AI-BRIDGES Open Forum: February meeting
Hosting Philippe Saad & Mathias Schindler
Meeting details
We are excited to launch the AI-BRIDGES Open Forum, a space for shared learning, discussion and collaboration, this coming Friday, Feb 27th, at 15:00 UK time.
Meeting Agenda:
* Intro: AI-BRIDGES and the Open Forum (including format, cadence and actual outputs).
* Presentation 1: Philippe Saad, AI Project Manager at Wikimedia Deutschland.
* Presentation 2: Mathias Schindler, a (long-time) Wikimedian and Senior Manager Developer Policy at GitHub.
* Open discussion and Q & A.
Below are details about the AI-BRIDGES Open Forum meetings and details on how to invite others. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reply either to the group or privately.
Recording of February meetings:
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Meetings are semi-structured, typically featuring short presentations or examples, followed by discussion and exchange.
Participation is open and flexible. Meetings are recorded and shared publicly to support transparency and asynchronous, global engagement
Inviting others
The AI-BRIDGES Open Forum can be joined by anyone who finds these meetings useful. It is supported by a dedicated Google Group, where information is shared and curated. To invite others to the group, simply share the link below, and ask people to click “join”: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-bridges.
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February meeting summary
The recording is available below, as is an AI summary, and here is a link to the playlist that will host all future meetings.
If there are any questions to Philippe or Mathias, please feel free to simply ask in this thread, as well as share any resources or cases you come across that may be of relevance.
Please note: Our next meeting will take place March 27th at 15:00. We will have two presenters in the first hour and the last half hour will be dedicated to presenting how we will be working together on designing the pipeline / workflow for institutional data donation.
Link to calendar invite here.
AI short summary
After a round of introductions, and an intro to AI-BRIDGES and the goals of the Open Forum meetings, the meeting focused on discussing the Wikidata embedding project and its potential applications. Philippe Saade presented the vector database and Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed to improve accessibility of Wikidata through semantic search. The project aims to enable generative AI models to reference Wikidata data, reducing misinformation and amplifying underrepresented knowledge. Participants explored the differences between keyword, Sparkle, and vector searches, as well as the use cases for the MCP. Mathias shared his experience with open data and the impact of generative AI on data manipulation and tool creation. The discussion touched on the challenges and opportunities of using AI to enhance data accessibility and utilization in the Wikimedia ecosystem.
Shani and the AI-BRIDGES team.|