Hoi, Or we could revisit the notion of the "defined meaning" it is at the basis of OmegaWiki, a predecessor to Wikidata and developed with lexical data in mind. Thanks, GerardM

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 20:19, Yuri Astrakhan yuriastrakhan@gmail.com wrote:

There has been a number of discussions about translations. At the moment, the whole situation is very similar to the original interwiki (sitelink) issue -- a lexeme in each language has to point to corresponding lexemes in all other languages. This issue was actually what started Wikidata in the first place :). On one hand, lexemes could just point to Q-items, except that many lexemes do not represent "a concept" (WD requirement), but could be something else like adjective. Also, there is a problem of transitivity

• a word in EN translates to FR which translates to HU, but EN might not

correspond to HU (I do not know any examples of this, and this could be a made-up issue that could be solved via other means, just like with interwikis). Or we could create a new Wikidata namespace "Sense", and all lexemes will use that.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jo winfixit@gmail.com wrote:

...

I tried adding translations to Wikidata Lexemes. First I had to add senses to 2 Lexemes and then I had to add translation statements to those.

I hope I did it right. Not even sure of that. If I did it right, then I'd like to say that this is way too complicated.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L21957 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L9286

And I had to do it twice, to get the translation to work in both directions. The worst is though, that after having done this, they show translation: L21957-S1

Which is rather useless. Why can't the Lexeme be shown instead? And then I mean the text version, not its L-number.

Polyglot

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 5:26 PM Léa Lacroix lea.lacroix@wikimedia.de wrote:

...

*Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.* Events https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Events

• Past: Wikidata et Wiktionnaire

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConvention_francophone/2019/Programme/Wikidata_et_Wiktionnaire_:_retour_sur_un_%C3%A9chec_annonc%C3%A9 session at the French-speaking WikiConvention by Pamputt https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pamputt (slides https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikidata_et_Wiktionnaire_-_retour_sur_un_%C3%A9chec_annonc%C3%A9_Wikiconvention2019.pdf )

• Upcoming: WikidataWednesday in Vienna

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Vienna/WikidataWednesday, September 18th

• Upcoming: Wikidata meetup in Paris

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Events/Paris, September 20th

• Upcoming: #4 Wikidata tea party/第4回 ウィキデータ茶話会

https://www.facebook.com/events/2456357704647897/, 20 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

• Upcoming: Wikibase Workshop/ウィキベースワークショップ

https://peatix.com/event/1301388/, 28 Sep 2019 in Tokyo, Japan

Press, articles, blog posts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Press_coverage

• Wikidata gets wordier

https://magazine.multilingual.com/previewissue/sept-oct-2019/wikidata-gets-wordier/, by Christian Lieske and Felix Sasaki on Multilingual

• *Non-Parametric Class Completeness Estimators for Collaborative

Knowledge Graphs -- The Case of Wikidata https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.01109.pdf* - Michael Luggen, , et al.

Tool of the week

• Hauki https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Vesihiisi/Hauki lets

you browse existing Lexemes, add Senses to them, and easily create new Lexemes for common languages and lexical categories.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

• мир (L99999) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L99999

(peace), мир (100000) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L100000 (world/earth) and L166666 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L166666 were created

Did you know?

• Newest properties

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ListProperties: - General datatypes: cumulative elevation gain https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7297, climbing route https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7309 - External identifiers: Lower Austrian Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7296, Auckland Museum ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7298, MUBI film ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7299, MUBI person ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7300, Al-Jazeera topic ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7301, Digital Giza ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7302, Grammy Awards artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7303, Highland Historic Environment Record ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7304, Online PWN Encyclopedia https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7305, Downdetector ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7306, TOP500 System ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7307, National Wildlife Refuge Trails ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7308, Maine Trail Finder ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P7310

• New property proposals

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Property_proposal to review: - General datatypes: Masters Thesis https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Masters_Thesis, OFLC classification (New Zealand) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/OFLC_classification_(New_Zealand), worn by https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/worn_by, station type, interchange, status, first, last and so on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/station_type,_interchange,_status,_first,_last_and_so_on, front and backside https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/front_and_backside - External identifiers: Archnet Site ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Archnet_Site_ID, Trail Finder ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Trail_Finder_ID, ExplorePaTrails ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ExplorePaTrails_ID, code DANE https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/code_DANE, ICD-11 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/ICD-11, SMHI drainage basin ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/SMHI_drainage_basin_ID, Letteraturaitaliana.net author ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Letteraturaitaliana.net_author_ID, NMM artist ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NMM_artist_ID, Pathway Ontology ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Pathway_Ontology_ID, Mixer game ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Mixer_game_ID, Vudu video ID https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Vudu_video_ID

• Query examples:
  • Number of times a Wikidata item for Carl von Linnaeus was
  created https://w.wiki/8Tb
  • Picture of species were the author(s) of the first scientific
  description is in WD and connected to Uppsala University Alvin database https://w.wiki/8TM
  • same query but where we miss a picture in Wikidata
  https://w.wiki/8TQ
  • Twins with different places of birth https://w.wiki/8TX (
  source https://twitter.com/WikidataFacts/status/1172905478902505472)
  • Places in Scottish local government areas https://w.wiki/8TY (
  source https://twitter.com/Tagishsimon/status/1172506297985654784)
  • Libraries in Austria https://w.wiki/8Ta (source
  https://twitter.com/LibrErli/status/1171748646980902912)
• Schema examples:
  • space probe https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E119
  • Tsunami https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E115
• Newest WikiProjects

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:WikiProjects: Textile arts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Textile_arts, Dark https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Dark

Development

• Started working on two new projects: improving the resource loader

module https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/4268 and tainted references https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/4242

• Wikidata Bridge: save the Wikidata edit when submitting (

phab:T226999 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226999)

• Show the label for the Property instead of the id (phab:T227759

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227759)

• Warn user about blank edit summary on EntitySchema (phab:T230399

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230399)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/4RotIcw5oINo/#R. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/71/query/zfiRgTnZF7zu/?filter=zfiRgTnZF7zu&order=priority.

Monthly Tasks

• Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed

above.

• Comment on property proposals: all open proposals

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Overview

• Suggested and open tasks

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contribute/Suggested_and_open_tasks !

• Contribute to a Showcase item

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Showcase_items .

• Help translate

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:LanguageStats or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!

• Help merge identical items

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pasleim/projectmerge across Wikimedia projects.

• Help write the next summary!

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/Next

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