Interesting read and topic. Seems like the primary driver is utilising all the effort put into the English wiki for other languages and also avoiding potentiall

Interesting read and topic. Seems like the primary driver is utilising all the effort put into the English wiki for other languages and also avoiding potentially redundant extra work. I appreciate the prose that Wikipedia tends to have and hopefully their more structured approach to 'facts' doesn't change that. I've used wiki(pedia|data) datasets, the former for article summaries and latter for knowledge panel facts. Seemed like they've tinkered with something called 'templates' in the past, where things like population wouldn't be in the markup, but reference another page/key where the data actually is (see enwiki for Greece if interested). Was a bit of a pain writing a parser for it especially when these things change so often and as it turns out the population has reverted back to being plaintext in the article. Would call myself a Layman, though my humble suggestion would be that statements could potentially be tagged with wikidataids of the things/events that are mentioned in them. Potentially that could make updates easier and wikidata has translations of entities that are much less subject to literary license. Potentially this could make it easier to translate to other languages. Definitely seems like a large rabbit hole to get into, as you could then go onto have simple language rules like is|was when someone is no longer alive, do-able if the wikidata entity is tagged to the statement. Interesting stuff to think about nonetheless, and noting other comments that some 'facts' are subject to interpretation.