On 08/16/2014 04:09 AM, Chad wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> *Artificially intelligent consumers of Wikimedia content? >> >> I would be interested in hearing others' thoughts. >> >> > Not thinking big enough, although AI is close to the mark. We > should work on biological implants. Why use an app? Or a > smart car? With a biological implant in the brain you wouldn't > even have to *look things up* on wiki, you'd just *know them > to be true* > > What could possibly go wrong? > > -Chad
INCREDIBLY OFFTOPIC: In 2011 I gave a talk called "Learn Tech Management in 45 Minutes" that included an idea like this as an example! http://opensourcebridge.org/wiki/2011/Learn_Tech_Management_In_45_Minutes#Persuading_people This is also a talk in which I talk about the Drake equation, Betamax, Max Weber, my older sister, and the S-curve of innovation, quote from the Communist Manifesto, and constantly refer to executives as "suits". The transcript still makes me laugh so you might like it too. BACK ON TOPIC: So, one reason we have an Individual Engagement Grants program https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-learn is to support innovative approaches to solving key problems for the Wikimedia movement. So go forth and innovate! (Next IEG round has a 30 September deadline for proposals.) I am enspoused to a science fiction writer. Just now we brainstormed a bunch of ideas: Browser plugins, wearables, weekly call-in radio shows/editathons about particular topics (ask an expert for info that's missing and add it to articles), Twitter bots that remind people they can edit Wikipedia if they link to a Wikipedia page and comment on it, pseudo-AI/expert systems to help give constructive criticism to new editors, distributing hardware to potential users, integrating Wikipedia editing into language classes for more obscure languages, data mining from bibliographies & other primary sources to synthesize stubs for entries that should exist but don't https://github.com/brainwane/missing-from-wikipedia , implementing the Ada Initiative's recommendations http://adainitiative.org/2013/11/wikimedia-diversity-conference/ , support for audio/video chat for dispute resolution and collaboration.... (OFFTOPIC AGAIN: My spouse's novel "Constellation Games" http://constellation.crummy.com/ has a minor character who edits Wikipedia.) OK, maybe I am being rambly and silly right now because I'm about to go on vacation. I'll be offline for a few weeks, back on September 10th. You know what would be great while I'm offline? Offline access to Wikipedia, via a mobile app! (I finally got back ontopic! Yay me!) Best wishes, Sumana Harihareswara _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
