Submissions:2022/Wikifunctions - a new Wikimedia project

Copy of chat and questions from session

 * Note: Questions will be answered and slides shared, in the coming days.


 * Comments (during presentation):


 * Minh Nguyễn: I can finally stop (ab)using Special:ExpandTemplates and Module:Sandbox to use the ParserFunctions and Lua implementations of these functions. 😅
 * Minh Nguyễn: Good point about map data in Commons. It’s part of one of the workflows for getting interactive maps onto Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_shape_maps_from_OpenStreetMap_data
 * Minh Nguyễn: Some of these checks sound like things Sophox would also be able to answer, but maybe not as elegantly: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/SPARQL_examples
 * Jan Ainali: Yes, but it couldn't answer something like, which of the taxons that are named after a European botanist can you find in Uruguay, which is made possible through Wikidata.
 * Minh Nguyễn: Sophox federates w/ Wikidata for that purpose. There are some examples on that page.
 * Minh Nguyễn: But the syntax isn’t very elegant, so I’m happy about something more integrated.
 * Jan Ainali: Ah, it can federate, nice!
 * Daniel Mietchen: Sophox is great but has too much downtime
 * Minh Nguyễn: Yeah, I look forward to trying out these geodata checks in Wikifunctions. Good to have multiple options.
 * Daniel Case: How timely ... just a few days after the 155th anniversary of her birth 🙂
 * Jess Beutler: Any questions for Denny?


 * Questions:
 * Daniel Mietchen: How can domain experts assist in building/ improving Wikifunctions for their domain?
 * Minh Nguyễn: The examples here show generating output, but what about input? My biggest frustration w/ OSM querying is that the querying languages are too complex. Could Wikifunctions assist in developing natural-language querying for geodata?
 * Jane Darnell: It would be nice to have a function to change "Last, First" to "First Last" and the other way around (if the Wikidata item has family name and given name)
 * Jan Ainali: Could we imagine functions to be usable in a user script?
 * Jane Darnell: It would be nice to have a function to change "Last, First" to "First Last" and the other way around (if the Wikidata item has family name and given name)
 * Jan Ainali: Could we imagine functions to be usable in a user script?
 * Jan Ainali: Could we imagine functions to be usable in a user script?