Thank you Gnangarra! And Butch, and Lodewijk, and Brion, and Erik, and
Joāo, and Christophe, and Isaac, and Galder, and Daniel, and SJ, and
Phoebe, and everyone else, thank you all for the congratulations, and for
your interest!
I am also very excited, and looking forward to it - and thanks in
particular to everyone who expressed willingness to help - there will be
plenty of opportunity for that :)
Thank you all,
Denny
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 10:05 PM Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
sounds like a wonderful project that will help connect
cultures and
languages in a helpful way for the users, look forward to seeing and
helping its development
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 09:26, Butch Bustria <bustrias(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Congratulations on this new opportunity!
Once it rolls out to us content contributors, we will be glad to be a
part
of it.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 12:39 AM Denny Vrandečić <vrandecic(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Katherine, thank you for the warm welcome and
your kind words!
I am very happy to be given the opportunity to start this new project,
and
deeply honored by the trust and confidence of the
Board and the
Foundation.
>
> Thanks to the many who have listened to me talking about this project
in
the last
few years, read my papers and plans, commented on them,
scrutinized them, and offered encouragement, criticism, and advice.
Thanks
> to everyone who expressed their support and raised their concerns on
the
proposal
page on Meta [1]. It is thanks to you that the Board was
confident
enough to make this decision.
There is a lot of work in front of us, and I will continue to rely on
your
> guidance and collective wisdom. We will need to foster a new community.
> Just as with Wikidata, I hope that some of you will become active in
the
> new community, and I also want to make sure
that we will be welcoming
to
new
contributors. We want to extend and grow the Wikimedia movement not
only with new functionalities, but also with new people.
Settling in this new position will take quite a bit of my attention in
the
> next few weeks, so please forgive me if I may be slow with answering
your
questions
between now and then. One of the first things we’ll do is to
set
up new communication channels. We will continue
discussing the project
and
> planning on Meta [2] for now and also welcome you to the new, dedicated
> mailing list [3].
>
> One of our first tasks together will be to find a name for the
project. A
first set
of proposals have already been made [4], and I invite you all
to
> come up with more ideas. We will start that off in July or August. Did
I
> mention that you can join us on Meta [2] to
discuss proposals for
names,
the
project itself, and much more?
Again, thank you all! I am super excited about figuring this thing out
with
you, and am looking forward to coming back to
Wikimedia full-time.
Stay safe,
Denny
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Abstract_Wikipedia
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia
wrote:
I'm extremely excited about this project!
Not only will this be directly useful on its own (and a fascinating
project
in its own right!), but it will help our
volunteer editors to ramp up
good
> base material to work with on the "prose" Wikipedias we already know
and
love.
The idea is really to make the structured data we've all been putting
into
> Wikidata available in a human-readable form at a big scale, that's
still
> > able to be shaped and made into something real and readable by human
> > editors. By moving around where in the chain the data gets expressed
as
human language, we hope to make something that's
just as editable but
much
> more maintainable in the future and across multiple languages.
>
> -- brion
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:04 AM Katherine Maher <kmaher(a)wikimedia.org
> wrote:
>
> > (A translatable version of this announcement can be found on Meta
[1])
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It is my honor to introduce Abstract Wikipedia [1], a new project
that
has
> been unanimously approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees.
> > Abstract Wikipedia proposes a new way to generate baseline
encyclopedic
> > content in a multilingual fashion,
allowing more contributors and
more
> > > readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an
approach
that
> > aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our projects,
increase
the
> sustainability of our movement through expanding access to
participation,
> > improve the user experience for readers of all languages, and
innovate
> in
> > > free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement
to
> > > create something new.
> > >
> > > This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract
Wikipedia
> was
> > > submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May of 2020
[2]
> > after
> > > years of preparation and research, leading to a detailed plan and
> lively
> > > discussions in the Wikimedia communities. We know that the energy
and
> the
> > > creativity of the community often runs up against language
barriers,
and
> > information that is available in one language may not make it to
other
> > language Wikipedias. Abstract Wikipedia
intends to look and feel
like a
> > > Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent
conceptual
> > > models of Wikidata, with the goal
of letting volunteers create and
> > maintain
> > > Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world.
> > >
> > > The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of
an
> > > article using words and entities
from Wikidata. Because Wikidata
uses
> > > conceptual models that are meant
to be universal across languages,
it
> >
should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of
knowledge
> to
> > create models for articles that also have universal value. Using
code,
> > > volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into
> their
> > > own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone
to
read
> about any topic in Wikidata in their own language.
>
> As you can imagine, this work will require a lot of software
development,
> and a lot of cooperation among Wikimedians.
In order to make this
effort
> > possible, Denny will join the Foundation as a staff member in July
and
> lead
> > this initiative. You may know Denny as the creator of Wikidata, a
> long-time
> > community member, a former staff member at Wikimedia Deutschland,
and a
> > former Trustee at the Wikimedia
Foundation[3]. We are very excited
that
> > Denny will bring his skills and
expertise to work on this project
> alongside
> > the Foundation’s product, technology, and community liaison teams.
> >
> > It is important to acknowledge that this is an experimental project
and
> > > that every Wikipedia community has different needs. This project
may
> > offer
> > > some communities great advantages. Other communities may engage
less.
Every
> language Wikipedia community will be free to choose and moderate
whether
or
> how they would use content from this project.
>
> We are excited that this new wiki-project has the possibility to
advance
> > knowledge equity through increased access to knowledge. It also
invites
> > us
> > > to consider and engage with critical questions about how and by
whom
> knowledge is constructed. We look forward to
working in cooperation
with
> > the communities to think through these important questions.
> >
> > There is much to do as we begin designing a plan for Abstract
Wikipedia
> > in
> > > close collaboration with our communities. I encourage you to get
> involved
> > > by going to the project page and joining the new mailing list[4].
We
> > > recognize that Abstract Wikipedia
is ambitious, but we also
recognize
> its
> > > potential. We invite you all to join us on a new, unexplored path.
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > > Katherine Maher
> > >
> > > Executive Director,
> > > Wikimedia Foundation
> > >
> > > [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract
> > > Wikipedia/June 2020 announcement
> > > [2]
> >
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Abstract_Wikipedia
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/abstract-wikipedia
> >
--
> >
> > Katherine Maher (she/her)
> >
> > Executive Director
> >
> > Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
> >
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