Abstract Wikipedia is an in-development project of the

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that aims to use

Wikifunctions Wikifunctions is a collaboratively edited catalog of computer functions to enable the creation, modification, and reuse of source code. It is closely related to Abstract Wikipedia, an extension of Wikidata to create a language-independent vers ...

to create a language-independent version of

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using its

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. The overall project was conceived by Denny Vrandečić, the co-founder of

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, in a

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working paper in April 2020, formally proposed in May 2020 (as ''Wikilambda''), and approved by the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees in July 2020 as ''Abstract Wikipedia''. In March 2021, Vrandečić published an overview of the system in the article "Building a Multilingual Wikipedia" in the computer science journal ''

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''.

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