On Monday, August 7, 2023, 1:26 PM, abstract-wikipedia-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Send Abstract-Wikipedia mailing list submissions toTo subscribe or unsubscribe, please visitYou can reach the person managing the list atWhen replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Abstract-Wikipedia digest..."Today's Topics:1. Newsletter #114: Wikifunctions is starting up (Denny Vrandečić)2. Re: Newsletter #114: Wikifunctions is starting up(Denny Vrandečić)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 13:18:49 -0700From: Denny Vrandečić <dvrandecic@wikimedia.org>Subject: [Abstract-wikipedia] Newsletter #114: Wikifunctions isstarting upTo: Abstract Wikipedia list <abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.org>Message-ID:<CA+bik1frcYQO6oAzpAtdDFmqDmEvg=Fhv9fNJHn+-HuB7-JSSA@mail.gmail.com>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="000000000000f4f3af06025af41d"This newsletter can be found on the Web here:After three years of development, we are excited to share that Wikifunctionsisslowly beginning to roll out.Wikifunctions, the newest Wikimedia project, is a new space tocollaboratively create and maintain a library of functions. You can thinkof these functions like recipes for a meal—they take inputs and produce anoutput (a reliable answer). You might have experienced something similarwhen using a search engine to find the distance between two locations, thevolume of an object, converting two units, and more.You can learn more about how Wikifunctions works in this short video onCommonsand YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHy63VOp0RQ>.Wikifunctions is a project that allows you to create new functions, runexisting functions, and understand how they work. We anticipate that thesystem will eventually be able to generate sentences, texts, and fullarticles. Using the simple facts housed in Wikidata<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page>, you will be able towrite functions that make calculations, provide a person’s age, estimatepopulation densities, and more, and integrate the results into Wikipedia.Additionally, Wikifunctions allows you to read and implement functions inyour native language, be that English, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, or one ofthe hundreds of other supported languages.At the moment, just like any other new Wikimedia initiative, we are rollingout Wikifunctions with minimal content and features to start. Logged-incontributors can run a few early functions, and editing will be limited aswe test the project’s stability. You can request edit accessWikifunctions, and we will give out the rights to more people as we testand learn. Things will bend, break, get fixed, and break again as we buildup the project’s capabilities. For now, we are excited to announce that theWikimedia communities have decided on the very first function: *jointogether* <https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z10000>. The functiontakes two strings and returns them combined. If you are logged-in, you cantry it out now on WikifunctionsWe are looking forward to a thriving community to grow and maintain alibrary of many useful and interesting functions in the future.------------------------------Wikifunctions is a core component of the larger Abstract Wikipediainitiative,which will enable Wikimedia volunteer editors to create and maintaincontent in a single place that can be shared across languages. In short:Abstract Wikipedia will build a system where an editor can contributeknowledge using their native Swahili, and a reader will be able to benefitfrom that knowledge by reading it in their native Japanese.Thank youOn behalf of the Abstract Wikipedia team and the whole Wikimedia movement,please join me in welcoming Wikifunctions as a new project. We can’t bemore excited to invite you to experience it.We plan to continue developing Wikifunctions to add new features: we willbuild in better support for programming languages, access to Wikidata,integration with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, the ability todeal with binary data files, and much more.If you are interested in working with us to build a catalog of functions(and have some patience to deal with the hiccups of an early new project),please join us <https://www.wikifunctions.org/> as a contributor onWikifunctions! We are looking forward to becoming a new community.We thank Google.org, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the WikimediaEndowment for their support.-------------- next part --------------A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ...Name: not availableType: text/htmlSize: 7035 bytesDesc: not available------------------------------Message: 2Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 13:26:12 -0700From: Denny Vrandečić <dvrandecic@wikimedia.org>Subject: [Abstract-wikipedia] Re: Newsletter #114: Wikifunctions isstarting upTo: Abstract Wikipedia list <abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.org>Message-ID:<CA+bik1eyT3X1fS27k88PPFx6m5pp9jy_bgDyNmJc+ZBcfnp8rg@mail.gmail.com>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;boundary="000000000000594b1306025b0f51"I got the numbering wrong, this was #123, not #114. Sorry!On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 1:18 PM Denny Vrandečić <dvrandecic@wikimedia.org>wrote:> This newsletter can be found on the Web here:>> After three years of development, we are excited to share that> Wikifunctions> slowly beginning to roll out.>> Wikifunctions, the newest Wikimedia project, is a new space to> collaboratively create and maintain a library of functions. You can think> of these functions like recipes for a meal—they take inputs and produce an> output (a reliable answer). You might have experienced something similar> when using a search engine to find the distance between two locations, the> volume of an object, converting two units, and more.>> You can learn more about how Wikifunctions works in this short video on> Commons> and YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHy63VOp0RQ>.>> Wikifunctions is a project that allows you to create new functions, run> existing functions, and understand how they work. We anticipate that the> system will eventually be able to generate sentences, texts, and full> articles. Using the simple facts housed in Wikidata> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page>, you will be able to> write functions that make calculations, provide a person’s age, estimate> population densities, and more, and integrate the results into Wikipedia.>> Additionally, Wikifunctions allows you to read and implement functions in> your native language, be that English, Spanish, Arabic, Bengali, or one of> the hundreds of other supported languages.>> At the moment, just like any other new Wikimedia initiative, we are> rolling out Wikifunctions with minimal content and features to start.> Logged-in contributors can run a few early functions, and editing will be> limited as we test the project’s stability. You can request edit access> Wikifunctions, and we will give out the rights to more people as we test> and learn. Things will bend, break, get fixed, and break again as we build> up the project’s capabilities. For now, we are excited to announce that the> Wikimedia communities have decided on the very first function: *join> together* <https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z10000>. The function> takes two strings and returns them combined. If you are logged-in, you can> try it out now on Wikifunctions>> We are looking forward to a thriving community to grow and maintain a> library of many useful and interesting functions in the future.> ------------------------------>> Wikifunctions is a core component of the larger Abstract Wikipedia> which will enable Wikimedia volunteer editors to create and maintain> content in a single place that can be shared across languages. In short:> Abstract Wikipedia will build a system where an editor can contribute> knowledge using their native Swahili, and a reader will be able to benefit> from that knowledge by reading it in their native Japanese.> Thank you>> On behalf of the Abstract Wikipedia team and the whole Wikimedia movement,> please join me in welcoming Wikifunctions as a new project. We can’t be> more excited to invite you to experience it.>> We plan to continue developing Wikifunctions to add new features: we will> build in better support for programming languages, access to Wikidata,> integration with Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, the ability to> deal with binary data files, and much more.>> If you are interested in working with us to build a catalog of functions> (and have some patience to deal with the hiccups of an early new project),> please join us <https://www.wikifunctions.org/> as a contributor on> Wikifunctions! We are looking forward to becoming a new community.>> We thank Google.org, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Wikimedia> Endowment for their support.>-------------- next part --------------A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ...Name: not availableType: text/htmlSize: 7528 bytesDesc: not available------------------------------Subject: Digest Footer_______________________________________________Abstract-Wikipedia mailing list -- abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.orgList information: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/abstract-wikipedia.lists.wikimedia.org/------------------------------End of Abstract-Wikipedia Digest, Vol 38, Issue 5*************************************************