Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Focus languages/Form/Danish

Language: Danish

Language details

What is the language, language family, usual scripts, where is it spoken, by how many people, and what other languages do speakers (%) of this language usually speak? (Some of this information can be found in the article list of languages by total number of speakers)

Five to six million people speak Danish. English is widely understood by people speaking Danish. Swedish and Norwegian are mostly understood by Danish, but it may be difficult to write correctly in the foreign language.

Current representation of this language in Wikimedia projects

Is there a Wikipedia or a Wiktionary? Is it a language in Wikidata? If yes, what are the statistics for pages in Wikipedia or Wiktionary, or for Lexemes in Wikidata? (Details are in m:Complete list of Wikimedia projects, and in the local Special:Statistics pages, and in Ordia for Lexemes.)

There is both a Danish Wiktionary and Wikipedia. 265.186 articles is in the Danish Wikipedia. 38.904 words in the Danish Wiktionary. There are currently 8.680 Danish lexemes in Wikidata. In terms of coverage of Wikipedia tokens it is one of the leading.

Current representation of this language in other sources

Is there an open corpus of text for this language? How many books are published in this language? Is this language taught in schools? Is it an official language of a country or region? (Please link to details)

There is several corpora. Some of these are aggregated into the Danish Gigaword Project: Leon Strømberg-Derczynski; Rebekah Baglini; Morten H. Christiansen; et al. (7 May 2020), The Danish Gigaword Project (PDF), arXiv:2005.03521, Wikidata Q93587168

Seed group of participants

Describe a bit about the seed group that wants to coordinate and actively participate. Describe its size, its current activity, why this group will likely still exist in three years time. Does anyone in the group know how to code? How many in the group know English? How many in the group are not living where the language is spoken, or are not native speakers?

Finn Årup Nielsen (fnielsen) (talk) 01:51, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Potential for community growth

Describe the potential for the language community to grow. Is Internet access widely available? Through which kind of devices usually? What is the literacy rate in the language community? Are there universities, vocational schools, or similar institutions, and how large are the student populations?

Internet is widely available accessed with desktop, laptop, smartphones and tables. The literacy rate is very high and there are several universities.

Openness of the existing community to innovation

If there is a Wikipedia in that language, how open has it been to Wikidata? To Article Placeholder? To bot editing and usage of modules?

Wikidata is used for many infoboxes. There are bot edits and a few 100 references uses Wikidata items.