Thanks, Pine, for flagging this up. I came across it a few years ago when I
was thinking of doing something similar---not to detect news in my case,
but simply to highlight what was popular in different language editions as
a way to possibly increase multilingual editing/consumption. My research
went a different direction, but I still think that would be a nice
extension (i.e., lists of trending articles by language/region) that could
alert Wikipedians to "hot/trending" articles in other languages that quite
possibly do not exist in their first language. I think it could be a nice
tie in with the beta translation tool, the MIT Media Lab work on
serendipity, and/or the Omnipedia-related work. I am very open to working
on this idea with others if anyone is interested.
Cheers,
Scott
On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The "Wikipedia live monitor" tool was
designed by Thomas Steiner
<http://research.google.com/pubs/author39477.html>, an engineer of Google
Germany, with the intention of identifying breaking news stories. This tool
was mentioned in the *Signpost *in 2013
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-22/In_the_media>
but this is the first that I can recall seeing it, and it's not in my
mailing list archives so I'm forwarding the links in case list subscribers
are interested.
https://wikipedia-live-monitor.herokuapp.com/
https://twitter.com/wikilivemon
Pine
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