Wikipedia is now indexed by OneLook.com. I've asked Doug to change the credit from my name to "the Wikipedia project".
Stephen G.
--- Doug Beeferman doug@dougb.com wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 14:35:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Doug Beeferman doug@dougb.com To: Stephen Gilbert canuck_in_korea2002@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Wikipedia/OneLook
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for pointing me to that report page on Wikipedia. It will work for the time being; I configured my OneLook update engine to download the article names monthly using a limit of 1000 articles per fetch, so that amounts to just 80 or so requests per month, which I hope will be a pretty negligible burden on Wikipedia's server(s). You're right that this isn't ideal as an export mechanism. Something like a single XML/RDF feed would be best, I think.
I think Wikipedia makes a great addition to OneLook, especially for its breadth in many categories (famous people, event names, places) that aren't well-covered by conventional online glossaries/dictionaries.
In the import rules I excluded a handful of types of article names that aren't "lexicographic" in the sense that they're not written the way people would look them up. Like "Academy Awards/Visual Effects" or the nodes beginning with "Talk:" or "Image:" There were 61412 terms retained in total.
I've credited you on the dictionary's "info" page on OneLook; let me know if there's some person/entity that is more appropriate to credit.
And by the way, lest I forget to give you the pitch I give to every dictionary provider I talk to -- OneLook might be a useful "fallback" site to reference when Wikipedia users do a search that comes up empty. For example, while "Phil Hartman" produces no article matches on Wikipedia, it does turn up in one of the 804 dictionaries indexed by OneLook, a biographical dictionary. ( See http://www.onelook.com/?w=phil+hartman )
Take care, Doug
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