Gustav Vella wrote:

Hi Erik and Gerard,

ok the current documentation : On 5/30/05, Erik Moeller erik_moeller@gmx.de wrote:

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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes

has emphasis on the wikidata concept, which was briefly introduced to me by Magnus.

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2. developing and testing the best possible schema for Ultimate Wiktionary.

seems to be the last point on your roadmap but have you any documentation on a UW schema draft so far? I cant find anything. I'd be particularly interest to know

• Where do you cut an interface between language universal and

language specific schemacomponents? -- are there any guidlines for the language specific schema components?

• Are you working on basis of the EAGLES standard ?

• How are you handling eqivalence lists

• how are you handling semantic fields (fixed categories? vs keyword bag?)

• is there some place other than the mailing list to contribute to the

schema design? somewhere on metawiki?

and finally what are your first opinions on the schema? everything clear? does it fit into your concepts? Do you want me to translate the documentation?

Best regards from Cologne

Gustav

Hoi Gustav, At this moment we have not identified for ourselves many language specific components. What we have identified is that a meaning and an etymology are language dependent. I have explicitly NOT published any schema that I could come up with because I find that it is much better to have many schema's and discuss what is needed and why. So far it has proven me right.

The first schema of Ultimate Wiktionary mark 1 may be lacking in some respects. But the idea with UW is to have a base scheme, get acquainted with what we do and ammend it. The base will be base and open for improvements. The idea is to change the scheme on a regular basis based on the experience that we gain and based on the functionality that we want.

At this moment in time we are building up to the moment where we DO start talking schema's in earnest. So if you have proposals as to an EAGLES standard the handling of equivalence lists semantic fields this is the time to propose.

Please publish on META and use the category "Wiktionary"

Thanks, GerardM