Hi Everyone, Just a reminder that this talk will take place in 30 minutes. Hope to see you there!
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:21 AM Sarah R <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > It's time for Wikimedia Tech Talks 2020 Episode 5! *This talk will take > place next Wednesday on 22 July 2020 at 17:00 UTC.* > > *Title:* Beyond Wikipedia - Knowledge that even a computer can understand > > *Speaker*: Zbyszko Papierski, Senior Software Engineer > <https://wikimediafoundation.org/profile/zbyszko-papierski/> > > *Summary:* Everybody knows what Wikipedia is, right? This magnificent > source of knowledge has been helping countless people with their everyday > lives for nearly two decades. Whether you want to know how to calculate the > circumference of the circle, whether hyenas are pack animals or what really > happened to the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia’s got your back. > > Well, unless you happen to be a computer. > > One issue with Wikipedia is that knowledge there isn’t very well > structured. There are links to other pages, sure - but unless you actually > understand the text, you won’t understand what the link actually is. This > is, of course, a field day for AI/ML experts - and there are a lot of > people already scavenging Wikipedia for any meaningful relations. > Fortunately, this is not the only way. > > Enter Wikidata - Wikipedia’s younger sister. Wikidata is also a source of > knowledge curated and provided by a community of volunteers but presented > in a relational graph format. Structuring the knowledge has huge > ramifications - it not only makes it easier to digest by software but also > allows you to infer new knowledge. > > There are different ways for developers to interact with Wikidata, but > we’ll focus on Wikidata Query Service - a service my team is responsible > for. It provides a queryable interface - using an RDF graph language called > SPARQL (not to be confused with a hundred other things in IT with “spark” > in the name). > > Let’s do some discovery! > > *The link to the Youtube Livestream can be found here: * > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNNy8ALGjaE > > During the live talk, you are invited to join the discussion on IRC at > #wikimedia-office > > You can browse past Tech Talks here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Tech_talks > > If you are interested in giving your own tech talk, you can learn more > here: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Calendar/How_to_schedule_an_event#Tech_talks > > Note: This is a public talk. Feel free to distribute through appropriate > email and social channels! > > Kindly, > > Sarah R. Rodlund > Senior Technical Writer, Developer Advocacy > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy> > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
