Raisha Abdillah
Raisha Abdillah is a Project Lead and Wikidata contributor based in Jakarta. She leads the team behind Lexica, developing tool for lexicographical data with a focus on accessibility, multilingual support, thoughtful design, and community-centered development, especially for contributors in underserved language communities.
Session
Editing lexicographical data on Wikidata shows that every language stretches the model in its own way. Across 30+ languages, we have seen patterns and divergences in modeling Lexemes.
This session shares those observations plainly, with a focus on underserved and less-documented languages where contributors often work without much guidance. While sharing our observations, we will highlight languages that already have established practices (like Turkish, German, and French), as examples others can follow.
These reflections build directly on conversations happening in the Lexicographical Data community (from Telegram, Talk pages, and evolving documentation pages), and are shared here as learning experiences. We will also briefly show how we tried to fold these lessons into our approach when we built a tool to edit Lexemes, as an example of how contributors' pain points shape tool design.
Participants will leave with grounded examples of what works, where challenges remain, and ideas for how to approach contributing or building tools that handle linguistic diversity realistically.