Aliyu Shaba,
All,
Thank you. I will get started on a fuller proposal for Meta-Wiki, upcoming. I welcome any
ideas for the proposal.
I will continue to brainstorm about overlaps between wiki technologies, computational
notebooks, and Web-based client front-end concepts.
Initial ideas include that wiki-notebooks could be categorized and organized (including
folksonomically), searched for, and have accompanying talk pages.
In theory, instead of having to create blank notebooks, editors could select task-specific
templates and/or make use of input forms to create rough-draft notebook sketches for
subsequent completion.
By processing computational notebooks as editors create and revise them: (1) anomalous
usage scenarios could be detected, (2) AI assistants could contextually recommend
documentation, and (3) AI assistants could contextually recommend options for populating
cells with code sketches and code completions.
Best regards,
Adam
________________________________
From: Shaba 50 <aliyuy921(a)gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 3:04 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikinotebooks: A Wiki for Computational Notebooks
Hi Adam,
Thank you for your email and the exciting ideas you shared for a new Wikimedia sister
project: Wikinotebooks. I find the concept of a wiki-style, multi-user collaboration
platform for notebook-based computing to be intriguing and potentially transformative for
our community.
I appreciate the detailed explanation of how Wikinotebooks could enhance the generation
and utilization of multimedia resources, streamline data processing and visualization, and
facilitate interconnectedness between various components of the Wikimedia ecosystem. The
integration with Wikidata and the ability to leverage JavaScript or Python for data
manipulation opens up a wide range of possibilities for computational exploration and
knowledge creation.
I am also intrigued by the potential synergies between Wikinotebooks and the proposed
Wikianswers project.
Collaborative notebook environments could provide a valuable platform for developing and
refining answers to complex questions and fostering discussions among experts and
enthusiasts.
Thank you again for your initiative and thoughtfulness. I look forward to continuing the
conversation and working together to advance the Wikimedia movement.
Best regards,
Aliyu Shaba.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2024, 1:05 PM Adam Sobieski
<adamsobieski@hotmail.com<mailto:adamsobieski@hotmail.com>> wrote:
Wikimedia,
Inspired by computational-notebook technologies including Project
Jupyter<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter> and Jupyter
AI<https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-ai>ai>, I am pleased to share some ideas for a
new Wikimedia sister project: Wikinotebooks.
A Wikinotebooks project would enable new, wiki-style, multi-user collaboration scenarios
with respect to notebook-based computing in a way tightly integrated with the Wikimedia
software ecosystem.
With notebook-based computing, multimedia resources could be generated by people and AI,
these resources including: 3D graphics, animations, audio, charts, diagrams, figures,
graphs, images, infographics, maps, mathematical expressions, pictures, and video.
Editors would be able to log on to Wikinotebooks, create a new notebook, query data from
Wikidata, run some program logic (e.g., JavaScript or Python) on that data to generate a
chart, save that chart to Commons, and then add that chart to a Wikipedia article.
As envisioned, computational notebooks would be stored on Wikinotebooks, generated
multimedia resources would be stored on Commons, and these notebooks and multimedia
resources would remain interconnected. Persisted interconnectivity between data, queries,
computational notebooks, and multimedia resources would streamline providing deliverables.
For instance, updates to backing data could result in automatic updates to multimedia
resources, e.g., charts, and/or in notifications to interested editors that new revisions
were available.
A Wikinotebooks project would, additionally, enhance the development of another proposed
sister project:
Wikianswers<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikianswers>rs>.
In the event of any interest, I could write a fuller proposal for a Wikinotebooks project
on Meta-Wiki<https://meta.wikimedia.org>. Thank you.
Best regards,
Adam Sobieski
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