Angela wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:10:05 +0100, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Wikidata is a new project... does the community supports this ?
Wikidata itself isn't really a project. It's more of a technical solution to some of the problems on existing projects.
The implementation of Wikidata will obviously need community support -- do Wiktionarians want to merge their projects into the "ultimate Wiktionary", for example -- but I don't think the feature itself should need consensus before its written, only before its implemented on Wikimedia in a way which would affect existing projects.
Angela.
When we have an ultimate wiktionary, it is up to the individuals that make up the wiktionary communities if they want to contribute to the ultimate wiktionary or to the existing language specific wiktionaries. My aim will be to convert the content of the existing wiktionaries in a lossless manner. I expect that the integration of all the languages will provide the synergy that will make it really cool to work on the ultimate wiktionary. Each wiktionary can decide to stop their activity once the data is included into the ultimate wiktionary.
I expect that with the first iteration of the ultimate wiktionary we will learn many lessons. My idea of the database will be to have it relatively simple in database design so that it will be possible to enhance things as we learn what can be done in a better way. Erik's timeline does include the implementation of a thesaurus. This will be based on the GEMET data. A thesaurus is a simplification of what we will have in the ultimate wiktionary but it will show us what we need in a User Interface.
Thanks, GerardM