Add Danish keyboard

[andrewtavis]

Terms

• I have searched open new keyboard issues
• I agree to follow Scribe-iOS' Code of Conduct
• This issue is about one language, and I've changed the title to reflect this

Language support

Danish has lots of available language data on Wikidata, and for this reason should be included as soon as possible. As with Swedish, there is common and neutral in Danish, and verb conjugation also seems to be fairly simple such that the 2x2 display would be being used. This is likely going to be the most effort for this issue in terms of finding which tenses should be displayed where. There also seems to be issues with verb conjugations being labeled the same as in scribe-org/Scribe-Data#6, so those can be dropped for now with hopefully little effect to the available data.

Contribution

I'd be happy to work on this, and it may be focussed on in a future release :)

What's needed

• A Danish directory added to Keyboards/LanguageKeyboards that includes a DanishKeyboardViewController.swift file
• Danish language keyboard values and logic added to DAInterfaceVariables.swift in the above directory
• Danish language keyboard commands added to DACommandVariables.swift in the above directory
• Fine tuning the WDQS queries found in Scribe-Data/Data/Danish
• Writing formatting Python scripts and adding them to Scribe-Data/Data/Danish
• Add Danish keyboard specific logic to KeyboardViewController.swift
• Setting up alternate key functions if there are keys that have them that aren't already implemented
• Adding all the formatted JSON data to a Data directory in the new directory and updating the data table in the readme

[andrewtavis]

Word counts via Data/check_language_data.sparql:

type	total
adjective	1193
adverb	277
article	3
noun	7511
preposition	53
pronoun	46
proper noun	435
verb	3145

[ayushanand308]

@andrewtavis I want to work on this issue and I am new to this project. Can you share some resources on how to get started so that I can work on this issue?

[andrewtavis]

Hey @ayushanand308! A big thing for this issue would be to have a good understanding of Wikidata Query Service so that we can make the queries for Danish a bit better — if needed :) The introduction to wikidata query service would be an initial place to look so that you can understand the use of SPARQL :)

Beyond that, could you let me know what experience you have with Swift, Python and Danish? No stress if your experience is limited! It looks like you have some Python experience, so that'll be great for doing the data formatting for the queries in Scribe-Data, and beyond that we can work a bit on whatever you'd like to learn 😊 If you're interested in learning Swift, we can work on that, or I can also handle that part of it if need be. Big question in those regards is are you an iOS or Android user? If you're Android, then maybe the issues you have picked in Scribe-Android would be a good focus, and then for iOS you can focus on the data part with your Python skills 🚀

Thanks for reaching out!

[ayushanand308]

@andrewtavis I would say I have an intermediate level in python and am constantly learning. No experience with swift or Danish. Would it be better for me to work on the English counterpart of this issue as I don't know any danish?

I am an android user. So I guess I would be going with what you have suggested i.e focusing on data part with python on the scribe's ios project and the issues that I have picked for the android project. :-)

[andrewtavis]

Maybe working on the English counterpart would be better, @ayushanand308, but then we can probably figure out the Danish grammar ourselves for an MVP. This needs #96 to be finished to be viable anyway.

How about you focus on the Android issues for now and then we can switch back to this and you can work within Scribe-Data with your Python skills and maybe learn some SPARQL for Wikidata Query Service? Don't want to overload you right at the start :)

[ayushanand308]

@andrewtavis Ok. I will go that.

[andrewtavis]

@ayushanand308, there are some simple tasks that you could do for Danish now, if you have interest. First and foremost adding a line to DAKeyboardViewController.swift that references the main view controller like the other KeyboardViewControllers for the other languages would be good, and then adding in the DAInterfaceVariables.swift and DACommandVariables.swift files would be good. You could use the Swedish files as a base and rename things where it should reference Danish rather than Swedish.

Happy to answer any questions :)