I thought they were struggling for money?
Introducing Wikifunctions: first Wikimedia project to launch in a decade creates new forms of knowledge – Wikimedia Foundation
Submitted 11 months ago by lysdexic@programming.dev to programming@programming.dev
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peter@feddit.uk 11 months ago
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They are not struggling for money. In fact they have so much money they don’t know what to do with it.
Kissaki@feddit.de 11 months ago
The work is being supported by grants from Google.org, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Wikimedia Endowment.
Either way they did get some additional funding for this project.
fzz@programming.dev 11 months ago
It’s to learn AI more properly?
Jummit@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I hope it’s going to be used instead of machine learning. Seems much more correct, secure and efficient to me.
dukk@programming.dev 11 months ago
This is fucking cool. I can imagine the many times this could’ve helped me quite a bit, and honestly even if I didn’t find the function I needed I could still probably hack out a decent implementation in whatever language and actually contribute towards this. In 5-10 years, this could be really useful.
NAXLAB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is commenting for engagement boost a thing?
This is incredible and I never could have imagined it. This will democratize the power of programming
can@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Comments impact some of the lemmy sorting algorithms such as active.
mac@programming.dev 11 months ago
Yeah active is currently the default sort in programming.dev until scaled sort comes out and I can push our own version of that to the site so commenting helps the most out of everything here
can@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Default sort is a profile setting too though so many may have overridden that.