Small Wikipedia Community Sustainability/Wikidata

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Modern language communicative value

See also: Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/Tables and Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/ActionPlan/Linguistic-cultural identity

Presentation Slides (EN) and draft presentation text

“	Artificial life support of whatever unique cultural phenomenon and/or languages and worldviews relied on when it came into being or was later in active use, without proven utility of the latter for addressing current life's practical tasks is no more valuable than worshipping cuneiform or any other historic technology.	”
— Farhad Fatkullin

Imagine a world, where all public and private services, as well as all digital documents are immediately and permanently accessible in all languages of the planet, and one can similarly interact with any other person or any other global Internet of things object. Semantic Web technology is making this real!

Any language structure is a set of various Lexicographical data types.

Wikifunctions will help making any communication language-independent.

This work has matured in Wikimedia Languages of Russia Community volunteers' internal discussions when taking part in both Wikimedia Russia-initiated and global Wikimedia Language Diversity projects. It is summarized and published by Farhad Fatkullin (Kazan, Russia) with special thanks to Renat Shigapov (Germnay) for help with WikibaseCirrusSearch used in data collection, and Paul Kaganer (Saint Petersburg, Russia) for recommendations and support in choosing the topic, critical feedback in the process and proposals for further development of the analysis. First publication and material presentation is planned to take place in Tatar as part of 2nd Russia-wide "Language, Society and Information Technologies" Scientific and Practical Conference (17-18 Feb. 2023).

The following is a proposal to use Quantitative assessment method for evaluating the amount of work necessary to sustainably support any of the languages of Russia at a hypothetical digitally human-stationary orbit. The state of the languages is evaluated using absolute and relative data on Wikidata knowledge base elements' labels and descriptions in respective natural language, as well as lexicographical data used to describe various existing Wiki-functions depicted relationships between them. Analytical Tables below are filled by both statistical data and calculated shares per moment of last query, will be periodically updated.

Thesis

A culture is a non-genetic mean of transferring information, a language is a communicative protocol used within respective unique cultural environment, language speakers (users) are information creation, operative storage and interchange nodes, whilst ongoing interaction of language users is a distributed data processing when generating new knowledge, reorganizing society structure or transformation of its essence (changing approaches in its interaction with the surrounding physico-biological world).

Within such a model, an instrumental function of a standardized working language is in assuring communication speed and precision. In Knowledge-based economy era any subject, object and/or an information product therein is simultaneously participating in a multitude of parallel processes. Long-term viability of a separate natural language (and related cultural knowledge) depends on the level of its support and usage effectiveness of the tool within ever-changing technologic and social environment.

An individual or a community of language speakers will keep investing into preserving respective linguistic competencies, as well as simultaneous continuous development of the communicative protocol in question for as long as it can be effectively used within global ecosystem of added-value creation (contribution into global GDP). Thus long-term global multilingualism preservation is dependent on humanity's transitioning towards technologies allowing language equality within global division of labour based economic cooperation systems..

This is exactly the founding pillar of language-independent Semantic Web (Web 3.0) technology. These opportunities have already been successfully demonstrated:

• since 2012 — Wikidata knowledge base (and other semi-structured data repositories based on independent Wikibase and similar installations, as well as generation of knowledge blocks and demonstration thereof in a target language),
• 2016-2018 transitioning of language description into Lexicographical data format (becoming more and more popular, likely to become a foundation of European language equality, including state and municipal services, etc., aimed to be reached by 2030), and a
• 2020-2023 launch of Wikifunctions, relying on the achievements above (recent 6 language limited pilot has been successfully completed, now getting ready for full production launch).

Unlike other Wikimedia projects, these are published and distributed under the highest degree of legal freedom license (Creative Commons Zero, CC0 - Public Domain). All those interested to contribute into providing reliable long-term sustainability of your favourite languages are invited to join volunteers developing their presence in the systems above!

Statistical Tables

Tables below (except for the comparative example) include languages which satisfy at least one of the two conditions:

• Official Status somewhere within the Russian Federation;
• Majority or a significant share of speakers reside within the territory of Russia.

Attention: ^* marks languages with official status in some administrative-territorial entity of Russia, with majority of its speakers residing outside the Federation's boundaries.

Comparative Analysis Source Data & Example Table

• Total Wikidata elements as of today - 101850730
• Lexemes and other lexigoraphical data by language

Language [[MainPage]]	Code [[Category:]]	Labels number	Labels %	Descriptions number	Descriptions %	Lexemes number	Forms number	Sense number
English	en	86534411	85	84304578	82.8	72561	132029	30160
Arabic	ar	6361419	6.2	51285699	50.4	1384	310	136
Spanish	es	20974374	20.6	43824405	43	30480	352459	10425
Chinese	zh	6317996	6.2	34690543	34.1	4322	4458	3995
Russian	ru	8775094	8.6	39399582	38.7	101554	1238078	12833
French	fr	21394767	21	50751745	49.8	19271	325157	9482
German	de	21147425	20.8	65515077	64.3	213398	550155	10269
Turkish	tr	1980389	1.9	33405809	32.8	225	188	189
Hindi	hi	1185205	1.2	8194601	8	1407	2430	1892
Farsi	fa	2773491	2.7	15532782	15.3	6768	11417	7425

Russian Federation languages with active Wikipedias (34)

