G'day folks,
Google has announced that it has developed a custom search skin for Wikipedia.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/contextual-search-within-wikipedia.ht...
We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csewiki that makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wikipedia. Wikipedia allows users to register and personalize their Wikipedia environment via the configuration of options and the use of styles or skins. Just log in to Wikipedia, enable the Custom Search skinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csewiki and you'll have quick access to relevant Google Custom Search results from Wikipedia. With the Custom Search skin, your search results are conveniently placed inline on the page. After you've reviewed the results, you can dismiss them and return to the current article of interest without having to switch to a different tab on your browser; you can access the relevant Wikipedia articles right within the Wikipedia interface.
The Custom Search skin also features contextual search — searching across different sets of pages as you navigate Wikipedia. For Wikipedia pages with a lot of information and links, contextual search lets you limit your search to only those Wikipedia pages that are linked from the current article, focusing the results on the topic of the article. So, in addition to getting all matching Wikipedia articles, you can quickly drill down to contextually relevant results using the Linked Wikipedia Pages tab.
For example, searching for [sequence] from a Wikipedia page on DNAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA provides a list of relevant results about DNA sequences and DNA sequence alignment, instead of the many pages about sequenceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_%28disambiguation%29 (in mathematics, poetry, music, games, etc.) that aren't relevant. Similarly, searching within the DNA page for [bonds] gives you results in chemistry and biochemistry, instead of other information about financial instruments and social sciences. This will help you perform more directed research, often with shorter queries, and get to relevant Wikipedia articles faster.
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Great! Daniel Brandt will love it :D
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Keith Old keithold@gmail.com wrote:
G'day folks,
Google has announced that it has developed a custom search skin for Wikipedia.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/contextual-search-within-wikipedia.ht...
We are excited to announce that we've built a Custom Search Wikipedia skinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csewiki that makes it easier for you to complete your research on Wikipedia. Wikipedia allows users to register and personalize their Wikipedia environment via the configuration of options and the use of styles or skins. Just log in to Wikipedia, enable the Custom Search skinhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Csewiki and you'll have quick access to relevant Google Custom Search results from Wikipedia. With the Custom Search skin, your search results are conveniently placed inline on the page. After you've reviewed the results, you can dismiss them and return to the current article of interest without having to switch to a different tab on your browser; you can access the relevant Wikipedia articles right within the Wikipedia interface.
The Custom Search skin also features contextual search — searching across different sets of pages as you navigate Wikipedia. For Wikipedia pages with a lot of information and links, contextual search lets you limit your search to only those Wikipedia pages that are linked from the current article, focusing the results on the topic of the article. So, in addition to getting all matching Wikipedia articles, you can quickly drill down to contextually relevant results using the Linked Wikipedia Pages tab.
For example, searching for [sequence] from a Wikipedia page on DNAhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA provides a list of relevant results about DNA sequences and DNA sequence alignment, instead of the many pages about sequenceshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_%28disambiguation%29 (in mathematics, poetry, music, games, etc.) that aren't relevant. Similarly, searching within the DNA page for [bonds] gives you results in chemistry and biochemistry, instead of other information about financial instruments and social sciences. This will help you perform more directed research, often with shorter queries, and get to relevant Wikipedia articles faster.
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From that blog, I see that the project caries the signatures of both
Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search at Google, and Mathias Schindler, WMF .
I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent role account user page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project, or an official WMF project?
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
I predict role account drama...
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2009/10/27 David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com:
I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent role account user page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project, or an official WMF project?
Mathias has been working with Google on this as a community volunteer; the byline is a bit confusing in that regard. As I noted in our blog post, this is not an official WMF undertaking.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2009/10/26/google-experiments-with-new-ways-to-sea...
2009/10/28 David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com:
From that blog, I see that the project caries the signatures of both Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search at Google, and Mathias Schindler, WMF .
I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent role account user page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project, or an official WMF project?
With the privacy issues it's somewhat questionable if it is something that should be supported.
In this particular case , the privacy problem is inseparable from the application--the system relies upon google's Personalized search in order to work in the first place. Now, I must admit I do have their personalized search enabled on my own personal computer, and have done so despite the privacy considerations & the strange places I sometimes go for a WP article, because it works. The longer I've had it there, the better it works--as it should be. I use them for even my confidential email, and I think most of us do. I have made what i admit is the hazardous choice of judging the benefits of their system to be worth the possible exposure to , say, a possible future totalitarian government.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
2009/10/28 David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com:
From that blog, I see that the project caries the signatures of both Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search at Google, and Mathias Schindler, WMF .
I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent role account user page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project, or an official WMF project?
With the privacy issues it's somewhat questionable if it is something that should be supported.
-- geni
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:51 AM, David Goodman dgoodmanny@gmail.com wrote:
From that blog, I see that the project caries the signatures of both Rajat Mukherjee, Group Product Manager, Search at Google, and Mathias Schindler, WMF .
I am a little puzzled a tthe way it is implemented, from an apparent role account user page. Is Mathias doing this as a personal project, or an official WMF projectt.
Hi David,
this project is entirely done as a volunteer effort on my side.
Speaking of volunteer work, I would like to thank everybody in contributing feedback and code to the feature. The page has moved to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Google_Custom_Search based on feedback from the talk page.
The syntax to include the Google CSE tool has been simplified, it is now down to one line of code.
All in all, I am extremely pleased about the reception this project has received. It is a test case on how flexible users can change their own user interface and integrate more feature. I would like to encourage everyone to experiment and to share his or her experiences and code.
Mathias