Abstract Wikipedia/Goals

This is part of the development plan for Abstract Wikipedia.

Continues from name of the wiki of functions.

The project has ambitious primary and a whole set of secondary goals.

Primary goals

• Allowing more people to read more content in the language they choose.
• Allowing more people to contribute content for more readers, and thus increasing the reach of underrepresented contributors.

Secondary goals

Secondary goals include, but are not limited to:

• Reusable and well-tested natural language generation.
• Allowing other Wikimedia communities and external parties to create content in more languages.
• Improving communication and knowledge accessibility well beyond the Wikipedia projects.
• Develop a novel, much more comprehensive approach to knowledge representation.
• Develop a novel approach to represent the result of natural language understanding.
• A library of functions.
• Allowing the development and sharing of functions in the user’s native languages, instead of requiring them to learn English first.
• Allowing everyone to share in functions and to run them.
• Introducing a new form of knowledge asset for a Wikimedia project to manage.
• Introducing novel components to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects that allow for interactive features.
• Create functions working on top of Wikidata’s knowledge base, thus adding inference to increase the coverage of Wikidata data considerably.
• Catalyzing research and development in democratizing coding interfaces.
• Enabling scientists and analysts to share and work on models collaboratively.
• Share specifications and tests for functions.
• The possibility to refer to semantics of functions through well-defined identifiers.
• Faster development of new programming languages due to accessing a wider standard library (or repository) of functions in a new dedicated wiki.
• Defining algorithm and approaches for standards and technique descriptions.
• Providing access to powerful functions to be integrated in novel machine learning systems.

The list is not exhaustive.

Continued in Development organization.