Philippe Saade
AI project lead at Wikimedia Deutschland focusing on Wikidata and vectorization projects; led the Wikidata Embedding Project to enable semantic search and easier access to Wikidata for open-source AI applications.
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Feb 20, 2026 • 27min
Even GenAI uses Wikipedia as a source
Philippe Saade, AI project lead at Wikimedia Deutschland who led the Wikidata Embedding Project, talks about vectorizing millions of Wikidata items for semantic search. They cover reducing scraping pressure, how items were transformed into searchable text, and combining vector search with SPARQL for discovery and precise queries.
