Forwarding because this (ambitious!) proposal may be of interest to people
on other lists. I'm not endorsing the proposal at this time, but I'm
curious about it.
Pine
( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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From: Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 6:32 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a
way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the
shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread
languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest
knowledge base we have is the wealth of text written in human languages.
We looks for a path to bridge the gap between knowledge representation
languages such as OWL and human natural languages such as English. We
propose a project to simultaneously expose that gap, allow to collaborate
on closing it, make progress widely visible, and is highly attractive and
valuable in its own right: a Wikipedia written in an abstract language to
be rendered into any natural language on request. This would make current
Wikipedia editors about 100x more productive, and increase the content of
Wikipedia by 10x. For billions of users this will unlock knowledge they
currently do not have access to.
My first talk on this topic will be on October 10, 2018, 16:45-17:00, at
the Asilomar in Monterey, CA during the Blue Sky track of ISWC. My second,
longer talk on the topic will be at the DL workshop in Tempe, AZ, October
27-29. Comments are very welcome as I prepare the slides and the talk.
Link to the paper: http://simia.net/download/abstractwikipedia.pdf
Cheers,
Denny
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Hello all,
The next IRC office hour with the Wikidata team will take place on January
8th 2019, from 18:00 to 19:00 (UTC+1, Berlin time), on the channel
#wikimedia-office.
As usual, we will present you some news from the development team, the
projects to come, and collect your feedback.
If you have any special topic you'd like to see as a focus, please share it
here!
Thanks,
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Hello,
In the pre-conference of SWIB18 [1], Stacy Allison-Cassin and Dan Scott
have lead yesterday a great workshop on "Wikibase: configure, customize,
and collaborate".
Among others, the discussion on the panel have show the big interest on
a decentralized mode to use Wikidata throug a network of Wikibase instances.
To implement it, we have identify the following needs:
* Wikibase instance on Docker have to be update to current version of
the software.
* A users' community have to be build and remain in close connecting
interactions with the development team.
* Performing Import and export script between Wikidata and Wikibase
have to be achieve.
* Connecting Properties have to be developping in the way to
interoperate the instances.
Is the Wikidata Community agree with this proposal? The development team
also?
Is it necessary to open a second mailing-list dedicate to Wikibase?
Where is the best place to discuss of all this things?
Best Regards
Baptiste
[1] http://swib.org/swib18/index.html
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Hello,
I am investigating with several people other the rainbow in GNU project as
part of guix [0].
Our goal is to make our packages easier to discover by our users via
full-text search or structured queries.
Questions:
a) I see Arch and Debian have properties. What would it take to have a guix
property?
b) Is there already a group of people working together to put in place a
list of requirements
for software entities to be considered good in the sens of wikidata?
c) What level of notoriety requires a software to be included in wikidata?
Thanks in advance!
[0] http://gnu.org/s/guix is both a package manager and an Operating System
// sorry for cross-posting
Hello everyone,
the Technical Advice IRC Meeting [1] is taking a 4-week break. The next
meeting will take place in 2019, on January 16.
Also, please take note that there’ll be only one time slot for the
Technical Advice IRC Meeting in 2019: 4 pm UTC.
See you in 2019!
Johanna (for the Technical Advice IRC Meeting crew)
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting
The Structured Data on Commons team has begun beta testing of the first
feature, multilingual file captions, and all community members are invited
to test it out. Captions is based on designs discussed with the community
[1][2] and the team is looking forward to hearing about testing.
***If all goes well during testing, captions will be turned on for Commons
around the second week of January, 2019.***
Multilingual captions are plain text fields that provide brief, easily
translatable details of a file in a way that is easy to create, edit, and
curate. Captions are added during the upload process using the
UploadWizard, or they can be added directly on any file page on Commons.
Adding captions in multiple languages is a simple process that requires
only a few steps.
The details:
-
There is [[mw:Help:File_captions|a help page available on how to use
multilingual file captions]]
-
Testing will take place on Beta Commons. If you don’t yet have an
account set up there, you’ll need one. (direct link:
https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page )
-
Beta Commons is a testbed, and not configured exactly like the real
Commons site, so expect to see some discrepancies with UI elements like
search
-
Structured Data introduces the potential for many important page changes
to happen at once, which could flood the recent changes list. Because of
this, Enhanced Recent Changes
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Help:Enhanced_recent_changes> is enabled
as it currently is at Commons, but with some user interface changes.
-
Feedback and commentary on the file caption functionality are welcome
and encouraged on the discussion page for this post:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captio…
-
Some testing has already taken place and the team are aware of some
issues. A list of known issues can be seen below
-
If you discover a bug/issue that is not covered in the known issues,
please file a ticket on Phabricator and tag it with the “Multimedia” tag.
Use [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=mult…
this link to file a new task] already tagged with "Multimedia."
Known issues:
-
Search is not currently working on Beta Commons. Search is not needed
for testing captions, but service should be restored soon.
-
Language name display inconsistencies in multilingual file captions -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209380
-
Language names for multilingual File captions can run into the caption
value in the mobile view - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209333
-
Deleting a caption field that has text that exceeds the limit does not
re-enable the "publish" button -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209329
-
"Edit" tab for past revisions should be "restore" -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209187
-
When using the back button, recently added captions sometimes don't
display in Chrome - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208894
-
File Captions can't be edited on mobile browsers -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208993
-
Wrong font weight for some language labels on SDC captions box -
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208902
Thanks!
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
2.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Fee…
--
Keegan Peterzell
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation