waldyrious / makesense

Generate Senses for Lexemes on Wikidata from already existing Wikidata Items

About the project

Lexemes on Wikidata currently often lack their senses. For nouns we often also have an item corresponding to the senses. This tool provides an easy way for the user to add senses to lexemes that are probably a match by just clicking a button.

How it works

The tool searches for such possible senses for existing lexemes using a Wikidata Query that matches the lemma for the lexeme with items with same label (in the same language) and adds them and the descriptions for the items to a database.

The flask based Webgui then allows users to login with their Wikimedia account (using OAUTH) and be presented with the potential matches.

If the user accepts the match, the description of the item will be added as a new sense and the item itself will be added with P5137 (item for this sense) to that sense.

How to use

The tool is running on Toolforge: https://tools.wmflabs.org/machtsinn/

After logging in, use the buttons Save or Reject match to decide if an item really corresponds to a sense for the lexeme or not. Edits to Wikidata will be made in your name. If you are unsure if it is a good match, click Next.

Statisics of usage

You can finde usage statistics here: https://tools.wmflabs.org/machtsinn/statistics

You can also follow the recent changes on Wikidata using this filter on Recent changes.

Contributors

• @Nudin
• @Incabell
• @DDuplinszki
• @Ainali
• @so9q
• @dzarmola