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==SMWCon 2023==
The [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023 3-day program] was fantastic!
One major advancement was the fact that Bernard Krabina opened ties with [https://docs.opencollective.com/help/about/introduction Open Collective] so that individuals and organizations can [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Sponsorship#Donating_money donate money] to the project. ===Task tracking===HalloWelt! combines four extensions they created to make useful task tracking in (Semantic) MediaWiki *[[mw:Extension:SimpleTasks/SMWCon2023|Extension:SimpleTasks]] Tasks are checklist items that can be checked on or off to indicate if the task is open or completed.*[[mw:Extension:Checklists|Extension:Checklists]] Make lists of checkboxes.*[[mw:Extension:DateTimeTools|Extension:DateTimeTools]] Provides date tools in VisualEditor.*[[mw:Extension:AtMentions|Extension:AtMentions]] Easily mention a user, with notification Miriam Schlindwein presented how it's possible to create tasks, assign them to someone, add due dates and how they can be controlled {{#ev:youtube|lYpi08dqBPs|||||t=13336}} ===Realtime integrations with GitLab===See [[GitLab operations]] ===Fixing Wikidata===Yaron Koren gave a great presentation ([https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fixing_Wikidata_-_SMWCon_2023.pdf slides]) called '''[http://wikiworks.com/enhanced-wikibase.html Enhanced Wikibase]''' on how [[Wikibase]] (and therefore Wikidata) are missing features. He showed how he implemented these missing features in a series of developments. One is showcased at [https://wikidatawalkabout.org/ Wikidata Walkabout] - a drill-down and query interface to Wikibase sites; powered by [https://github.com/sahajsk21/Anvesha Anvesha] - a JavaScript library. [https://www.youtube.com/live/lYpi08dqBPs?si=ci0swXD2e-e7qCwy&t=19983 Video presentation] ===Natural Language Queries to Wikidata: A Naive Prototype===[[File:Architecture - Ask Wikidata Notes about SMWCon 2023.png|alt=Application architecture|thumb|architecture]] Robert Timms - Sr. Software Engineer Wikibase Suite, Wikimedia Deutschland gave [https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/SMWCon_Fall_2023/Natural_Language_Queries_to_Wikidata:_A_Na%C3%AFve_Prototype a talk] ([https://github.com/rti/askwikidata code] [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1YgDmcvoXaqnYdRyX5RxewVkeioEJ92nb8Sfb_halBsM slides] [https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1yRZshpNj0kXwY0XuUYw5ziqjw_RffxH- try it]) about querying Wikibase with an LLM. Slides 9-22 go from the application architecture to the 'tada' moment. Not the goal of the talk, but he revealed some of the key drawbacks of using "AI" in the first place: #Outdated information#Prone to hallucinations#No sources (AI doesn't tell you how or why it claims to be authoritative.) This is supposed to be addressed in part by using the <abbr title="Retrieval-Augmented Generation">RAG</abbr> technique. {{Notice|The 'gpt' in ChatGPT stands for "Generative Pre-trained Transformer" - or a fancy way to say "guess". The '''artificial''' intelligence of large language model GPTs '''guess''' what you would say next based on the prompt given and the dataset they are trained on. In OpenAI's own words: "Generative AI models formulate responses by matching patterns or words, while RAG systems retrieve data based on similarity of meaning or semantic searches."}} === Major changes on interfaces of MediaWiki RDBMS library ===https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Database_access
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