Hello everybody,
we are pleased to announce that Wikifunctions is up and running at
http://www.wikifunctions.org/
After a few days in read-only, the website now has some limited
functionality for you to try out. Thank you to everyone who helped deploy
our first new Wikimedia project in over 12
I think Jimmy's proposal is spot on.
A generative AI is a tool, and whoever makes the edit is fully responsible
for the edit, no matter whether the text was written by the person or with
the help of a generative tool. This has the potential to open us for people
who are not good at formulating,
; messy and variable truths it actually depicts is an injustice. It is an
> injustice not only for Wikipedians but also for people around the world who
> use the resource — either directly on Wikimedia servers or indirectly via
> other platforms like search."
>
>
>
> ---o0o---
Hello all,
Here is a conversation and decision we need to have before launch of
Wikifunctions:
*How should the contents of Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions be
licensed?*
Since the discussion is expected to be potentially complicated, let us keep
a single place of record for discussing this
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 2:35 AM Andy Mabbett
wrote:
> Can they not do that already?
>
They already may.
This resolution by the Board directs the Foundation to offer support for
this task to the affiliates.
___
Wikimedia-l mailing list --
0110614170356/http://noc.wikimedia.org/~tstarling/wikipedia-logs-2001-08-17.7z
>
> But it would still be nice to know that the archives are still maintained
> by Wikimedia though.
>
>
>
> On Oct 7, 2021, at 8:58 PM, Denny Vrandečić
> wrote:
>
> Or even better, if there is a Web acc
Or even better, if there is a Web accessible version of these early edits.
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 5:57 PM Denny Vrandečić
wrote:
> I wanted to see the beginning of the article about Jupiter.
>
> When I go to Jupiter's revision history and click on oldest, I get here:
I wanted to see the beginning of the article about Jupiter.
When I go to Jupiter's revision history and click on oldest, I get here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jupiter=prev=history
which takes me to the revision as of November 5, 2001:
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
Congratulations! Looking forward to see the results of this initiative!
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:54 AM Galder Gonzalez Larrañaga <
galder...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
> It is a real pleasure to announce the agreement reached between Basque
> Wikimedians User Group and the Government of
gt;
> >
> >
> > 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 h
; and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages. It is an
>> approach that aims to make cross-lingual cooperation easier on our
>> projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding
>> access to participation, improve the user experience for re
on easier on our
>> projects, increase the sustainability of our movement through expanding
>> access to participation, improve the user experience for readers of all
>> languages, and innovate in free knowledge by connecting some of the
>> strengths of our movement to cre
nnovate in
> > free knowledge by connecting some of the strengths of our movement to
> > create something new.
> >
> > This is our first new project in over seven years. Abstract Wikipedia was
> > submitted as a project proposal by Denny Vrandečić in May of 2020 [2]
proposal and setting this up formally as
> a sibling projet?
>
> Is there anything Wikispore could do to help get something like this
> underway? //S
>
> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 3:28 PM Denny Vrandečić
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > after talki
Hello all,
after talking about it a few times here, the official proposal for creating
the multilingual Wikipedia proposal is now on Meta.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda
The idea is to create abstract, language-independent content in Wikidata,
and then translate it into natural
f your proposal, which I haven't come across yet? Thank you
> for this great development!
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:49 PM Denny Vrandečić
> wrote:
>
> > Elevator pitch:
> >
> > Many Wikipedia language editions have large
ntent translation framework is
mine, it very much isn't. There is a wonderful team at the Foundation that
has created and maintained this over years, and they recently had a rather
stormy uptick in translations, having lead to more than 600,000 translated
articles. I cannot praise their hard wo
020 at 01:52, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
>
> > As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a multilingual
> > Wikipedia for a few years now.
>
> What's the elevator pitch for this?
>
>
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigs
Yay! Thanks for the positive note! This is appreciated!
Stay safe,
Denny
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:44 AM Peter Southwood <
peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote:
> Based on my first read-through of the paper, I think this would be
> something worth doing.
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
> -Original
As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a multilingual
Wikipedia for a few years now. Two other publications on this are here, I
have bothered you with mails about it here previously too:
https://research.google/pubs/pub48057/
https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah
I've
we create the abstractions, but also because one can
> > potentially think of images as representations that are already abstract.
