How Many Languages Does Wikimedia Search Support?
TL;DR: On-wiki search “supports” a lot of “languages”. “Search supports more than 50 language varieties” is a defensible position to take. “Search supports…
Author: Trey Jones
Staff Computational Linguist, Wikimedia Foundation
Permuting Khmer: restructuring Khmer syllables for search
Khmer is written left-to-right in syllable groups, without spaces between words—though that’s not its most complicated feature!
Computational knowledge: Wikidata, Wikidata query Service, and women who are mayors!
One of the main aims of Wikidata is to represent knowledge in a way that is computable—that is, amenable to automatic processing. Wikipedia already contains a lot of information; much of it is reasonably easy for a human to understand—though some of the more esoteric bits are decidedly not—but it’s not at all readily crunchable by a computer.