Progress in lexicographic data in Wikidata 2023

5 January 2024

Here are some highlights of the progress in lexicographic data in Wikidata in 2023

• Panjabi jumped right away from 0% to 71%
• Greek jumped from 0% to 45% right away
• Italian made a huge jump from 52% to 82% by increasing the number of forms from 9,000 to 286,000
• Turkish jumped from 0.9% to 22%
• Sindhi climbed from 15% to 25%
• Farsi climbed from 15% to 24% increasing the number of forms from 4,000 to 33,000
• Western Panjabi climbed from 36.9% to 47.9%
• Hindi climbed from 49.9% to 65.9%
• Breton increased from 56% to 67%
• Changes in Croatian coverage in 2023
• Dutch went from 20% to 29%
• French from 82.9% to 86.9%, mostly by dealing better with apostrophes in the analysis
• Nynorsk pushed from 75% to 80% by increasing the number of forms from 18,000 to 68,000
• Danish from 83.9% to 86.9% by increasing the number of forms in Wikidata from 65,000 to 170,000
• German from 76% to 79% by increasing the number of forms in Wikidata from 90,000 to 200,000
• Spanish pushed from 88% to 91% by increasing the number of forms from 280,000 to 430,000

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