Abstract Wikipedia

Abstract Wikipedia
Start:	2020-07
Team members:	Denny Vrandečić (Head of Special Projects) Product Amy Tsay (Director of Product), Megan Neisler (Senior Data Scientist) Design Amin Al Hazwani (Lead UX Designer) Community Relations Quiddity (Community Relations Specialist), Sannita (Community Relations Specialist) Engineering James Forrester (Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead), Genoveva Galarza (Staff Software Engineer), Cory Massaro (Staff Software Engineer), David Martin (Staff Software Engineer), Stef Dunlap (Staff Software Engineer in Test), Elena Etonkovidova (QA Engineer)
Updates:	Updates

Proyekto

Igwa nin duwang parte an proyekto na ini: Abstract Wikipedia asin Wikilambda.

An katuyuhan kan "Abstract Wikipedia" iyo an maghiras nin mga kaaraman sa mas gulpi pang lenggwahe. Ekstensiyon kan Wikidata an Abstract Wikipedia. Sa Abstract Wikipedia, an mga tawo makakahaman asin makakamantenir nin mga artikulo sa Wikipedia sa paaging language-independent. An Wikipedia sa sarong lenggwahe maipapalis sa bagong language-independent na artikulo. An code iyo an minagibo kan pagpapalis kan tataramon. In Abstract Wikipedia, people can create and maintain Wikipedia articles in a language-independent way. A particular language Wikipedia can translate this language-independent article into its language. Code does the translation.

An "Wikilambda" sarong Wikimedia project na nagtutugot sa paghaman asin pagmantenir nin mga code. Kapuro-pakinabang ini sa pirang mga paagi. Nagtatau inin nin catalog kan gabos na function na an dawa si isay pwede mag-call, surat, manteniron, asin paggamit. Nagtatau man ini nin language-independent na artikulo hali sa Abstract Wikipedia pasiring sa Wikipedia na igwa nin ibang lenggwahe. Sa paagi kaini mababasa kan iba an artikulo sa sainda man na lenggwahe. An Wikilambda magamit nin mga kaaraman sa mga tataramon asin entities hali sa Wikidata.

Mas magiging marikas ining paagi sa paghihiras nin kaaraman sa kinaban kun sain gabos makakapag-ambag kan saindang kaaraman.

What is a function?

A "function" is a sequence of computer program instructions that makes a calculation based on data you provide. Functions are a form of knowledge that can answer questions, such as how many days have passed between two dates or the distance between two cities. More complicated functions can answer more complicated questions, such as the volume of a three dimensional shape, the distance between Mars and Venus on a certain date, or whether two species were alive at the same time. We already use functions in many types of knowledge inquiries, such as asking a question to a search engine. The templates known as {{convert}} and {{age}} in English are also examples of functionalities that are already used in many Wikipedias, written in wikitext and Lua and manually copied to each wiki where it's wanted.

More examples of functions are at Early function examples, and very rough sketches of how the interface might look are at Early mockups.

In short, functions make a calculation on the data you provide, and answer a question you have about it.

This new Wikimedia project will build a library of functions, written by volunteers, to help answer questions like these across languages. By building out our library of functions, we can enable more people to access and explore free knowledge in new ways.

What is Abstract Wikipedia?

A visual explanation of the Abstract Wikipedia project and Wikifunctions

The term “Abstract Wikipedia” itself refers to the long-term goal – that this library of functions will someday enable the creation of language-independent articles. Once more pieces of this project are in place, this will mean that any wiki – especially small to medium wikis – will be able to dramatically increase the number of articles available in their language. It also means that editors can share knowledge from their culture and contexts with a larger and more global audience.

The new wiki of functions, Wikifunctions, will develop the coding infrastructure to make this vision possible. The Abstract Wikipedia part of the project will start in roughly 2022.

In other words: we will be able to combine the functions from the new wiki, with the data and linguistic-information in Wikidata, in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).

