Community Wishlist/Wishes/Insert attestation using Wikisource as a corpus
Description
Wiktionaries definitions relies on attestations, sentences from corpora illustrating the usages and meanings of words.
Wikisource is an excellent corpus for Wiktionaries, especially for classic uses, but it is actually tedious to search into the texts for a specific word, with a lot of false positive. Then, the reference of the sentence had to be copy/paste and edited in detail. It is a long and boring way to contribute, the result being very few quotation in Wiktionaries come from Wikisources (less than 3 % for French Wiktionary).
This idea is inspired by Insert media but targeting Wikisource instead of Wikimedia Commons.
So, instead of an snippet search offering pictures, Insert attestation may display a list of sentences from a targeted Wikisource (could be same language or other than the source project) that include the targeted sequence of characters.
Their is no meaning requirement nor proximity, the need is for exact results only to keep it simple.
In the displayed snippet of results, an editor would just grab a sentence with a single click and it will be added with the adequate sources picked from Wikidata associated with the Wikisource page.
This function would copy the sentence. It is not a transclusion. Also copy the source of the sentence (adding the information for the number of the page in the original manuscript optimally, i.e. "chapter 5, page 35.").
This feature may need a specific parser to identify limits of sentences and to bold the targeted sequence of characters.
Assigned focus area
Unassigned.
Type of wish
Feature request
Related projects
Wiktionary, Wikisource
Affected users
Readers of Wiktionaries would find more examples of usages and a way to access the whole source directly in Wikisource. Editors of Wiktionaries would have a fancy and enjoyable way to add attestations similarly as Insert media tool that dig into Wikimedia Commons, and the community may grow with new people that like to add sentences from their readings. Editors of Wikisource would have a new way to shed light on their sisyphean work of copy-editing books. Both projects visibility would increase in search engines with more links between them. The audience of both projects may increase with more connectivity. Also, other projects may benefit from this feature, such as Wikipedia to add quotations in authors' pages.