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Today's Topics:

   1. Generated texts (Gerard Meijssen)
   2. Re: Thiemo joins the dev team \o/ (Scott MacLeod)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:42:39 +0100
From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>,
        WikiData-l <wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikidata-l] Generated texts
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Hoi,

We have often had discussions about generating texts to be used in
Wikipedia articles. The drawback of articles that are generated in this way
is that they do not get updated as more information becomes available.

The data in Wikidata is comparable with the kind of data often used in such
processes.

The first kind texts that are generated bu the Reasonator are based on the
biographic information of a person. As Johann Sebastian Bach is a great
example of the power of both Wikidata and Reasonator, I invite you to have
a look [1].

The text is completely generated based on the information in Wikidata and
Magnus is very much in the process of iterating this functionality. What I
hope you will see as a challenge is writing similar functionality for other
languages.

What I hope for is that the Wikidata development team will appreciate this
for what its potential and support it when it is found that additional
technology is needed.
Thanks,
      GerardM


[1] http://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?q=Q1339
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:45:44 -0800
From: Scott MacLeod <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."
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Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Thiemo joins the dev team \o/
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Welcome, Thiemo,

So glad you think "code is poetry" and that you love every object
oriented programming language ... Happy coding! :)

Scott




On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hoi,
> Have fun and, make a difference :)
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
>
> On 5 February 2014 16:07, Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>wrote:
>
>> Hey everyone :)
>>
>> I'm really happy to let you know that we have another addition to
>> Wikimedia Germany's software development department. Thiemo is a
>> long-time Wikipedian and will help us out especially in Wikidata's
>> frontend development. Here's a bit more from him:
>>
>> "My Name is Thiemo (simply spelled "Timo") and I'm proud to have the
>> chance to become part of the software development department as a
>> front-end developer. Previously I coded interfaces for Windows Mobile
>> devices, helped coding games and DJ software as well as several
>> typical enterprise solutions (resource planning, warehouse management).
>> I'm an active Wikipedia user for 10 years now, mainly working on
>> technical stuff (templates, JavaScript gadgets, mangling bugs) as well
>> as organizational tasks (e.g. moderating deletion requests and
>> requests for comments).
>> To quote a colleague: I think "code is poetry" and I love every object
>> oriented programming language (JavaScript being kind of an exception
>> here) and supports regular expressions, my all-day Swiss army knife."
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> Lydia
>>
>> --
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>> Product Manager for Wikidata
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