| Psychoslave added a comment. |
So to answer a few questions I received in feedback to this ticket:
- The reason for this tickets:
- enable better sharing and coordination between linguistic versions, including
- translations of definition
- sharing the base of samples showing use of words linked to a specific definition
- sharing etymologies written in prose (as opposed to explicit etymological relational trees)
- bring more flexibility to reuse definitions inside Wikimedia wikis, allowing to show the same definition at several places/in different manners.
- An example would be to create glossaries that gather on a single page terms and definitions of a topic, reusing the same definitions that are on each term page, restricted to those pertaining the topic.
- An other possible use would be to have not only the lemma article having definitions, but also each inflections as long as the definition holds, while only displaying examples of use that pertains to the queried form.
- this are only examples, possibilities of use are open, and this specific possibilities are only illustrative, in any case communities decide what and how they want to use.
- ease the use by external projects (through a query service, an unified structured downloadable dump, etc.)
- we can't import definition of Wiktionaries in Wikidata due to license incompatibility, but this won't be a problem with a separated instance using an appropriate license, so we can benefit of both the power and flexibility of Wikibase and the already large knowledge base of Wiktionaries together
- enable better sharing and coordination between linguistic versions, including
- Focus of efforts and resources
- with such a project, existing community wouldn't have to change anything if they don't want, but would have the possibility to do so
- it would allow to more easily share data across linguistic versions
- it would allow to develop nicer interfaces on top of such a Wikibase instance, including within the Wikitionaries, but also in Toolforge for example, while having the whole resulting data base accessible from everywhere in the Wikimedia infrastructure per query facilities
- that means possibilities to create more easy to use interfaces, and lowering the barrier to start contributing
- the ticket is about a single Wikibase instance, dedicated to definition materials
- it's not about one instance for each existing Wikitionary
- the same result can not be reached through downstream structuration like Dbnary et GLAWI but both could possibly be used to populate the Wikibase instance
Thank you for those that already pointed lake in my initial demand, I hope it helps to clarify a bit.
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