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Voice editing of Wikidata as an Alexa skill
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2 out of 5 adults in North America perform daily voice search using Alexa, Siri, Cortana, or Google Assistant. Many of these answers come from Wikipedia or Wikidata, but almost none of those users provide answers back.

This project is to create a proof-of-concept voice editing interface for Wikidata, and by analogy other Wikimedia projects. It will be implemented as an Alexa skill, because that's probably the easiest hackable system. Example interface:

User: "Alexa, ask Wikidata what is the name of George Washington's horse?"

Alexa: "I don't know."

User: "Alexa, tell Wikidata that the name of George Washington's horse is Blueskin."

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EvanProdromou created this task.May 17 2019, 8:07 AM
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EvanProdromou added a comment.May 17 2019, 8:24 AM

Metaphacts created an Alexa skill to query Wikidata. Paper is at https://metaphacts.com/images/PDFs/publications/ISWC2017-Alexa-Ask-Wikidata.pdf .

EvanProdromou added a comment.May 17 2019, 8:41 AM

OK, I jumped in and started this: https://gitlab.com/evanp/alexa-skill-update-wikidata/boards

I'm not sure it's feasible yet. I'm going to try to clear up some risk before diving in.

Aklapper moved this task from Backlog to Projects on the Wikimedia-Hackathon-2019 board.May 17 2019, 9:37 AM
EvanProdromou mentioned this in T223504: ActivityPub facade for Wikimedia users.May 17 2019, 10:18 AM
EvanProdromou mentioned this in T223505: GraphQL reading experience as a one-page Web app.
Lydia_Pintscher added a project: Wikidata.May 19 2019, 5:46 PM
Aklapper removed EvanProdromou as the assignee of this task.May 25 2021, 8:39 PM
Lydia_Pintscher closed this task as Invalid.Jun 4 2021, 12:15 PM
Lydia_Pintscher added a subscriber: Lydia_Pintscher.

THis is not something we're currently pursuing or can spend time on in the next year or two. So I'm closing this for now.

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