Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

Hi everyone, thank you. I am not sure I deserve all your kind words but I sincerely appreciate them. As I appreciated your support and your partnership these past two years. Leaving is not easy - it really is not. I just feel relieved knowing that our community is wide, is open and, yes, it’s w

Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

Many thanks for your work in these two years, Victoria. You leave the Technology team in much better shape than you found it. For those of you not in the know I think is worth mentioning that in her tenure here Victoria has created the Technical Engagement team to better attend technical contribu

Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

Victoria, I echo Isarra's comment here, it is the Wikimedia community loss to see you part. In particular, I was able to see your leadership in the formation of the Technical Engagement team, consolidating initiatives around volunteer developers and leveraging the work for the communities. Wish y

Re: [Wikitech-l] A difficult goodbye

Sad to see you go - from what I saw as a volunteer, things only improved under your leadership here. We were lucky to have you. All the best. -I On 11/01/2019 00:29, Victoria Coleman wrote: Dear all, I have some difficult news to share. A few months ago and completely out of the blue, an op

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

Felipe, thanks for the kind words. There are a few research projects that use Wikidata to generate parts of Wikipedia articles - see for example https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.06235 which is almost as good as human results and beats templates by far, but only for the first sentence of biographies. L

[Wikitech-l] TechCom Radar

Hi All, Here are the minutes from this week's TechCom meeting: * Discussed New Service Request: Wikidata Termbox SSR the RFC proposes a new service to perform server side rendering of the Wikidata termbox. * Looking at extensions to see how they would

[Wikitech-l] Coming soon to all wikis: beta feature FileExporter

// sorry for cross-posting The FileExporter will soon be released as a beta feature to all wikis. The planned deployment date is January 16. Some background: Files from local wikis should be transferred to Wikimedia Commons if their license allows it. This way, they can be used by all wikis. But

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

An additional note; what Wikipedia urgently needs is a way to create and reuse canned text (aka "templates"), and a way to adapt that text to data from Wikidata. That is mostly just inflection rules, but in some cases it involves grammar rules. To create larger pieces of text is much harder, especi

Re: [Wikitech-l] [Wikidata] [Wikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia in an abstract language

Using an abstract language as an basis for translations have been tried before, and is almost as hard as translating between two common languages. There are two really hard problems, it is the implied references and the cultural context. An artificial language can get rid of the implied references