Episode 25: Denny Vrandečić

🕑 1 hour 19 minutes Denny Vrandečić is the co-creator of Semantic MediaWiki and the main creator of Wikidata. He also served on the Wikimedia Foundation board from 2015 to 2016. Since 2015, he has been an ontologist at Google, working on the Google Knowledge Graph, among other projects. Links for some of the topics discussed: Serbo-Croatian consonants Markus Krötzsch Between the Brackets episode "My first encyclopedia" (2015 essay by Denny) Wikidata Wikidata statistics South Pole Telescope Wikipedia article (infobox populated via Wikidata) Denny's 2013 essay series on Wikidata design: "Restricting the World" "On truths and lies" "A categorical imperative?" "Toward an abstract Wikipedia" whitepaper "Capturing meaning: Toward an abstract Wikipedia" (condensed version) The Search for the Perfect Language by Umberto Eco Montague semantics Grammatical Framework project Sample Wikidata page (for MediaWiki) Wikidata Query Service Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) Wikibase Wikimedia Foundation blog posts tagged with "Wikibase" Google Knowledge Graph