That is a great news!!! Congratulations :)
Just so we are all on the same page, the last approved project was Wikidata right?
And back then, one of initial core members of the project was someone called Denny Vrandečić too, right?
Denny, I'm happy to say that is how patterns start...
Stay safe and take care ^^
Le jeu. 2 juil. 2020 à 7:28 PM, Daniel Mietchen via Wikimedia-l < wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> a écrit :
Good to see such an abstract proposal to reach this point on the way towards becoming a very real Wikimedia project! d.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 1:05 PM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga < galder158@hotmail.com> wrote:
Excited to see even how this mind-blowing idea comes to live!
Congratulations
Galder ________________________________ From: Wikimedia-l wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of Isaac Olatunde reachout2isaac@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:01 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia
Wow! This is a great news.
Thanks for sharing Katherine.
With best wishes
Isaac.
On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, 17:39 Denny Vrandečić, vrandecic@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
[3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/abstract-wikipedia [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Name
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 9:24 AM Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org
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@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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