Re: [Wiki-research-l] identifying Wikipedia article topics

-- Maik Anderka Research Group "Knowledge-Based Systems" Department of Computer Science University of Paderborn, Germany http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/ag-klbue Am 17.03.2014 16:21, schrieb Amir E. Aharoni: > Hallo, > > Is there any known easy way to classify Wikipedia articles into a > relatively small number of types? > > By "relatively small" I mean no more than twenty, and by "types" I > mean things that are intuitively clear to readers, for example: > * Biographies > * Articles about scientific phenomena (can be sub-grouped to math, > astronomy, physics, geology, medicine) > * Articles about works of art (paintings, movies, books, records, statues) > * Articles about places > * Articles about historical events > * Articles about biological species > * Articles that mostly present data, such as demography or results of > competitions (sports, elections, game shows) > > There are a few more, but not much. I hope that you get the idea. > > We have categories, but I'm not sure that it's easy to use categories > for such things because of the very loose category structure. For > example, [[Eurovision 2007]] is somewhere under [[Category:Humans]], > even though it's not an article about a human. > > Such information can be useful for study about the types of articles > that different people write. In particular, I thought about it in the > context of analyzing the types of articles that people are translating > now (manually) and will translate in the future using the > ContentTranslation, which is in its early stages of development. > > Thanks, > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > ‪“We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l