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vrandecic
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
No. A global encyclopaedia might be global, but does not have to be imperialist, if the control over the content and the ability to contribute to the encyclopaedia is not limited to imperial structures.

Unless you equate "global" with "imperialist", in which case your statement is true by definition. But then everything that is done on a global scale is necessarily imperialist, and then one of the two terms does not seem useful anymore.

Equity can be global.

That would require the equation to be wrong.
vrandecic
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
As planned, with our first scheduled weekly deployment, the JSON object is not being displayed anymore.
vrandecic
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Sine the wiki hasn't been opened for editing yet, there is indeed only one function that has visible implementations (which was added for testing purposed): https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z10000 - all others are built-in and then invisible.

The two implementations are in Python and JavaScript (and rather trivial): https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z10004 https://www.wikifunctions.org/view/en/Z10005
vrandecic
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
This particular work is mostly funded through a set of large restricted donations, not through the general funds.
vrandecic
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
exactly that! I have a design mockup that is quite similar to that.
vrandecic
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
Thanks, that's really helpful to read! The page is still in a very early stage. You are right, the current object section is just confusing, we will remove it.

Maybe a better start to understand what Wikifunctions does - but it is a very simple example too - is this function: https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Z10000

The other functions that you found randomly are currently not well supported.

We are working on it, to make it less confusing. Such feedback is very helpful.
vrandecic
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
I have a half hour YouTube video on that topic, maybe you'll find it interesting, but likely too long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqYBx2gB6vA