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> surly they can come up with an UI for the other parts

Those "other parts" is the huge hurdle that I'm referring to, and can't be hand-waved away. There are already tools that can take Wikidata and transform it into human-readable articles [1]

But it's not at all obvious how to build a simple UI for writing completely abstract lambda expressions that take arbitrary data and apply linguistic nuances to produce readable text with correct grammar.

[1] https://reasonator.toolforge.org/

It's not just writing code, it's writing code that needs to be aware of every linguistic nuance of your native language, so that you can coax the data to come out as a human-readable sentence. [1]

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilambda/Examples

This is of course an interesting idea, but it has a number of huge technical hurdles to overcome. Here is the biggest:

Right now, if you want to become an editor of Wikipedia, you simply need to have a passing familiarity with wikitext, and how the syntax of wikitext translates into the final presentation of the article.

However, if you want to become an editor of Abstract Wikipedia, you'd need to have an in-depth knowledge of lambda calculus, and possibly a Ph.D. in linguistics. Without a quantum leap in editing technology and accessibility for beginners, there's little hope for this to gain any traction.