Jens Ohlig
Jens Ohlig lives in Berlin, Germany and occasionally elsewhere. But mostly he lives on the Internet. His heart is a Turing machine. Being enthusiastic and excited about all things Free and Open — such as knowledge, data, or software — is kind of a big deal for him.
Beitrag
Collecting and caring for knowledge in a sustainable way to write an online encyclopedia is very solarpunk. Wikipedia is not perfect (most things in life are not), but it's one of the greatest gifts that nerds gave to the world. The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit with its community of volunteers is one of the last big places on the Internet that is not driven by profit.
In this talk I will talk about new forms of knowledge generation. This includes Wikidata, a Wikimedia project that I've been working on for more than 10 years, and a new repository for functions called Wikifunctions. It will all come together in a vision of a Wikipedia that works beyond human languages and creates an Abstract Wikipedia through structured data from Wikidata and functional programming for Natural Language Generation from Wikifunctions.
This will get us closer to a world where everyone can share in the sum of all knowledge.