On 17 May 2021 at 19:21 Douglas Clark <clarkdd@gmail.com> wrote:

I would like to clarify the base capability I see in Wikipragmatica, as well as the user community's work stream in support of it's curation. My concern is the path the team has chosen is a dead end beyond the limited use cases of Wikipedia day zero + a few years. An ecosystem of free knowledge certainly seems to lead outside the confines of today's wiki markup world for data and information acquisition. At some point, you will have to semantically disambiguate the remainder of the web. That is not in the manual tagging solution set.

So suppose we look beyond the proof-of-concept and the immediate impacts of the "materials" of the Abstract Wikipedia project: the concrete improvements in the Lexeme space in Wikidata, for example for medical and chemical vocabulary; and the repository including what broadly could be called "conversion scripts".

Various further topics have come up on this list. Some of those might be:

(a) Authoring multiple-choice questions in AW code, as a basis for multilingual educational materials.

(b) Publication of WikiJournals - the Wikimedia contribution to learned journals - in AW code that would then translate to multilingual versions.

(c) Using AW code as the target in generalised text-mining.

I think you are foreseeing something like (c). Certainly it is more like a blue-sky problem.

Charles