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🧵 How do we model the world?
How do we do it in a way that’s faithful to complexity yet keeps data useful for application builders?
These questions are at the core of ontology work in Wikidata.
If you’ve ever wanted to dive deep into this rabbit hole, but were afraid of what you’d find, the second iteration of the intensive Wikidata ontology course with Peter and Ege might be for you.
🔗 Apply now:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Ontology/Ontology_Course 
Published at
2026-04-01 16:25:11 UTCEvent JSON
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