Linyang-oras

• 2013–2020: Project discussion, research, and proposal
• May 2020: Project approved
• July 2020: Project announced; Development begins on Extension:WikiLambda; Mailing list and other channels created and in-depth discussions increase
• September 2020 – December 2020: Wiki of functions naming contest.
• December 2020: Start discussions for the Wikifunctions logo contest and submissions of proposals.
• August 2022: Launch Wikifunctions Beta
• July 2023: Launch Wikifunctions in production
• 2023/2024: Add more types to Wikifunctions
• 2024: Using Wikidata in Wikifunctions

Mailing list link

• Edit
  • Contribute to Wikifunctions
  • Work on lexicographic knowledge in Wikidata. This will be needed for Abstract Wikipedia to succeed and can be worked on right now.
  • Translate the documentation pages here on Meta-wiki.
  • Translate the software interface on translatewiki.net (completion statistics)
• Discuss
  • Read the weekly updates (subscribe)
  • Talk:Abstract Wikipedia
  • Dedicated mailing list
  • Main chat: Telegram or IRC #wikipedia-abstract^connect (bridged together) (current logs, old logs)
  • Developer chat: Telegram or IRC #wikipedia-abstract-tech^connect (bridged together) (logs)
  • Regular meetings:
    • Volunteer's corner: This is a monthly meeting on the first Monday, from 18:30–19:00 UTC. It is currently hosted on the Google Meet platform (link). It is an informal space for code review, talking about what volunteers have achieved or how to approach a task, which task is best to pick up next, and similar. Volunteers can come in with questions, show progress, discuss things, tell us about their plans, or ask for ideas. If you need someone specific from the development team to join in, please let us know in advance.
    • Natural language generation (NLG) on Wikifunctions: This is a monthly meeting on the third Tuesday, from 16:30–17:30 UTC. More information.
    • Previous office hours: 2021-12-20, 2021-08-14 (Wikimania), 2021-06-22
• Develop
  • If you want to help with development:
    • You can see information about the Extension at Extension:WikiLambda and some developer tips at Abstract developer cheatsheet
    • Phabricator:tag/abstract wikipedia – Add feature requests and bug reports here. (See Phabricator for details on how to use it)
      • You can see a list of smaller development tasks – These are good first tasks for newer developers.
      • You can see these other good listings for open tasks: #fix-it tasks – unassigned tasks – nice-to-have tasks
    • You can email Quiddity or write on the talk page if you'd like to work with us more closely.
• Try it out
  • on the Beta Cluster Instance
  • Volunteer as a design-interview tester.
  • You can see some early mockups for a rough idea of how the user interface might work.
  • prototype implementation is available on Github.
    • An pinakamadaling paagi tanganing makaduman sa prototype iyo an pagbasa kaini walkthrough.
    • Alternative implementation in GraalVM
• Foundation requests for work internally
  • You can refer to this guide that describes step by step how to request work internally.

Background / supporting material / existing discussion

An article in the Signpost nagtatau nin mas detalyadong introduksyon para sa ideyang ini. An mga materyales sa ibaba - research papers, videos kan urulay, prototype software - nagtatau nin gulping mga detalye. Igwa nin detailed draft plan para sa pagpatalubo kan Wikilambda an pwedeng mahiling.

See the Historic proposal page for the long list of related discussions, papers, videos, and comparable proposals.

Originally, the project was code-named Wikilambda, derived from Lambda calculus. The name is still referenced in the name of Extension:WikiLambda and in the Wikifunctions logo which contains a lambda character.

Highlights include:

• [$y1 Short intro to Wikidata and Abstract Wikipedia idea (New York, 2019)] (18 minutos)
• Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia (halipot na pataratara)
• [$4 Collaborating on the sum of all knowledge across languages]

(sosyal na mga aspeto)

Iba pang mga babasahon

• Wikilambda bilang sadiri kaining proyekto
• Katuyohan kan Wikilambda
• Hilingan kan abstract Content
• Glosaryo

Plano kan proyekto

1. Sumaryo: kagabsan kan project plan
2. Ngaran: diskusyon sa ngaran kan proyekto
3. Mga kakaabtan:Ano an pigpupulbaran ming kaabtan? Panginot sagkud panduwang mga kakaabtan
4. Organisasyon:Pano magkakaigwa nin development team
5. Mga kaipuhan: pangkagabsan na kondisyon na kaipuhan mahaman kan proyekto
6. Arkitektura:sarong paghiling kun panong an mga parte kan proyektong ini matarabangan sa kada saro
7. Mga Parte: individual software components na kaipuhan maidisimanar kan proyekto
8. Mga trabaho: mga indibidwal na trabaho na dapat mahaman kan proyekto

(single page version)

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