Hi everyone,

Last week I attended and presented at the virtual Celtic Knot Conference. There were plenty of interesting talks, some live, some pre-recorded, all now available on YouTube; links are available on the “Main/Live program” page, and the “Videos pool” page.

I wanted to point out some of presentations and other things that might be interesting:

• You can see a demo 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, 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, which has all sorts of nifty capabilities. A nice one is looking to see how many lexemes each language has.
• I had not previously heard of 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, 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. One positive side effect of his proposal might be better search on new wikis.

I don’t particularly recommend my talk 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