We are pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation and Yahoo! have reached an agreement by which Yahoo will provide hosting capacity to Wikimedia.
Yahoo will dedicate a significant number of servers in one of its Asian facilities for hosting Wikimedia's free content websites.
As of today, Yahoo! will also test the integration of Wikipedia content in its French-language Yahoo! Search shortcuts to be followed by other languages to accommodate users in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the U.S. The shortcuts will show contextually relevant abstracts of Wikipedia articles in response to user queries.
For full details, please see: *Announcement: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support *Press release: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050407/75258.html?.v=1 *Jimbo on the Yahoo! Search blog: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000100.html
Angela
-- Angela Beesley Wikimedia Foundation
Angela a écrit:
For full details, please see: *Announcement: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikimedia_announces_Yahoo_support *Press release: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050407/75258.html?.v=1 *Jimbo on the Yahoo! Search blog: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000100.html
Angela
-- Angela Beesley Wikimedia Foundation
Please, also find the official french announcement http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/La_Foundation_Wikimedia_a...
This announcement is a little bit different from the english one for one reason. The Yahoo announcement is made of two parts. One part is related to the servers, the other to the shortcuts.
The shortcuts was an idea initiated and developped by Yahoo! France. This explain why the shortcuts were first made available today, in french language only. They will be later implemented in other languages. They are currently only tested for countries.
You may find the report on how the whole idea of the shortcuts arose on yahoo blog. http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000099.html
(What is the capital of Guatemala?)
Thank you to Stéphane Gigandet from Yahoo! International Search Engineering and to Caroline Constantin from Yahoo! Search France (as well as to for Christophe Ducamp from CraoWiki) for making this possible.
I would like very much that you read the comment I left on http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000099.html as I think the shortcuts story demonstrate the power of networking.
Ant
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