Abstract Wikipedia talk:About

Grammar

The phrase "most populous" doesn't actually need to be hyphenated. I have no idea how to fix this, or indeed if it even needs to be fixed (since the results are "hardcoded" into this page rather than being automatically generated). In any case, I have chosen to not fix it "manually" in the page. Also, the text alludes to another example "with more languages" without actually linking to anything. I assume this was a mistake. - dcljr (talk) 05:39, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

@Dcljr: The actual generated text is more like "Nigeria is the most human population country in Africa.", so the example doesn't work as-is in the first place. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 06:07, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

True. The English adjective is actually linked only to Q2625603 (which I thought was correct but it now links to Q138758272 instead), but the noun is too. The noun is preferred, so selecting that item isn’t working either. I’ll see if I can fix that for this case. GrounderUK (talk) 09:31, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. I’ve fixed the text, having checked that the function would not make the same mistake. As far as I can tell, though, the function is configured only for English and that makes no attempt to find an adjective before deriving the superlative form, so it’s an odd example to choose. GrounderUK (talk) 09:12, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I see there used to be a link on Wikidata and this has now been replaced, so choosing Q138758272 now works for English. GrounderUK (talk) 14:19, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Thoughts on Quality of life tools

This would make a lot of sense if people could write in a language that makes sense to them and what they write is mapped into abstract functions by systems trained to do so. Today that would mean using AI in the best sense, but there's no reason for that to be in conflict with a clarified version of this About page :) The diversity of functions that people will need to express what they have in mind (which will always exceed the strict # of functions that already exist, and need mapping down to the set of shared vetter functions that have been created) and the need to keep up with the fanout of intersections of compositional functions, suggests that relying on people's ability to choose from a dropdown is not going to scale appropriately without assistance. Substring matching to help you see functions whose names happen to include strings that the editor thinks should be in the name will also not scale. But you can still always show people the top k function-families that are close in conceptual space, and help them visualize how different functions would affect what was expressed. (from their natural language describing intent --> into rendered output in their language / other intended languages --> into abstract function calls (perhaps with on-hover annotations explaining how each part of the selection affects the output) Sj (talk) 19:48, 22 March 2026 (UTC)