Abstract Wikipedia (abstract.wikipedia.org)

> 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.

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

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

Even the featured article section is empty!

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.

Are they trying to reinvent Cyc?

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