> >
> > Best,
> > Leila
> >
> > --
> > Leila Zia
> > Senior Research Scientist, Lead
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> >
>
published previously.
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 11:32 Denny Vrandečić Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in
> a way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize
> the shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and
> w
Semantic Web languages allow to express ontologies and knowledge bases in a
way meant to be particularly amenable to the Web. Ontologies formalize the
shared understanding of a domain. But the most expressive and widespread
languages that we know of are human natural languages, and the largest
<
hellm...@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Hi Denny,
>
> On 18.05.2018 02:54, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
>
> Rob Speer wrote:
> > The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified
> > versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines
Rob Speer wrote:
> The result of this, by the way, is that commercial entities sell modified
> versions of Wikidata with impunity. It undermines the terms of other
> resources such as DBPedia, which also contains facts extracted from
> Wikipedia and respects its Share-Alike terms. Why would anyone
About one and a half years ago, there was a consultation process about
updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use to move from CC 3.0 to 4.0 licenses.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_use/Creative_Commons_4.0
I would like to ask what the status of this proposal is, and whom to bother
to get
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Sorry for having missed the irony.
Cheers,
Denny
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 2:39 AM mathieu stumpf guntz <
psychosl...@culture-libre.org> wrote:
>
>
> Le 07/12/2017 à 18:12, Denny Vrandečić a écrit :
>
> Mathieu,
>
> you wrote
>
>
Mathieu,
you wrote
> Despite the fact that reaching community consensus is an easy task,
I just wanted to check whether that was a typo, irony, or actually meant
that way. In the latter case, I would like to ask for {{cn}}.
Reaching and establishing community consensus seems to me one of the
Scott,
The NC license clause is problematic in a number of jurisdictions. For
example, at least in Germany, as I remember from my law classes, it also
would definitively include not-for-profits, NGOs, and even say bloggers,
with or without ads on their sites. One must always be careful in the
r products supported by the Wikimedia Foundation" referred to in Wes
> Moran's initial post on this topic:
>
> But I appreciate the speed of your reply.
>
> "Rogol"
>
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
&
Rogol,
this was the link previously provided on this project:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Overview including
links to previous documents.
Cheers,
Denny
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 9:32 AM Rogol Domedonfors
wrote:
> Lisa
>
> You say that
Also, to add, for this particular grant I can really only look positively
at the openness surrounding the writing of the grant. There have been
emails on this list inviting input and discussion when the grant proposal
was underway, a lot of content was available on-wiki, and an effort was
made to
at 2:23 PM Jan Macura <macura...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2016-10-07 20:34 GMT+02:00 Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com>:
>
> Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or
> coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to
&g
Wikidata allows to set a coordinate system - it is called a globe or
coordinate system - on every coordinate. This would be the natural place to
specify whether it is WGS84 or GDA94 or another system. Most of them are
Q2, which, as per data model, is indeed WGS84.
Just a few points of clarification:
* I have, to the best of my memory, passed on information only with the
understanding of my sources. If any of my sources disagrees with that,
please send me a message - I want to know and understand that I made a
mistake there.
* We are not talking about the
ke <wikipe...@zog.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Just to be sure I understand the issue: staff members reached out
> > specifically to the four of you and asked for confidentiality, and then
> the
> > Board demanded 'all documents', presumably including some confidential
> > staff
In the following I want to present a personal account of events leading to
James’ removal as a Board member, as I remember them. It was written while
I was still on the Board, and the Board agreed on having it sent. The text
was heavily discussed and edited amongst members of the Board, but in the
On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:18 AM Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> According to Denny, Wikidata, under its CC0 licence, must not import data
> from Share-Alike sources. He reconfirmed this yesterday when I asked him
> whether he still stood by that.
>
> In practice though we have
Very interesting read (via Brandon Harris):
http://recode.net/2015/07/07/doing-something-about-the-impossible-problem-of-abuse-in-online-games/
"the vast majority of negative behavior ... did not originate from the
persistently negative online citizens; in fact, 87 percent of online
toxicity
Wikidata should know whether an article has a badge or not (see here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1156 )
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 4:14 AM Tito Dutta trulyt...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks a lot. It was very helpful
No, most of these Wikipedias don't have such categories. I'll check
further.
