Hey, Pe luni, 17 august 2026, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> a scris:
> Hoi, > Sorry for responding late, I had a wonderful holiday with my wife. > > I have read what I find in the link for Wikidata MCP. It brings me > questions but no understanding. The OCLC story made sense to me because it > described a practical application. The method includes AI, it inspired me > to consider a potential similarity to our systems and your response implies > that it is realistic because of the technology that is available in > Wikidata MCP.. > > So when we have the technology what is stopping us from actually applying > this? > If by "us", you mean the WMF, I would speculate there is a mix of not wanting to upset purists with not having resources for a truly scalable use-case and the general slow speed of development. So, the same old non-reasons. If by "us", you mean you, me and the rest of the community: nothing. If whoever is reading this email has a good idea that involves AI and linked data, they should absolutely try it! If you need help, just shout: there are a lot of very cool people already working with or around AI who would love to help or point you in the right direction. For me personally, I don't yet have that cool idea that couldn't be done without AI, but I'm sure I'll get one eventually. And having the infrastructure in place to use Wikidata is a great reassurance. Best, Strainu > > I may have secondary questions, but when it helps us achieve goals that we > can agree upon in a specific application, what is holding us back? > Thanks, > Gerard > > On Sat, 8 Aug 2026 at 21:08, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Gerard, >> >> Have you seen the Wikidata MCP server [2]? It does exactly what you >> describe. >> >> BR, >> Strainu >> >> [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:MCP >> >> În sâm., 8 aug. 2026 la 12:14, Gerard Meijssen via Wikimedia-l < >> [email protected]> a scris: >> >>> Hoi, >>> I read the most wonderful blogpost by the OCLC [1]. For those that do >>> not know, OCLC is a longtime partner of the WMF, it is the worldwide >>> organisation of library organisations, it publishes the VIAF identifiers >>> and they are heavily used in our projects. >>> >>> When you consider the OCLC blogpost, we are in a wonderful position that >>> we have both structured data in list, categories and info boxes in our >>> Wikipedias but also in Wikidata. In addition there is the texts that will >>> typically confirm what it says in the structured data. Having this data >>> enables us to find issues in our data. >>> >>> What I find particularly interesting is that we support more than 300 >>> languages, our AI can be trained AND functional by inferring information >>> from our structured data. This means that we may enrich all our projects >>> particularly where statements have weight because of the references in one >>> language. This will materially improve our inclusivity and our relevance. >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> [1] AI needs context. Linked data provides. >>> <https://blog.oclc.org/next/ai-needs-context-linked-data-provides/> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines >>> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/ >>> hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ >>> AC4UKLAU5JNWJQI3OSGQRKG5T3JHQ3QS/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >>
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