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--- Comment #5 from jeb...@gmail.com ---
There is a glossary at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary
It has existed from almost the beginning of the localization effort. It has
although becoming a bit sloppy in some of the descriptions, it could need a
cleanup.
A real problem with glossaries like this is that there is not one but several
mental models, and they does not match up very well. You have the mental model
of the developer which has his own idea which is often a very technical one.
The you have the localization teams that tries to interpret the technical ideas
in the local language, often with only the internationalized message as a clue
to what the developer is trying to express. Then you have the actual user
trying to interpret the localized messages, and often introducing his own (or
her) own misinterpretations. To make the interpretations match up, and produce
the same mental model, is a non-trivial task.
Add to this that Wikibase uses its own lingo that doesn't follow the usual
semantic/linked data lingo, and you are in for some real problems.
Fix up the glossary, and use it while writing the messages and the
descriptions. The descriptions are very important as they conceptualize the
developers idea and lets the localization teams recreate their mental models.
That reduce the chance for translation errors, thereby they will better
communicate the correct mental model to the user.
Sorry, to long, just cleanup the glossary.
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