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googleknowledge / qlabel

jQuery plugin for creating multilingual websites
https://googleknowledge.github.io/qlabel
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Allow adverbs & adjectives #2

Open pigsonthewing opened 10 years ago

pigsonthewing commented 10 years ago

The food menu example, http://googleknowledge.github.io/qlabel/demo/menu/, uses the adjective "vegetarian", but when translated, that becomes the noun "vegetarianism". qLabel should allow the use of adjectives, and adverbs, perhaps via a switch in the HTML markup, and relying on the forthcoming integration between Wikidata and Wiktionary.

brightbyte commented 10 years ago

Doing this would require Wikidata to function as a dictionary. There is a proposal for this, but we are no where near this functionality: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Wiktionary

Right now, Wikidata can be used as a thesaurus: it gives the you names of things in different languages. That's excellent for labeling maps, for tagging, etc.

Wikidata is not ready to be used for translations or internationalization. That will have to wait until we have proper support for modelling lexical entities.

pigsonthewing commented 10 years ago

@brightbyte Hence: "relying on the forthcoming integration between Wikidata and Wiktionary"!

vrandezo commented 10 years ago

I fully agree with this feature request, and I unfortunately expect that it will stay open for quite a while.