Wikipedia abstractă

Wikipedia abstractă Începutul: 2020-07 Membrii echipei: Denny Vrandečić (Product Manager), Adam Baso (Engineering Director), Cory Massaro (Software Engineer), Genoveva Galarza (Software Engineer), James Forrester (Software Engineer), Quiddity (Community Relations) Actualizări: Actualizări

Proiect

Acest proiect constă din două părți: Wikipedia abstractă și Wikifuncții.

The goal of Abstract Wikipedia is to let more people share more knowledge in more languages. Abstract Wikipedia is a conceptual extension of Wikidata. In Abstract Wikipedia, people can create and maintain Wikipedia articles in a language-independent way. A particular language Wikipedia can translate this language-independent article into its language. Code does the translation.

Wikifunctions is a new Wikimedia project that allows anyone to create and maintain code. This is useful in many different ways. It provides a catalog of all kinds of functions that anyone can call, write, maintain, and use. It also provides code that translates the language-independent article from Abstract Wikipedia into the language of a Wikipedia. This allows everyone to read the article in their language. Wikifunctions will use knowledge about words and entities from Wikidata.

This will get us closer to a world where everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge.

Ce este o funcție?

A "function" is a sequence of computer program instructions that makes a calculation based on data you provide. Functions are a form of knowledge that can answer questions, such as how many days have passed between two dates or the distance between two cities. More complicated functions can answer more complicated questions, such as the volume of a three dimensional shape, the distance between Mars and Venus on a certain date, or whether two species were alive at the same time. We already use functions in many types of knowledge inquiries, such as asking a question to a search engine. The templates known as {{convert}} and {{age}} in English are also examples of functionalities that are already used in many Wikipedias, written in wikitext and Lua and manually copied to each wiki where it's wanted.

More examples of functions are at Early function examples, and very rough sketches of how the interface might look are at Early mockups.

In short, functions make a calculation on the data you provide, and answer a question you have about it.

This new Wikimedia project will build a library of functions, written by volunteers, to help answer questions like these across languages. By building out our library of functions, we can enable more people to access and explore free knowledge in new ways.

Ce este Wikipedia abstractă?

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A visual explanation of the Abstract Wikipedia project and Wikifunctions

The term “Abstract Wikipedia” itself refers to the long-term goal – that this library of functions will someday enable the creation of language-independent articles. Once more pieces of this project are in place, this will mean that any wiki – especially small to medium wikis – will be able to dramatically increase the number of articles available in their language. It also means that editors can share knowledge from their culture and contexts with a larger and more global audience.

The new wiki of functions, Wikifunctions, will develop the coding infrastructure to make this vision possible. The Abstract Wikipedia part of the project will start in roughly 2022.

In other words: we will be able to combine the functions from the new wiki, with the data and linguistic-information in Wikidata, in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).

Cronologie

• 2013–2020: discuții despre proiecte, cercetări și propuneri.
• Mai 2020: proiect aprobat.
• Iulie 2020: proiect anunțat; dezvoltarea începe pe Extension:WikiLambda; lista de discuții și alte canale create și discuțiile aprofundate cresc.
• Septembrie 2020 – decembrie 2020: concurs de denumire pentru wiki de funcții.
• Decembrie 2020: începe discuțiile pentru concurs de sigle Wikifuncții și prezentări de propuneri.
• 2021: lansează Wikifuncții; începeți discuții în comunitate despre arhitectură.
• 2022: începe dezvoltarea propriu-zisă a abstractului Wikipedia
• 2023: integrarea Wikipedia abstractă în Wikipedia propriu-zisă și în alte proiecte surori.

Participă

• Modificați
  • Work on lexicographic knowledge in Wikidata. This will be needed for Abstract Wikipedia to succeed and can be worked on right now.
• Discuție
  • Talk:Abstract Wikipedia
  • Listă de distribuție dedicată
  • Telegram sau IRC #wikipedia-abstract^connect (legate între ele printr-un pod)
• Dezvoltă
  • mw:Extension:WikiLambda
  • phabricator:tag/abstract wikipedia
  • If you want to help with development, please let us know.
• Încercați-l
  • You can see some early mockups for a rough idea of how the user interface might work.
  • An unofficial test wiki for the WikiLambda extension is available. This is a very early version, it will get better over time.
  • An early prototype implementation is available on Github. This may no longer be working with the latest MediaWiki releases.
  • The easiest way to dive into the prototype is by reading the walkthrough.
  • Alternative implementation in GraalVM

Office hours

The Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia office hours are online events where the development team present what they have been working on recently, and the community is welcome to ask questions and discuss important related issues. They are announced on the mailing list and in the newsletter. They take place every 4-6 weeks.

• Next: 16:00 UTC on 2021-06-22. In the Telegram channel or IRC Channel #wikipedia-abstract^connect (bridged together)

Fond

An article in the Signpost provides a more detailed introduction to the idea. The material below - research papers, videos of talks, prototype software - offers a lot of detail. A detailed draft plan for the development of Wikilambda is also available.

See the Historic proposal page for the long list of related discussions, papers, videos, and comparable proposals.

Repere includ:

• Scurt videoclip introductiv la Wikidata și ideea Wikipedia abstractă (New York, 2019) (18 min)
• Înțelesul capturării: Către o Wikipedia abstractă (scurtă introducere)
• Colaborarea la suma tuturor cunoștințelor între limbi (aspecte sociale)

Lectură suplimentară

• Wikilambda ca proiect pe cont propriu
• Viziunea Wikilambda
• Exemple de conținut abstract
• Glosar

Plan de proiect

1. Summary: overview of the project plan
2. Name: discussion on the name of the project
3. Goals: what are we trying to achieve? Primary and secondary goals
4. Organization: how the development team would be set up
5. Requirements: overall conditions that the project needs to fulfill
6. Architecture: an overview of how the project components would work together
7. Components: individual software components the project needs to deliver
8. Tasks: individual tasks that need to be done by the projects

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