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Integrate Lexemes to Wiktionary

Description of issue

Hello! We need to integrate lexemes into Wiktionary. For example, there is a lexeme in Wikidata that cannot be found using a search engine on the Internet. (d:Lexeme:L600000)

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-- Сергій Липко (talk) 18:52, 26 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Сергій Липко, New year's Greetings to you! Lexemes is indeed a very big topic and I'm excited to see what happens with it in the coming year(s). In regards to your comment, I was able to find a link from Page 1 of Google SERPs to the Lexeme in question (d:Lexeme:L600000) when searching by it's L# or its Lemma (заклепковий), but maybe that's because my search term is so specific? I'd be happy to discuss this further with you, oh and apologies this reply is so late in coming to you! Thank you, -- Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 12:22, 8 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Danny Benjafield (WMDE) thank you, I also saw it on Google. I believe that lexemes should help Wiktionary, and not just transfer words from Wiktionary to Wikidata lexemes. Wiktionary looks better visually for reading.--Сергій Липко (talk) 01:03, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Сергій Липко, thanks for elaborating further! Do you think the Lexemes functions should be moved / hosted on Wiktionary? And do let us know if you have any ideas or feedback on how Wikidata could be used to enhance or help Wiktionary and your workflows! Thanks again, -- Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 09:24, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Danny Benjafield (WMDE) I think lexemes should be integrated into Wiktionary as a template, like d:Q6249834 in Wikipedia, or use a Wikifunction to create a sentence.--Сергій Липко (talk) 00:38, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dear @Сергій Липко, I spoke with some of the Wikidata team here and they forwarded me the following information, I hope it is useful to you and your Wiktionary project.

...one missing feature was the ability to access and use the data from Wikidata’s Lexicographical Data on the other Wikimedia projects via Lua modules. This feature has been requested for a long time by editors, and after a test phase on a few Wiktionaries, we are happy to announce that Lua access to Wikidata Lexeme will be enabled on June 21st (2022) on all Wikimedia projects.
Practically, Lua access means that we created some new Lua functions that will allow you to integrate Lexemes, Forms and Senses from Wikidata on any of the pages of any Wikimedia wiki.

Among many possibilities that this feature offers, you will be able to create for example: conjugation or declination tables, stubs of Wiktionary entries, tools displaying the meaning of a word on Wikisource, and many other things, depending on what your project needs.

Until someone on your project writes a Lua module that makes use of these new functions and then uses this module on a page, nothing changes for your project.

In order to use it, people with experience with Lua modules and templates can look at *the documentation [Lexeme Documentation]> listing the available functions*.

You can also have a look at simple example showing the singular and plural forms of an English noun: [Template], [Module] , [Result].
— Léa Lacroix, Wikimedia HyperKitty Mail Archiver 20.06.2022

Further information and discussion can be found at the Wikidata:Wiktionary project page. Kind regards, --Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 10:55, 22 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Danny Benjafield (WMDE) thank you very much for the information!--Сергій Липко (talk) 23:04, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

My pleasure. Please let me know if this helps, or if there is no-one available to write Lua module for your Wiki.--Danny Benjafield (WMDE) (talk) 10:15, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]