#abstractwikipedia — Public Fediverse posts

Trop content d'avoir rencontré @jdforrester et @vrandecic à la #Wikimania2026 : la semaine prochaine, on aura probablement enfin la possibilité de générer des articles sur #AbstractWikipedia en #lorrain !

J'ai trop hâte, moi qui avait rencontré ce mur (vraiment pas merci ISO) alors que je voulais que le lorrain fasse partie des premières langues supportées par AbstractWikipedia à son lancement en mars…

🥲 :blobfox_w_:

#wikimania #abstractwikipedia

After exploring Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia to document Pride during Pride Month, I’m now testing another parallel approach: what would a scaled-down, Wikifunctions- and Wikibase-powered Abstract Blog look like?

Glad to share some initial screenshots.

Current goal: generate blog-style content in 8 human languages, inspired by the vision of Abstract Wikipedia.

https://johnsamuel.info/Q315/Q3062/index.html

#lgbt #lgbtqia #wikipedia #abstractwikipedia #wikibase

Wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia have immense, still underexplored potential for smaller-language Wikipedias and multilingual Wiktionary projects.

Here, I show how French conjugation tables can be generated automatically.

#AbstractWikipedia #Wikipedia #Wiktionary

Some weeks ago, I wrote about my experiments with Abstract Wikipedia. Things are advancing.

This year during Pride Month, much of my Wikimedia focus is on Abstract Wikipedia, Wikifunctions, multilinguality, and how we can make knowledge accessible across languages.

More in my latest article. https://medium.com/@jsamwrites/this-pride-month-i-am-focusing-on-abstract-wikipedia-287bbae593c8

#lgbt #lgbtq #pridemonth #wikipedia #wikifunctions #AbstractWikipedia

@vrandecic @temporaerhaus @hogue_456 @wikidata @wikifunctions ouh, was ist denn der aktuelle Status von #abstractwikipedia: fallen da schon mittelgroße, lesbare Artikel raus?

Ich werde nächsten Freitag, 19. Juni 18:30, im @temporaerhaus in #Ulm sein, und wir können uns über #Wikidata #Wikifunctions #AbstractWikipedia und vieles mehr unterhalten!

Danke an @hogue_456 für die Einladung!

cc @wikidata @wikifunctions

The recording of my @iswc_conf keynote is available online:

Wikipedia and the Semantic Web -- 20 years of co-development, and the future

Drawing on the roots of @wikipedia and the Semantic Web, how they influenced each other during the last two decades, leading to
@wikidata and peeking forward to @wikifunctions and Abstract Wikipedia.

#semanticWeb #abstractWikipedia #knowledge #knowledgeGraphs #knowledgerepresentation #wikipedia #wikidata #wikifunctions

https://videolectures.net/videos/iswc2025_nara_vrandecic_wikipedia_future

Last month, I was in Vienna to talk about #Wikipedia and AI (and #Wikidata, #AbstractWikipedia, and the Wikidata Embedding Project). It took me some time, but I have now written down most of my talk there in English. Enjoy the story of the owl 🦉 and the bat🦇

https://blog.johl.io/the-owl-and-the-bat/

#AbstractWikipedia, the project that creates articles from function calls in #Wikifunctions with data from #wikidata in (eventually) any human language is getting to a point where some impressive progress is visible.

Have a look: https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-02-20

Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter 236

A sneak preview of Abstract Wikipedia
with screenshots of the current prototype

Furthermore:
* Recent Changes in the software
* Fresh Functions weekly: 21 new functions

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-02-20

#wikifunctions #AbstractWikipedia #wikipedia

Happy birthday @wikipedia

25 years of Wikipedia -- a decades-long story of language communities growing together

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-01-15

#AbstractWikipedia #Wikipedia #Wikipedia25 #WikipediaDay

Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter 231

* We wish you a happy new Gregorian year!
* Newsletter taking a break
* Next Volunteer’s Corner on 9 February 2026
* Template to Wikifunctions on Wikipedia
* Recent Changes in the software
* Fresh Functions weekly: 51 new Functions

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2025-12-18

#wikifunctions #AbstractWikipedia #Wikipedia

Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter Nr. 229

* And the name is Abstract Wikipedia
* Demo video for two new features: shareable function calls and custom statement component
* Recent Changes in the software
* Wikidata components handling edge-cases better
* New options for retrieving Wikidata entities
* Recording of December Volunteers’ Corner
* Fresh Functions weekly: 58 new Functions

#wikifunctions #abstractwikipedia

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2025-12-04

We are kicking off a wiki that will contain language-independent representations for articles, so that they can fill gaps in existing Wikipedias. We need a name for this wiki!

Wikipedians can suggest and vote on the currently 84 proposals until November 3

Current top contenders
* Wikicore
* Abstract Wikipedia
* Multilingual Wikipedia
* Proto-Wiki
* Wikiabstracts
* Wikiblueprint
* Wikipedia Blueprint
* Wikibridge

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Abstract_Wikipedia_naming_contest

#wikipedia #wikimedia #wikifunctions #abstractwikipedia

I have started blogging again. The blog is still work in progress, but I wrote a story about #AbstractWikipedia, #Wikifunctions, and monsters feasting on cupcakes.

https://johl.io/blog/the-glass-of-milk-and-the-monsters-feast/

WikiLambda, backend for Wikifunctions, rewrites itself from Node.js (!!) to Rust

https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2024-11-01

"Eine #Funktion kann dazu benutzt werden, um eine Frage zu beantworten, die noch niemand auf der Welt je gestellt hat. "

Min 3:06
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=bHy63VOp0RQ
https://youtu.be/bHy63VOp0RQ?si=GlYJBknQztBr57tV&t=186
#function
#wikifunction
#wikipedia
#AbstractWikipedia
#fediLZ
#mathematik

Continuing with the hackernews comments critique:
#AbstractWikipedia is unnessesary because translation:
* Most knowledge in Wikidata doesn't exist as translatable text
* Underrepresented language translation is bad, and could be improved with more NLG material (maybe?)
* Wikifunctions is interesting apart from Abstract Wikipedia, especially if #GlobalTemplates -style functionality could be hacked into it (and why not, it's Turing-complete ^^)

Newsletter 100:
State of Wikifunctions
January 2023

#Wikifunctions #AbstractWikipedia

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/Updates/2023-01-19

#introduction.

I studied #computerScience and #philosophy. My PhD time at the #KIT was on #SemanticWeb topics. Started #Wikidata, then moved to the Bay Area to work for #Google on the #KnowledgeGraph. I was a community elected member of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees.

Currently, working on #Wikifunctions and #AbstractWikipedia at the #Wikimedia Foundation.

Used to play and write for #DasSchwarzeAuge which was big fun. From #Croatia via #Germany.

"#AbstractWikipedia intends to look and feel like a #Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of #Wikidata, with the goal of letting volunteers create and maintain Wikipedia articles across our polyglot Wikimedia world." https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia/July_2020_announcement