Take-aways

• The level of detail is interesting — who is the person asking? What are their goals and motivations? How do their goals and motivations differ from a non-programmer?
• "I am trying to understand "Abstract Wikipedia" (please help)"
  • Who are the personas that will want to try and understand AW?
  • Who are the personas that will want to use AW?

Key concepts and terms

• "The Wikifunctions wiki has a broader goal beyond purely linguistic transformations. It will host functions that do any kind of specific calculation on any kind of data."
• "We want to allow the community to take more ownership of the way and the scope of information being rendered into the individual languages"
• "Regarding how that content might then appear within any particular Wikipedia project, there are 3 broad options outlined at Abstract Wikipedia/Components#Extensions to local Wikipedias. But there are also options beyond those 3, such as partial-integration (and partial local-override) at a per-section level. E.g. The Wikipedia article on "Marie Curie" (which only exists in any form in 169 languages today), could have an "Abstract version" shown at a small wiki, but the local editors at that small wiki could be able to override the intro-section and/or the "Life" section, or add a custom "Further reading" section, whilst still retaining the rest of the "abstract version". This should enable readers to get the most possible information (in their language) at any given time, whilst also enabling editors to improve any part of the content at any given time."
• "The Abstract Wikipedia component is separate, but with overlap. Many of the aspects of how it might be implemented still need a lot of discussion."
• Pulled from this statement:
  • "...Abstract Wikipedia 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."
  • "The project will allow volunteers to assemble the fundamentals of an article using words and entities from Wikidata. Because Wikidata uses conceptual models that are meant to be universal across languages, it should be possible to use and extend these building blocks of knowledge to create models for articles that also have universal value. Using code, volunteers will be able to translate these abstract “articles” into their own languages. If successful, this could eventually allow everyone to read about any topic in Wikidata in their own language."

Questions

• Can someone tell me more about what global templates are
• Why is AW not necessarily substituted by Wikidata?
• Link to mockup of Wikifunctions main page