Thad,
All,
Thank you for taking a look at the proposal.
Quality assurance is an important topic for the proposed project, including and beyond
vandalism detection.
As envisioned, each question can have multiple answers and each answer can be supported by
multiple justifications. Perhaps users (and eventually AI systems) will be able to
indicate that particular answers were, in their opinions, either of quality or in need of
attention. Perhaps there can be solutions devised – and perhaps beyond upvoting and
downvoting – for sorting candidate answers for presentation and display purposes (this is
on the way to automated decision-making systems, automated debate judges, which can be
developed and trained using wiki-based resources such as Wikianswers).
Then to the matter of whether users will choose to create, edit, and work with
justifications to answers. I go into some detail in the proposal about emergent benefits
and features were they to.
If we get the collaboration design and related features right – and there are some details
remaining to be considered – the integration of multiple AI question-answering systems
(these can be domain-specific) with a wiki question-and-answers platform should become
increasingly performant and useful. Crowdsourced, or social, question-and-answer platforms
have been previously proven. The cool new features come from the integration of AI
technologies such as question-answering systems.
Also, what might you think about the computer-aided document-authoring ideas
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers#Technical_discussion)? These MediaWiki
software feature ideas are applicable to Wikifunctions in that extensible server-side
document-processing tools can include parsers and compilers for each supported programming
language; the outputs of these document-processing tools can be represented as
annotations; and there are also user-interface topics to consider pertaining to displaying
these annotations while users edit, preview, view, and view more information about wiki
documents.
These same software features would be increasingly useful for other wiki projects –
including the proposed Wikianswers project – though the server-side document-processing
tools would be, instead of parsers and compilers, natural-language processing tools and
systems (e.g., spellchecking, grammar checking, readability analysis, sentiment analysis,
analysis of subjectivity and objectivity, fact-checking, reasoning checking, dependency
graph analysis, argument verification and validation, and automated decision-making
systems).
Best regards,
Adam
From: Thad Guidry<mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2021 10:16 AM
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Subject: [Abstract-wikipedia] Re: Wikianswers
Cool, but let's have fun with a quality perspective, and the reality of needs
sometimes...
Girl: <>I need an answer for why birds have hard beaks.
Wikianswers: <blank> - We know all birds have hard beaks, but do not know the
reason why. Perhaps you know the reason and can type this in?
Boy: <typing> Because... Mom said... God made them that way.
Wikianswers: Thanks!
Boy: <puzzled and still no answer> OK, let me try Google.
I personally think folks appreciate much more when they don't have to participate so
much when they want answers, but often are quite content to clarify their questions to get
a quality answer.
The reverse is not often true.
Thad
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/
https://calendly.com/thadguidry/
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 2:20 AM Adam Sobieski
<adamsobieski@hotmail.com<mailto:adamsobieski@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Abstract Wikipedia,
Hello. I am pleased to share a new project proposal: Wikianswers
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers).
Like similar projects, users will be able to receive one or more answers to their
questions from artificial intelligence question-answering systems, but, unlike other
projects, they will subsequently be able to edit these answers and any provided
justifications using wiki technology. User-corrected content could later be utilized to
retrain consulted question-answering systems, resulting in continual improvement.
The proposed project would greatly benefit end-users and would create a valuable resource
for the training of artificial intelligence systems.
As broached in the proposal’s technical discussion section
(
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers#Technical_discussion), components and
features which could add value to Wikianswers could also add value to Wikifunctions:
server-side document-processing, annotations, and client-side user interface topics. With
these components and features, in a manner resembling an IDE, users could receive
informational, warning, and error messages when working with source code, e.g., Python, in
a wiki document context.
Thank you for any ideas, comments, questions, or suggestions with which to improve the
project proposal.
Thank you for taking the time to express your support for or opposition to the newly
proposed project.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
http://www.phoster.com
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