The on-wiki version of the newsletter is here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2020-12-18
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This is the last newsletter for 2020. We will take a break in writing the
newsletter until January. We wish everyone happy holidays and a good start
into 2021, a year which will see the launch of a new Wikimedia project. Yay!
Last week saw the publication of a conversation between Heather Ford
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Ford>, Professor at the University
of Technology, Sydney, and Denny Vrandečić. They discuss the potential
advantages but also ethical challenges that Abstract Wikipedia will
face: Automated
Facts, Data Contextualization and Knowledge Colonialism
<https://bigdatasoc.blogspot.com/2020/12/automated-facts-data-contextualization.html>
We presented Abstract Wikipedia at the Wikimedia Ukraine 2020 conference
<https://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F_2020>.
A recording of the presentation is available here, using slides translated
to Ukrainian: video <https://youtube.com/watch?v=tYMQVpUuKks&t=6910>
There was also a talk at the Fall 2020 edition of the SMWCon
<https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2020> in Vienna. That
talk went through the history of Semantic MediaWiki to Wikidata and was
focused more around the usage of Semantic MediaWiki as a knowledge tool -
and how a library of functions can be helpful with that. keynote
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EosGUoucthg>
SMWCon also featured a panel with Lydia Pintscher
<http://www.lydiapintscher.de/about.php>, Markus Krötzsch
<https://iccl.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/Markus_Kr%C3%B6tzsch/en>, and others,
discussing the interaction between Semantic MediaWiki and Knowledge
Representation - a topic that will be crucial also for Abstract Wikipedia:
panel <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lp4azOUX1Y>
Happy new Gregorian year!