25% turnout is amazing!! Thank you, and congratulations to WM UA,
particularly given the political situation at home.
I also collected a few thoughts about the elections here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Denny/Thoughts_Board_Election_2015
Thanks to the Election Committee and everyone
Erik,
thank you! Thank you for so many, many things. Even though we did not
always agree in all details, I was always very happy to know to have
someone who believes in the same ideals and who is effective in promoting
actions towards common goals.
WMF will be a different place without you.
of it from there but once they voted, if they were eligible,
they went into one giant bucket.
James Alexander
Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 2:36 PM, Katie Chan k...@ktchan.info wrote:
On 06/04/2015 18:14, Denny Vrandečić wrote
Hi,
regarding the Wikimedia Foundation elections 2013, I was trying to find a
breakdown of the voters, i.e. how many voted based on which requirements,
i.e. as editors, developers, staff and contractors, and board members, but
I could not find anything.
I would appreciate a pointer to that data.
Forwarding to Wikimedia-l to five context to James' reply. Sorry for
cross-posting.
-- Forwarded message -
From: Denny Vrandečić vrande...@google.com
Date: Wed Oct 29 2014 at 10:56:48 AM
Subject: [Wikidata-l] Birthday gift: Missing Wikipedia links (was Re:
Wikidata turns two
If customers would be signing up for access to the net, and if the ISP
would charge differently whether they access Wikipedia or whether they
access Facebook, yes, that would be a violation of net neutrality.
But in this case we are not talking about providing access to the net. We
are talking
There is a crucial difference: Wikipedia Zero is not a general way to
provide access to the Internet for free, it provides access to parts of
Wikipedia for free through partnering carriers. Wikipedia Zero is not in
violation of net neutrality in the first place, as Wikipedia Zero is not an
Using a rather simple pair like Afrikaans - Dutch or a heavily researched
one like English - Spanish would be giving us a wrong impression of how
this will scale. We should at least add a few random pairs like Yoruba -
Gujarati or Kazakh - Lombard. Most of our 67,000 language pairs that we
will
[Sorry for cross-posting]
Yes, I agree that the OmegaWiki community should be involved in the
discussions, and I pointed GerardM to our proposals whenever and
discussions, using him as a liaison. We also looked and keep looking at the
OmegaWiki data model to see what we are missing.
Our latest
We are keeping notes on Etherpad
http://epl.wikimedia.org/p/WiktionaryAndWikidata
If connectivity allows, you can also try to connect via Hangout or Skype or
IRC. Ping aude or me on #wikimedia-wikidata on IRC.
Cheers,
Denny
2013/8/10 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com
Hello,
On Fri, Aug 9,
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin
2013/8/7 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de
I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to
write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link,
below is the intro to the proposal:
http
to be
included in such a tool
Anders
Denny Vrandečić skrev 2013-08-07 02:20:
I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to
write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link,
below is the intro to the proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/**wiki
an interesting relation to the talk of machine translation
where I
believe we can do a lot very quickly if we limit the vocabulary to be
included in such a tool
Anders
Denny Vrandečić skrev 2013-08-07 02:20:
I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to
write
I have been thinking about this for a while, and now finally managed to
write it down as a proposal. Details are on meta on the following link,
below is the intro to the proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/A_proposal_towards_a_multilingual_Wikipedia
I tried to anticipate some possible
Rui,
if your basic assumption is that Wikipedia will never be a real
encyclopedia because of the lack of diversity among its contributors, I
would like to know of any other encyclopedia that is anywhere close to the
diversity among its contributors that Wikipedia has (just a side-note, the
on preserving this or that article just as
it is?
Rui
On 1 August 2013 22:40, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de
wrote:
Rui,
if your basic assumption is that Wikipedia will never be a real
encyclopedia because of the lack of diversity among its contributors, I
would like
Thank you for the observation.
Is the graph http://i.imgur.com/TfaD99V.png based on actual data? Because
it looks just tad bit too linear to me. (I do not disagree with the
finding, just wondering about the graph itself).
I still would worry, though: our content is increasing linearly, as you
Wait - removing the captchas lead to a decrease of reverted edits in terms
of absolute numbers? Woot? Anyone has an explanation for that?
