Abstrakt Wikipedia

Abstrakt Wikipedia
Start:	2020-07
Team members:	Produkt Amy Tsay (Director of Product) Denny Vrandečić (Head of Special Projects) Design Amin Al Hazwani (Lead UX Designer) Relatioune mat der Communautéit Sannita (Movement Communications Specialist) Engineering Grace Choi (Senior Software Engineer) James Forrester (Principal Software Engineer; Tech Lead) Genoveva Galarza (Staff Software Engineer) David Martin (Staff Software Engineer) Cory Massaro (Staff Software Engineer) Elena Tonkovidova (Senior Test Engineer) Vaughn Walters (Test Engineer III)
Updates:	Updaten

Projet

Dëse Projet besteet aus zwee Deeler: Der Abstrakter Wikipedia a Wikifunctions.

D'Zil vun der Abstrakter Wikipedia ass et, méi Leit méi Wëssen a méi Sproochen deelen ze loossen. D'Abstrakt Wikipedia ass eng konzeptuell Erweiderung vu Wikidata. 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.

Wikifunctions is a new Wikimedia project that allows anyone to create and maintain code. This is useful in many different ways. It provides a catalog of all kinds of functions that anyone can call, write, maintain, and use. It also provides code that translates the language-independent article from Abstract Wikipedia into the language of a Wikipedia. This allows everyone to read the article in their language. Wikifunctions will use knowledge about words and entities from Wikidata.

This will get us closer to a world where everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge.

Wat ass eng Funktioun?

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.

Kuerz gesot: Funktioune maachen eng Berechnung op Basis vun den Donnéeën, déi Dir agitt, a beäntwerten domat Froen, déi Dir dozou hutt.

Dësen neie Wikimedia-Projet wäert eng Bibliothéik vu Funktiounen opbauen, déi vu Fräiwëllege geschriwwe gi fir ze hëllefen onofhängeg vun der Sprooch Äntwerten op Froe ze fannen. Andeems mir dës Bibliothéik weider ausbauen, erméigleche mir ëmmer méi Leit op fräit Wëssen zouzegräifen an et op nei Aarten z'exploréieren.

Wat ass d'Abstrakt Wikipedia?

Eng bildlech Erklärung vum Projet vun der Abstrakter Wikipedia a 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 has started with our shared work on natural language generation functions, such as morphological functions.

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).

Zäitplang

• 2013 - 2020: Projetsdiskussioun, Fuerschung a Virschlag
• Mee 2020: Projet accordéiert
• July 2020: Project announced; Development begins on Extension:WikiLambda; Mailing list and other channels created and in-depth discussions increase
• September 2020 - Dezember 2030: Concours fir den Numm vun der Wiki vun de Funktiounen
• Dezember 2020: Start vun den Diskussiounen fir de Wikifunctionslogoconcours a vum Areeche vu Virschléi
• August 2022: Start vu Wikifunctions an der Beta-Versioun
• Juli 2023: Start vu Wikifunctions an der Produktioun
• 2023/2024: Méi Typpe bei Wikifunctions derbäisetzen
• 2024: Wikidata fir Wikifunctions benotzen

Matmaachen

• Änneren
  • Zu Wikifunctions bäidroen
  • Work on lexicographic knowledge in Wikidata. This will be needed for Abstract Wikipedia to succeed and can be worked on right now.
  • Iwwersetzt d'Dokumentatiounssäiten hei op der Meta-Wiki.
  • Iwwersetzt d'Benotzeruewerfläch vun der Software op translatewiki.net (completion statistics)
• Diskutéieren
  • Read the weekly updates (subscribe)
  • Talk:Abstract Wikipedia
  • Dedicated mailing list
  • Haaptchat:
  • Entwéckler-Chat:
  • 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
• Entwéckelen
  • Wann Dir bei der Entwécklung hëllefe wëllt:
    • 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.
• Ausprobéieren
  • Wikifunctions is now available live at wikifunctions.org
  • op der Beta-Cluster-Instanz
  • Volunteer as a design-interview tester.
  • You can see some early mockups for a rough idea of how the user interface might work.
  • An early prototype implementation is available on Github. This may no longer be working with the latest MediaWiki releases.
    • The easiest way to dive into the prototype is by reading the 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.

Hannergrond

An article in the Signpost provides a more detailed introduction to the idea. The material below – research papers, videos of talks, prototype software – offers a lot of detail. A detailed draft plan for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is also available.

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:

• Short introductory video to Wikidata and the Abstract Wikipedia idea (New York, 2019) (18 min)
• Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia (short intro)
• Collaborating on the sum of all knowledge across languages (social aspects)

Fir weider ze liesen

• Wikifunctions als eegestännege Projet
• Visioun vun der Abstrakter Wikipedia
• Beispiller fir abstrakt Inhalter
• Glossaire

Plang vum Projet

1. Resümmee: Iwwerbléck iwwert de Plang vum Projet
2. Numm: Diskussioun iwwert den Numm bum Projet
3. Ziler: Wat probéiere mir z'erreechen? Primär a sekundär Zilsetzungen
4. Organisatioun: Wéi d'Entwécklerteam opgestallt wäert sinn
5. Ufuerderungen: allgemeng Konditiounen, déi de Projet erfëlle muss
6. Architektur: En Iwwerbléck doriwwer, wéi déi eenzel Komponente vum Projet anenee gräifen
7. Komponenten: Eenzel Software-Komponenten, déi de Projet liwwere muss
8. Aufgaben: Eenzel Aufgaben, déi vun de Projeten ofgeschafft musse ginn

(Versioun op enger Säit)