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We need a draft wiki that supports knowledge-generation experiments. Something that anyone / anybot can edit, with permalinks to historical revisions but no barriers to making changes. Including draft media, data, articles, and models / modules / scripts.
Current discussion
NPP? & New 'Pedia blog post.

Ideas

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  • Machine learning and AI models need a place to share generated translations, captions, descriptions, without being blocked for not crossing the quality threshold of a particular wiki community. These partial results can be used to improve future models, and as drafts for people / tools to draw on when editing other projects.
  • GLAM institutions need a 'neutral zone' to stage uploading bulk media, metadata, and texts.
  • Libraries that may have millions of records need a space to post freely-licensed versions of their abstracts and descriptions (w/o being reverted)
  • Local organizations and communities w/o a depth of reliable sources writing about their topic need a place to develop free content about their topics of focus. (w/o arguing about notability)
  • Pop culture needs a place to capture information about breaking fads (w/o having to go to Fandom).
  • WikiSpores need a place to merge their namespaces (at worst into a disambiguated __NAME (spore)__ where there's a conflict).
  • for newbies (adults): an entrypoint to the new knowledge ecosystem. (discoverable evergreen content about any topic)
  • for kids and parents: a chatbot that kids are comfortable with, that draws on Wikiverse and not .com sites (that parents can be comfortable exposing them to // could be a filter or setting on Siri and other home agents)
  • for young users (from Sat talk): places on the internet that don't suck; that aren't cesspools of harassment and trolling; that aren't denominated in gaming, gambling, and influencers
  • for governments an archives: a place that is designed to capture regional knowledge (before it disappears; appealing to everyone). no restrictions based on notability, license clearance [that comes after capturing it as discoverable knowledge whose uploaders/authors release all ©]
  • for bots + agents: a place that's fun and useful to contribute to, as shared resource
  • for all: an experimental draft space where it's okay to be wrong and make mistakes

Interface features

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  1. natural language interface
  2. uploads that support a range of formats + do transcoding (like I.Archive)
  3. clear message about participation: "share what you know; everyone can edit"
  4. drafts auto-saved; simple copilot completion + background processing available
  5. queue for requests / interests
  6. APIs for automated contribs (edits, reviews, uploads), may invite N reviews for each post
  7. bulk imports from deep knowledge catalogs (in whole or for summarization + linking out)
  8. tool like Recaptcha for making stabilizing use of interest from high-volume contributors

Challenges

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  • Deletionism on current projects.
  • Still need to counter spam/abuse.


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