Wikifunctions, a new Wikipedia project to automate and standardize information.

peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-09-03

Summary:

"When Vrandečić reviewed how San Francisco was described in each language back in 2019, he noticed that 62 Wikipedia language editions listed an out-of-date mayor. The most egregiously out-of-date instance was the Cebuano Wikipedia, which listed Feinstein as the current mayor of San Francisco. The problem was that the Cebuano language Wikipedia was very out-of-date, which is where Wikidata could have helped. Wikidata allocates items a unique QID; the concept “mayor of San Francisco,” for instance, is Q795295. Different language editions of Wikipedia can then insert Wikidata queries within their articles. That way, if the mayor of San Francisco is updated after an election, one change to the central Wikidata item can update all of the language editions of Wikipedia automatically...."

Link:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/09/wikipedia-human-language-wikifunctions.html

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Tags:

oa.new oa.wikifunctions oa.wikidata oa.wikipedia oa.multilingualism

Date tagged:

09/03/2021, 09:15

Date published:

09/03/2021, 05:15