Members of the Wikimedia community have been working on a project called Abstract Wikipedia (the name will soon be replaced by a better one but we do not know what it will be yet; see https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia for details of the project). As part of the efforts, they have been adding lexicographical data to Wikidata lexemes, which involves adding senses, examples and other data about different lexicographical entities to them. The Bengali Wiktionary project currently only has a little more than 107k entries, and could greatly benefit from the work being done on Wikidata. The Bengali Wiktionary community started using a MediaWiki template and a Lua module to automatically render information about different words based on the data stored in Wikidata lexemes last year. This project aimed to take that a step further by automating the process so editors can focus on editing Wikidata and their efforts do not have to be duplicated. The bot checks the list of Wikidata lexemes to search for ones where there are senses in the bot operator’s target language and compares it against the total list of Wiktionary entries on the target Wiktionary to check which ones are missing. Then, it uses the template and module that editors have been using to automatically make new entries on Wiktionary. This turned out to be a little harder than I expected it to be as I quickly realized that many lemmas would be found across different lexemes and languages so handling them took some extra effort. That being said, I hope this helps people looking for a truly free Bengali dictionary, and in the future can be deployed to other Wiktionaries as well.
