Wiktionary:Landsbybrønden/Problems with Expressions and -expr- Template
Problems with Expressions and -expr- Template
redigérHello all, sorry to write in English, but I do not speak Danish at all.
I'm a Wiktionarian, NLP researcher and I am the author of DBnary, a tool that extracts many language editions of wiktionaries and make it freely available as linked data. I have recently been asked to extract the Danish edition and the extractor is now almost fully operational and Danish is the 26th edition extracted by DBnary.
During the extraction process, I wander around the pages and saw a strange choice in the page encodings that leads to difficulties in extracting, but more importantly to inconsistencies in many entries. The problem comes with the -expr- Template used ambiguously for the definition of "Expressions" (Udtryk) as Lexical entries and the definition of expressions involving the currently described lexical entry.
As far as I can tell, the main usage is to add a language tag as argument in {{-expr-|da}} for the former and no argument as in {{-expr-}} for the later. It is only a usage as the argument is never used nor tested by the template itself and no category is added for the former. There are also some errors, which I corrected to add more consistency in the current status. This usage is also mentioned in some documentation pages like Wiktionary:WikiProjekt Fransk/Værktøj and Wiktionary:Skabeloner.
The main problem comes from the fact that the former use should involve a level 3 heading and the later use a level 4 heading. This leads to pages where the structure is unclear and the entry rendering is puzzling as the Part Of Speech appears too small (as in tueur en série). To avoid this, few pages used directly a Heading as in viel Geschrei und wenig Wolle.
Would it be interesting to create a new template for the first usage (Udtryk as a Part of Speech, that would take a language code as first arg and create the correct heading along the correct category (as -noun- or other PoS templates. The list of entries that would be impacted by the decision is given in may user page User:dodecaplex. What do you think of this proposal, would somebody volunteer to create such a template and correct the mentioned entries ?
Thanks in advance.