well I am forwarding my blog here - it si probably not perfect, but a
start of what I have in mind. I just get interrupted all too often.
best, sabine
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Betreff: [words & more] Creating contents for many Wikipedias
Datum: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:41:45 -0700 (PDT)
Von: Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it>
An: sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it
The basis to this is a project about mass contents creation on meta and
Wikidata. Mass contents creation is an idea of user Millosh and yes, he
is right about that - it is how I already did certain stuff for the
Neapolitan wikipedia.
There is so much easy to create contents out there that Wikipedias could
share easily and even if we will not have Wikidata implemented into
wikipedias we can use the data in databases to create stubs by using
Mailmerge (in
OpenOffice.org or Word) and upload them with the bot. (see
my other post of today).
This means: if we now start to add all names of:
continents
countries
cities
rivers
mountains
monuments
places
yes, even streets, because there are some who have translations
lakes
seas
animals
plants
names of people (also these are translated)
etc.
And then we start to translate them. At the same time people care to add
statistical data to a table that is exactly about this (if we cannot do
this with a separate wikidata installation ... anyway we do not need
relational information for now ... just information).
How many articles (stubs) can be created in this way and how many people
can work on it?
We also should not forget about film and book titles, the Greek and
Roman gods (I suppose other parts of the world will have other material
on such tings).
It is really a huge project, but it is feasable ... there are many of us
who have similar goals.
Where to start: well we need the infoboxes translated into as many
languages as possible - and we then need the place names etc.
translated. This must be combined with a datasheet.
Example:
Castua:
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castua
We have the box on the right side with all the statistical/basic
information - all that can be translated into many languages. The first
sentence in the stub will simply be the definition of WiktionaryZ.
So most of it like stato (state), regione (region) etc. can be
translated within WZ and - in that way we can populate the templates
used to all wikis. As for the not "not seen part" of the template I
would use or a lingua franca (English) or simply the same names that are
visible.
There's not much about it - we need the lists to start off with. If we
use the pagefromfile.py to upload the ready pages existing ones with the
same name will be skipped and written in a logfile - these are then the
only ones someone has to look after manually.
If sooner or later we get a pure wikidata application that takes the
translations from WZ and combines them with the rest of the data: that
would be great ... since that would avoid that we need to correct the
entries when there are corrections.
Using the Geoboxes we already have a good way to compare lists ... but
does it make sense to do it that way right now? Or does it make sense to
prepare now all possible translations to be ready once we can have
wikidata for geographical entries?
Hmmm ... I was interrupted quite often while writing this blog ... and I
don't have the time to re-read now. So sorry if things seem to be a bit
mixed up.
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