Hi Community!
I've read over the last 2 weeks various previous comments, questions,
concerns about how to best handle Transliterations which are different from
Translations (consensus is to use Senses for Translations)
But for Transliterations, it seems that a general consensus is around using
Forms (as the Lemon model does) to handle this and also make querying
easier I guess.
I'd like to improve the documentation on the wiki pages for Lexicographical
Data Model with a general page on Transliteration concerns. As I
understand it, there are already Language specific pages to deal with
Transliteration and Translation concerns (such as this one for Bengali
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/Languages/bn>
)
My proposal to all here listening is to have a new sub page called
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation/T…
to handle the general documentation effort for that, and where it would
have only a few practical examples to help new users with general Forms
entry of Transliterations, and taking example from this section of the
Lemon model cookbook on Phonetics:
https://lemon-model.net/lemon-cookbook.pdf#subsubsection.2.1.2
The proposed Transliteration page would also have a link from the main doc
page in the Forms section (see my placeholder in the Form section now
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexicographical_data/Documentation#Form>)
Thoughts?
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/