AbstractText

Extension to handle multilingual content in MediaWiki. The content is represented in an abstract notation. Language-specific renderers translate the abstract content to natural language.

This is not an officially supported Google product.

This is a prototype. Do not use in a public installation. This prototype has severe security issues.

This prototype is meant as a technology exploration for Wikilambda. Wikilambda is described in the following paper:

• https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.04733

The easiest intro is probably reading the walkthrough.

An alternate implementation for eneyj: graaleneyj

Example

The simplest example for testing this is from the command line. Try it out:

> node eneyj/src/eneyj.js --lang:en 'negate(false)'
true

> node eneyj/src/eneyj.js --lang:en 'subclassification_string_from_n_n_language(n_wikipedia, n_encyclopedia, English)'
Wikipedias are encyclopedias.

> node eneyj/src/eneyj.js --lang:en 'subclassification_string_from_n_n_language(n_wikipedia, n_encyclopedia, German)'
Wikipedien sind Enzyklopädien.

Installation

The canonical and easiest way to run abstracttext is to use docker as described here: docker support

AbstractText is a light-weight wrapper to allow access to eneyj (see there). AbstractText and eneyj are both not very polished. eneyj is the JavaScript code that actually evaluates the the functions. If you want to get a feel for the code, try eneyj from the command line first.

If using Vagrant: Need to add: config.vm.boot_timeout = 600 in line 54 or so in Vagrantfile

Installation: Drop the files in the extensions folder. Also add the files from UniversalLanguageSelector.

Also: vagrant roles enable codeeditor

Add to LocalSettings:

include_once '/vagrant/LocalSettings.php';

$wgCacheEpoch = max( $wgCacheEpoch, gmdate( 'YmdHis' ) );
wfLoadExtension( 'UniversalLanguageSelector' );
wfLoadExtension( 'AbstractText' );

to start:

cd ~/vagrant
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

To load the data that is alreday available:

php mediawiki/maintenance/importTextFiles.php -s "Import data" --prefix "M:" --overwrite abstracttext/eneyj/data/Z*

See logs:

tail /vagrant/logs/mediawiki-wiki-debug.log
grep AbstractText /vagrant/logs/mediawiki-wiki-debug.log | tail

Run tests (currently there are no tests for the extension):

sudo -u www-data hhvm /vagrant/mediawiki/tests/phpunit/phpunit.php --wiki wiki /vagrant/mediawiki/extensions/AbstractText/tests/phpunit/

Run specific test:

sudo -u www-data hhvm /vagrant/mediawiki/tests/phpunit/phpunit.php --wiki wiki --filter testConcatenateCallFallback /vagrant/mediawiki/extensions/AbstractText/tests/phpunit/

(see also the README in eneyj)