• 3 key components to AW
  • Content: abstraction of an article
  • Constructors: don't understand what these are
  • Renders: translates content into natural language
• Maybe we can make the diagram more understandable...
• "The set of Constructors has to be under control of and be extensible by the community."
• "Each language will grow at its own speed: some languages will have complete Renderers, others will be stale and incomplete." —> how does this fit in with "equitable growth"
• Unique advantages
  • The baseline is low. The first priority is about languages that currently have a small number of articles, many of which are out of date and incomplete.
    1. Bengali
    2. Malayalam
    3. Igbo
    4. Hausa
    5. Dagbani

Questions

• What is an RDF graph?
• What is a triple?
• "The underlying issue is that the current size of the problem is the number of topics multiplied with the number of languages. In the following we suggest a solution that reduces it so that the size of the problem is essentially the number of topics added to the number of languages." —> because we only need one renderer per language? Are we certain it's only one renderer per language?
• I don't understand what a constructor is?

Key terms and concepts

• "The system must be able to deal with the Constructors evolving." — thinking of Wikifunctions and AW as an evolving, living system
• "We propose a project to simultaneously expose that gap, allow to collaborate on closing it, make progress widely visible, and is highly attractive and valuable in its own right: a Wikipedia written in an abstract language to be rendered into any natural language on request."