Group	Language [[MainPage]]	Code [[Category:]]	Labels number	Labels %	Descriptions number	Descriptions %	Lexemes number	Forms number	Sense number
East Slavic (2)	Russian	ru	8775094	8.62	39399582	38.68	101554	1238078	12833
	Ukrainian*	uk	6093531	5.98	59582944	58.5	16258	507956	283
Turkic (10)	Altai	alt	2247	0	10	0	1	0	1
	Azerbaijani*	az	1041742	1.02	1007804	0.99	28	22	22
	Bashkir	ba	594414	0.58	6570985	6.45	16	3	14
	Crimean Tatar	crh	398457	0.39	530708	0.52	13	10	15
	Chuvash	cv	727163	0.71	786208	0.77	11	1	11
	Kazakh*	kk	936517	0.92	929021	0.91	20	2	18
	Karachay-Balkar	krc	456559	0.45	102963	0.1	2	0	2
	Sakha (Yakut)	sah	475916	0.47	240898	0.24	8	0	8
	Tatar	tt	980788	0.96	6509824	6.39	8	0	8
	Tuvan	tyv	455568	0.45	94971	0.09	5	0	5
Mongolic (2)	Buryat	bxr	457138	0.45	142643	0.14	3	0	3
	Kalmyk	xal	455456	0.45	144964	0.14	12	2	14
Indo-European (3)	Pontic Greek	pnt	453735	0.45	144974	0.14	1	0	1
	Ossetian	os	685107	0.67	808088	0.79	7	1	7
	Yiddish*	yi	677620	0.67	2889421	2.84	276	704	330
Northeast Caucasian (5)	Avar	av	458950	0.45	145011	0.14	6	0	6
	Chechen	ce	990769	0.97	1186533	1.16	10	1	10
	Ingush	inh	456006	0.45	6984	0.01	4	0	4
	Lak	lbe	452758	0.44	2	0	5	0	5
	Lezgian	lez	458967	0.45	103329	0.1	6	0	6
Northwest Caucasian (2)	Kabardian	kbd	455580	0.45	28	0	7	1	7
	Adyghe	ady	451459	0.44	13	0	7	10	7
Finno-Ugric (10)	Finnish*	fi	7274103	7.14	34355848	33.73	636	8383	569
	Permyak	koi	458804	0.45	145570	0.14	6	0	6
	Komi	kv	461827	0.45	344	0	28	36	24
	Moksha	mdf	457818	0.45	181892	0.18	3	0	3
	Meadow-Eastern Mari	mhr	669640	0.66	679351	0.67	3	1	3
	Hill Mari	mrj	464752	0.46	7	0	4	0	4
	Erzya	myv	494156	0.49	31494	0.03	10	2	9
	Livvi-Karelian	olo	469880	0.46	20	0	2	0	2
	Udmurt	udm	459479	0.45	193	0	7	0	7
	Veps	vep	517757	0.51	31895	0.03	15	34	17

Russian Federation languages with Wikipedias in incubator (45)

Group	Language [[MainPage]]	Code [[Category:]]	Labels number	Labels %	Descriptions number	Descriptions %	Lexemes number	Forms number	Sense number
Turkic (10)	Northern Altai	atv	0	0	0	0
	Shor	cjs	0	0	0	0
	Chulym	clw	0	0	0	0
	Dolgan	dlg	0	0	0	0
	Krymchak	jct	0	0	0	0
	Karaim	kdr	0	0	0	0
	Khakas	kjh	0	0	0	0
	Kumyk	kum	153455	0.1507	1	0	1	0	1
	Nogai	nog	0	0	0	0
	Siberian Tatar	sty	153501	0.1507	14	0	1	0	1
Tungusic (3)	Even	eve	0	0	0	0
	Evenki	evn	0	0	0	0
	Nanai	gld	1	0	0	0	3	0	3
Indo-European (2)	Judeo-Tat (Juhuri)	jdt	0	0	0	0
	Tat	ttt	0	0	0	0
Northeast Caucasian (10)	Aghul	agx	0	0	0	0
	Andi	ani	0	0	0	0
	Tsez	ddo	0	0	0	0
	Dargwa	dar	0	0	0	0
	Rutul	rut	0	0	0	0
	Tabasaran	tab	0	0	0	0
	Tindi	tin	0	0	0	0
	Tsakhur	tkr	0	0	0	0
	Udi	udi	0	0	0	0
	Abaza	abq	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric (8)	Ingrian	izh	0	0	0	0
	Khanty	kca	0	0	0	0
	Karelian	krl	455915	0.4476	0	0	7	0	3
	Livonian	liv	454502	0.4462	0	0	7	0	7
	Mansi	mns	0	0	0	0
	Kildin Sámi	sjd	155184	0.1524	9	0	2	0	2
	Ter Sámi	sjt	0	0	0	0
	Votic	vot	481454	0.4727	0	0	4	0	3
Samoyedic (4)	Enets	enf	0	0	0	0
	Nganasan	nio	0	0	0	0
	Selkup	sel	0	0	0	0
	Nenets	yrk	0	0	0	0
Paleosiberian (7)	Alyutor	alr	0	0	0	0
	Chukchi	ckt	0	0	0	0
	Itelmen	itl	0	0	0	0
	Ket	ket	0	0	0	0
	Koryak	kpy	0	0	0	0
	Nivkh	niv	0	0	0	0
	Southern Yukaghir	yux	0	0	0	0
Eskaleut (1)	Chaplino dialect	ess	0	0	0	0