2026-04-06 21:00 UTC
@johl@mastodon.xyz @simulo@hci.social Semantic similarity is poisoned by orthography at the moment, but Wikidata does offer the promise of a truly vector embedding some time in the future. "Pixelated" would be a good metaphor for what we see now: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Embedding_Project#Evaluating_anglocentrism — this owl might be playing baseball ⚾ with bats 🦇 .
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@a@social.wikimedia.de 2026-04-06 21:06
@johl@mastodon.xyz @simulo@hci.social But what is the semantic mechanization good for in the first place? I want to see my wikis encouraging more of people + people, and there are so many ways to make this happen: more resources going to the authors so they can afford to do this work, more collaborative software features like simultaneous drafting, more diverse modalities and ontologies.