Wikilambda:Wikilambda/Goals

This is part of the Wikilambda development plan.

Continues from Wikilambda name.

The project has ambitious primary and a whole set of secondary goals. The primary goals are:

• Allowing more people to read more content in their language
• Allowing more people to contribute content for more readers, and thus increasing the reach of underrepresented contributors

Secondary goals include, but are not limited to:

• Reusable and well-tested natural language generation
• Allowing other Wikimedia communities and external parties to create content in more languages
• Improving communication and knowledge accessibility well beyond the Wikipedia projects
• Develop a novel, much more comprehensive approach to knowledge representation
• Develop a novel approach to represent the result of natural language understanding
• A library of functions
• Allowing to develop and share functions in the user’s native languages, instead of requiring them to learn English first
• Allowing everyone to share in functions and to run them
• Introducing a new form of knowledge asset for a Wikimedia project to manage
• Introducing novel components to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects that allow for interactive features
• Create functions working on top of Wikidata’s knowledge base, thus adding inference to increase the coverage of Wikidata data considerably
• Catalyzing research and development in democratizing coding interfaces
• Enabling scientists and analysts to share and work on models collaboratively
• Share specifications and tests for functions
• The possibility to refer to semantics of functions through well-defined identifiers
• Faster development of new programming languages due to accessing a wider standard library of functions in Wikilambda
• Defining algorithm and approaches for standards and technique descriptions
• Providing access to powerful functions to be integrated in novel machine learning systems

The list is not exhaustive.

Continued in Wikilambda development organization.