Editing Help:Entities

<b>Entities</b> are the objects used to internally store Wikibase items. An entity consists of a particular data structure [https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/docs_topics_json.html serialized into JSON format] inside [https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/docs_storage_entities.html a MediaWiki page].

Each entity is indexed under a fixed number beginning with one of three letters: Q (Item), P (Property), L (Lexeme). There is not currently any way to create new letter prefixes for more specific usages.

== Items ==

== Properties ==

== Lexemes ==

A Lexeme is an entity [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseLexeme/Data_Model designed] to contain all inflections of a given linguistic term as well as every definition of that same set of conjugations.

Lexemes are distinguished from each other by grammatical category plus language. For languages without grammatical gender, major grammatical categories may include <i>noun</i> versus <i>verb</i> or <i>adjective</i>, while for languages with grammatical gender, nouns may also be divided into genders including <i>masculine nouns</i> and <i>feminine nouns</i>.

* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L8026 Leiter (de, m)] vs [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L2919 Leiter (de, f)]
* [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L4106 run (en, n)] vs [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L279 run (en, v)] vs [https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Lexeme:L1367885 run (es, m)]

In order to use Lexemes, the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikibaseLexeme WikibaseLexeme] extension must be installed.