Wikidata founder floats idea for balanced multilingual Wikipedia

mood · Jul 5, 2020

Wikidata founder floats idea for balanced multilingual Wikipedia
April 13, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/wikidata-founder-floats-idea-for-balanced-multilingual-wikipedia

One of the biggest problems for Wikipedia, according to Denny Vrandečić, founder of Wikidata, is making quality articles available across the sheer number of languages supported by the online encyclopedia.

In a new paper, Vrandečić has floated a new idea that would allow contributors to create content using abstract notation which could then be translated to different natural languages, balancing out content more evenly, no matter the language you speak.
The 22-page paper goes into a fair bit of detail about the proposal. The basic idea of how the system would work is by giving things in the sentence you want to write a Wikidata identifier.

While the concept is nascent, realising it would see a major boost to the available content across the different languages of Wikipedia.
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arXiv: Architecture for a multilingual Wikipedia

mood · Jul 5, 2020

New wiki project - Abstract Wikipedia - will boost content across languages
July 2, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/new-wik...kipedia---will-boost-content-across-languages

Wikimedia Foundation has announced a new project that proposes a new way to generate encyclopedic content in a multilingual fashion. Abstract Wikipedia will allow more contributors and more readers to share more knowledge in more languages.
This is the foundation’s first new project in over seven years.

The project was first proposed in a 22-page paper by Denny Vrandečić, founder of Wikidata, earlier this year.
The goal of the project was that all versions of Wikipedia, no matter the language, would be closer to the scale of the English Wikipedia in terms of content.

Now that project has been approved, it will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. Vrandečić will join the Foundation as a staff member and lead this initiative.
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Abstract Wikipedia intends to look and feel like a Wikipedia, but build on the powerful, language-independent conceptual models of Wikidata. The official announcement does mention that this is an experimental project and may offer some communities great advantages while other communities may engage less.
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mood · Nov 17, 2021

Wikimedia's Content Translation tool has helped create a million articles
November 17, 2021
https://www.neowin.net/news/wikimed...on-tool-has-helped-create-a-million-articles/

The Wikimedia Foundation, which runs Wikipedia, is celebrating the fact that its Content Translation tool, which was launched in 2014, has helped to create more than one million new articles on the internet encyclopedia. While most readers will be more familiar with the English-language Wikipedia, which is by far the biggest, other language versions of the site suffer from a smaller catalogue of articles which can hurt access to knowledge for non-English speakers.

To help bridge the knowledge gap, Wikimedia launched the Content Translation tool in 2014 with support for translating articles from Spanish to Catalan. Over the years, the tool has evolved to become available across 90 editions of Wikipedia as a stable release while it’s available as a beta product for Wikipedia’s other languages.
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Last year, Denny Vrandečić, the founder of Wikidata, published a 22-page paper about a project called Abstract Wikipedia that uses abstract notation to help translate content into other languages. According to Wikimedia, Abstract Wikipedia will be integrated with Wikipedia from 2023.
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