intro + lexipedia project

[Anson Parker]

Hi folks — I enjoyed attending the meeting last week (thanks again to Lane Rasberry for recommending the group).

I have a project working with UVA's School of Data Science that involves mapping Wikipedia's dispute resolution system. We're collecting data from across the full lifecycle — talk pages, DRN, ANI, ArbCom — and comparing how disputes actually move through the system versus how policy documents say they should.

The core idea is that governance procedures can be formally modeled. 

This connects to a broader project called Lexipedia (lexipedia.xyz) — an open-source encyclopedia of formal process models using BPMN, with concepts linked to Wikidata. Wikipedia's governance system is our first conformance checking case study.

I think there's overlap with AI-BRIDGES, especially:

• we're linking process model concepts to Wikidata entities and trying to make jurisdictional context explicit. The same governance concept (say, "dispute resolution" or "consensus") means structurally different things in different institutional contexts, and that variation should be captured in the linked data.
• explore applying deontic logic concepts (obligation, permission, prohibition) to Wikidata content mappings — enriching the ontologies so that when a process model references a concept, the normative force of that concept in context is part of the structured data, not just implicit. AI could help identify where those deontic annotations are missing or inconsistent across related entities, and building the models in BPMN provides a visual markup that we hope to attract more engagement from subject matter experts with 

Happy to share the data pipeline, the browser-based explorer we built for browsing cases, or the BPMN & petri net models. Would love to hear if anyone's working on similar questions.

Anson UVA Library / Lexipedia lexipedia.xyz

[Ismael Olea]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 4:26 PM Anson Parker <ansond...@gmail.com> wrote:

The core idea is that governance procedures can be formally modeled. 

This is excellent. 

This connects to a broader project called Lexipedia (lexipedia.xyz) — an open-source encyclopedia of formal process models using BPMN, with concepts linked to Wikidata. Wikipedia's governance system is our first conformance checking case study.

This Lexipedia idea is also exciting. I have a question: have you tried somehow to model BPMN using a knowledge graph? 

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Ismael.

[Shani Evenstein Sigalov]

Anson, it was great getting to know you in the first meeting, and thanks for sharing additional details about your project. 

It indeed sounds very interesting. 

In addition to what Ismael asked, curious whether you've considered a Wikibase for it, if the focus is linking ideas, or you want an encyclopedic-type content? 

Also, is AI incorporated in any way into the process?

Best,

Shani.