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18 points • by abbe98 • today at 8:09 AM • 8 comments • view on HN

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rustyhancock • today at 10:34 AM

One issue with projects like this just show me what it is on the front page.

Even the featured article section is empty!

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orbital-decay • today at 11:17 AM

Are they trying to reinvent Cyc?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

internet_points • today at 9:10 AM

> Let's follow one example: Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. In Abstract Wikipedia, this might be stored as: Z27243(Q1033, Q138758272, Q6256, Q15, Z27243K5)

Haha that's like John Wilkins' "Real Character, and a Philosophical Language"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ricerca_della_Lingua_Perfet... is a great intro to the weird and wonderful world of abstract/universal/ideal/a priori languages.

zinekeller • today at 10:43 AM

For context, this was proposed way back in 2013 (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia), when machine translation is just plain bad (and LLMs are only known in academic circles). Surprised that AWiki is now active though.

casey2 • today at 9:25 AM

So rather than machine translation... really primitive machine translation with extra steps?

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