Hi everyone,
Last week I attended and presented at the virtual Celtic Knot Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020>. There were
plenty of interesting talks, some live, some pre-recorded, all now
available on YouTube; links are available on the “Main/Live program
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020/Live_program>”
page, and the “Videos pool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Knot_Conference_2020/Videos_pool>”
page.
I wanted to point out some of presentations and other things that might be
interesting:
- You can see a demo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJ_0aqgPg> of
what the Growth Team has been up to with their newcomer task work that our
team has been supporting.
- There’s a workshop-like demo of the Lexeme project on Wikidata
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDM5QJAJzNc>, which still has a long
way to go, but already has a *lot* of data.
- There’s also Lexeme-related tool in ToolForge called Ordia
<https://ordia.toolforge.org/>, which has all sorts of nifty
capabilities. A nice one is looking to see how many lexemes each
language has <https://ordia.toolforge.org/language/>.
- I had not previously heard of Wikidata Bridge
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Bridge>, which aims to allow
people to edit Wikidata from infoboxes!
- A recent article from *Java Magazine* lists the 25 greatest Java apps
ever written
<https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/the-top-25-greatest-java-apps-ever-written>,
and #6 is “Wikipedia Search”, even though the Java bit is mostly
Elasticsearch and the “Wikipedia” part is mostly PHP. Still, it’s nice to
be appreciated.
- Amir has some nice ideas about how to make the Wikimedia Incubator
better <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdyzrDzD0qg>. One positive side
effect of his proposal might be better search on new wikis.
I don’t particularly recommend my talk
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi3-w9ne3zg> since it is a short version
of the same old overview of the basic kinds of text processing we can do
for search—unless you want to see a few more examples in Irish (I don’t try
to *pronounce* any of the Irish words, though, so it isn’t as entertaining
as it could have been).
I already got a line on some Breton stop words, and I’m going to look into
what we are doing for Breton as a 10% project.
—Trey
Trey Jones
Sr. Computational Linguist, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
UTC-4 / EDT