2013/7/5 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
The recent community initiative with the highest impact I can think of is
surely what Platonides and
Peter, we stand up to big bullies. As big as they get. But in this case, I
cannot see the WTO bullying us. Their terms are very reasonable in my
opinion, and I am grateful to the legal team for handling this situation
this well.
But in this case, we are talking about either changing a
2013/4/25 Brion Vibber bvib...@wikimedia.org
You are blowing my mind, dude. :)
Glad to do hear :)
I suspect this approach won't serve for everything, but it sounds
*awesome*. If we can tie natural-language statements directly to data nodes
(rather than merely annotating vague references
Erik, all,
sorry for the long mail.
Incidentally, I have been thinking in this direction myself for a while,
and I have come to a number of conclusions:
1) the Wikimedia movement can not, in its current state, tackle the problem
of machine translation of arbitrary text from and to all of our
Aubrey,
2013/4/24 Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com
I feel that we could boost a lot the idea of a family of projects, of an
integrated, global, comprehensive approach to knowledge.
Right now, the fact is that Wikipedia both attracts and cannibalizes users
to/from sister projects, which
Orkus was never took over by Google - it was created by Google in the
first place and always operated by them.
2013/3/17 Rand McRanderson therands...@gmail.com
Orkut used to dominate outside US and Europe. Then Google took over,
neglected it and Facebook moved in. Classic big company takes
There is currently a number of things going on re the future of Wiktionary.
There is, for example, the suggestion to adopt OmegaWiki, which could
potentially complicate a Wikibase-Solution in the future (but then again,
structured data is often rather easy to transform):
should. And I do not think that a cross-mailing list discussion like the
current one is the right place, and I do not even know where the right
place is.
So, first question: where should this discussion take place?
Cheers,
Denny
2013/3/11 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
Denny
,
GerardM
On 11 March 2013 15:51, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de
wrote:
Sorry about the wrong link, I meant this IEG proposal:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wiktionary_-_the_way_it_should_be
but as far as I can tell, this one didn't make
As far as I understood the rationale for the narrowing, the idea is not to
safe money but to safe people. By focusing on what the Foundation's tasks
should be and by letting go of the others, you reduce stress on people as
you allow them to concentrate on a smaller set of tasks. Focus brings flow
Just a comment on the discussion:
I would find it refreshing if people were not defending funds that
apply mostly to themselves. I saw, in discussions of the essay,
arguments by researchers saying that more money should go to
researchers, by fellows and want-to-be fellows that the fellowship
rant
If WMF had a Steve Jobs on staff, everyone would hate him for making
decisions without properly consulting the community, for destroying
the community, for reinventing Wikimedia again, for making unpopular
decisions, for making decisions behind close doors, for being an
egomaniac, etc.
Wikidata will still help with the task at hand, but it should be formulated as:
- Translate certain templates, like city templates etc., to the target language
- Provide labels to relevant items on Wikidata in the target language
Simplified this means the template
''City''
Country:
2012/7/31 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de:
Country: {{#getfromwikidata:country}}
And this is just a place holder syntax for now.
___
Wikimedia-l mailing list
Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org
2012/6/26 Risker risker...@gmail.com:
On 25 June 2012 13:56, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Risker risker...@gmail.com wrote:
Excuse me. Just about a month ago, we had a discussion about spreading
out
the times during which office hours would
, Denny Vrandečić wrote:
Hi all,
I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the
Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was
the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that
link to more than one article in another language edition
/6/25 Denny Vrandečić denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de:
Hi all,
I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the
Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was
the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that
link to more than one article
mentioned on the Berlin Hackathon. It
sounds much higher than what my (very scientifically relevant,
obviously) gut feeling tells me. Could you indicate where this number
is coming from?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Denny Vrandečić
denny.vrande...@wikimedia.de wrote:
Ziko,
it does
Hi all,
I ran some analysis last week, to get some numbers out of the
Wikipedia language links. One type of reports that were generated was
the list of all articles in the main namespaces of the Wikipedias that
link to more than one article in another language edition of Wikipedia
(so called
I mentioned Wikipedia Zero in the last few talks that I gave about
Wikidata, and I always got great feedback on that part. I agree with SJ
that this is an amazing initiative that should be known better!
2012/4/29 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com
Wikipedia Zero is starting to get more attention
78 matches
Mail list logo