism.

Wikidata should (IMHO) be prioritizing making sure it is as easy as
possible to do this. (E.g. producing client libraries to do it; and by
documenting equivalences between alternative data sources.)

Darren

[1]: http://globalwordnet.org/resources/wordnets-in-the-world/

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