Scott,
It is perfectly legitimate to be "anti-racist," but races are completely
artificial constructs. Racial conflict was interposed during the "tea
party" astroturfing in response to the Occupy movements:
https://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/hyoogt/is_this_accurate/fze7t5c/
Do
Scott,
thank you for raising this really important issue, and I whole-heartedly
agree. Since I heard of Ibram X. Kendi's argument to not just be not racist
but rather be actively anti-racist, I thought a lot about it (I have a long
essay trying to sort my thoughts on that, but I am not sure my
If "anti-classist" is your way of writing "empowering the less-powerful",
then sure. As the rest of my email indicates, I'm choosing to focus on
language and language groups, since that's the most direct relation to the
output and input technologies of Abstract Wikimedia. Obviously there is no
On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:01 PM Samuel Klein wrote:
> We used to have a roughly weighted list of major world languages by
> (spoken, written; primary, secondary) and how well covered they were by wp
> (articles, contributors). Is there something like that still?
>
I think you might be referring
I applaud this idea. Preferably a language family with a large community of
practice, 'minority' in the sense of coverage and support by modern tools
and scaffolding, not in the sense of limited use.
We used to have a roughly weighted list of major world languages by
(spoken, written; primary,
Sorry I'm coming to this discussion a bit late, but I'd like to underline a
slightly different aspect of the concern that Phoebe raised:
> It concerns me that, at least in the high-level project proposals I've
> seen (I haven't been tracking this closely, and haven't read the academic
> papers) I
Denny,
This is extraordinarily good news! I am thrilled that the Foundation and the
Community has taken it on board. I think it is a truly seminal, pivotal project
for promulgating free knowledge to all corners of humanity. I just could not be
happier to know that you will be shepherding the
Anyone object to using loglan as an interlingua?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loglan
On Saturday, July 4, 2020, phoebe ayers wrote:
> Thanks Denny! I appreciate this, and your thoughtfulness as always.
>
> Thanks for starting an explicit discussion. I think our field (meaning,
> computer
Hoi,
HAPPY NEWS :)
We will learn a lot, experience many challenges and it does have the
potential to provide more of the information that is available to us.
Particularly in languages other than English the impact can be huge.
At a Wikidata conference in Berlin we had someone from PanLex present
Thank you Gnangarra! And Butch, and Lodewijk, and Brion, and Erik, and
Joāo, and Christophe, and Isaac, and Galder, and Daniel, and SJ, and
Phoebe, and everyone else, thank you all for the congratulations, and for
your interest!
I am also very excited, and looking forward to it - and thanks in
Thanks Denny! I appreciate this, and your thoughtfulness as always.
Thanks for starting an explicit discussion. I think our field (meaning,
computer science & internet projects broadly) often assumes that these
questions will just arise in context, or get solved as we go, but they
rarely do. So
Thank you Phoebe for the congratulations, and thank you for the
considerations, and I agree with them.
On wiki, Denis Barthel and Ryan Kaldari already raised a number of the
concerns - although not all - that you are raising here.
Thank you SJ, thank you all, for your very welcoming words, and your
congratulations!
Regarding Wikispore, yes, this is one of the first conversations that we
will have - where the preparatory discussions should happen. I am very much
in favor of Wikispore for that, as it is literally meant for
Congratulations to everyone, this is exciting.
It is also very exciting that we have an almost-unprecedented opportunity
to build a new project that is fully informed by both lessons from own past
projects, as well as from the rapidly developing field of ethics in
computer science and AI. From
sounds like a wonderful project that will help connect cultures and
languages in a helpful way for the users, look forward to seeing and
helping its development
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 09:26, Butch Bustria wrote:
> Congratulations on this new opportunity!
>
> Once it rolls out to us content
Congratulations on this new opportunity!
Once it rolls out to us content contributors, we will be glad to be a part
of it.
Kind regards,
Butch Bustria
On Fri, Jul 3, 2020, 12:39 AM Denny Vrandečić wrote:
> Katherine, thank you for the warm welcome and your kind words!
>
> I am very happy
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> > > From: Wikimedia-l on behalf
> of
> > > Isaac Olatunde
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:01 PM
> > > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new
> >
This is wonderful news. :)
Thank you for the foresight to support this important initiative, and
huge thanks to Denny for continuing to tirelessly explore new ways to
make knowledge truly universally accessible! This project has the
potential to become a new foundation for learning about our
Denny, this is very exciting! Congratulations to this wonderful opportunity.
We should definitely organize a Wikidata Lab on the new project and how we
can engage with it. (We might actually have to change the name of the labs,
damn!) Whenever you think is the right time for this event and if you
a-l on behalf of
> > Isaac Olatunde
> > Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:01 PM
> > To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new
> > Wikimedia project: Abstract Wikipedia
> >
> > Wow! This is a great new
Congratulations
>
> Galder
>
> From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of
> Isaac Olatunde
> Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:01 PM
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing a new
> Wik
Best news all year. Thank you for moving swiftly on this :)
It has been a fine thing too, to see WikiLambda experiments on Wikispore.
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org
I hope this may Herald a new wave of new and complementary projects. There
are yet so many types of knowledge that have not found a
Excited to see even how this mind-blowing idea comes to live!
Congratulations
Galder
From: Wikimedia-l on behalf of Isaac
Olatunde
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:01 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing
Wow! This is a great news.
Thanks for sharing Katherine.
With best wishes
Isaac.
On Thu, 2 Jul 2020, 17:39 Denny Vrandečić, 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
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
Hi,
This is really an exciting news. This ambitious project will fill up the
knowledge gaps in different languages for sure and will definitely play a
vital role in preserving endangered and near-extinct languages in future.
Best wishes,
Bodhisattwa
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 21:54 Brion Vibber
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
Excellent news. Congratulations and glad to see this project being approved.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020, 9:34 PM Katherine Maher 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
>
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