We actually hosted a couple of people from the search team who work with Wikipedia at the office the other day. If people are interested in talking to them about this kinda thing, drop me an email and I'll put you in touch.
On 29 September 2013 03:10, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 September 2013 11:02, Anders Wennersten mail@anderswennersten.se wrote:
The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and
I
suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an extract from Wikipedia resides on the right part of search page.
It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook
does.
It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not 100%
as
the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than Wikipedia/commons.
Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have they developed this all by themselves?
Anders [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
I know that I'm rather impressed with my Nexus 7, which nicely speaks back to me aloud, explaining answers to my spoken questions using text from Wikipedia. My Mother, who is in her mid 70's, finds the voice interface intuitive and needed no training before using this as a way to access the 'sum of human knowledge'. :-D
I can't fault the outcome of this development work, it would be interesting to find out how much of the code is reusable or if there are plans for an API so we can piggy-back some interesting apps on it.
Fae
faewik@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm
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