Taipei Times, a leading English-language daily in Taiwan, recently (I think) added a function that allows on-line readers to "Wikipedia-ize" a number of pre-selected keywords in its articles. The keywords do not necessarily correspond to existing en: articles. I have not seen an explanation posted regarding the thinking or motivation behind it (not being a regular reader), but it would seem to be a push to have its readers engage Wikipedia, perhaps conveniently incorporating or citing the paper's contents along the way. For an example see http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2005/03/14/2003246212 (link labeled "Wikipedia" on the right).
Their algorithm seems to be to link all capitalized words, except at the beginning of a sentence.
Andre Engels
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:38:56 -0500, Henry Tan-Tenn share2002nov@lomaji.com wrote:
Taipei Times, a leading English-language daily in Taiwan, recently (I think) added a function that allows on-line readers to "Wikipedia-ize" a number of pre-selected keywords in its articles. The keywords do not necessarily correspond to existing en: articles. I have not seen an explanation posted regarding the thinking or motivation behind it (not being a regular reader), but it would seem to be a push to have its readers engage Wikipedia, perhaps conveniently incorporating or citing the paper's contents along the way. For an example see http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2005/03/14/2003246212 (link labeled "Wikipedia" on the right).
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:27:01 +0100, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
Their algorithm seems to be to link all capitalized words, except at the beginning of a sentence.
Andre Engels
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:38:56 -0500, Henry Tan-Tenn share2002nov@lomaji.com wrote:
Taipei Times, a leading English-language daily in Taiwan, recently (I think) added a function that allows on-line readers to "Wikipedia-ize" a number of pre-selected keywords in its articles. The keywords do not
Not so different from the Maglenski Wikiproxy (though it doesn't look like the BBC adopted this as an official add-on): http://www.whitelabel.org/wp/wikiproxy.php
Do any wikipedian/bloggers use the related bookmarklet? http://scribbling.net/wikipedizetext
SJ
Andre Engels ti 2005/3/14 ChS 04:27 sia-kong:
Their algorithm seems to be to link all capitalized words, except at the beginning of a sentence.
I see patterns like "...but Chief [[Cabinet]] Secretary [[Hiroyuki Hosoda]]...", so it seems to be a bit more than that. In any case the feature isn't Earth-chattering but it's worth seeing if more mainstream media will similarly interface with Wikipedia (and Wikinews), and whether that has impact on Wikipedia's content development.
Linking to all uncommon capitalized words leads to some strange links like [[Urging Beijing]] and to non-notable persons, but most links lead to something.
Fred
From: Henry Tan-Tenn share2002nov@lomaji.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:38:56 -0500 To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Newspaper links article keywords to Wikipedia
Taipei Times, a leading English-language daily in Taiwan, recently (I think) added a function that allows on-line readers to "Wikipedia-ize" a number of pre-selected keywords in its articles. The keywords do not necessarily correspond to existing en: articles. I have not seen an explanation posted regarding the thinking or motivation behind it (not being a regular reader), but it would seem to be a push to have its readers engage Wikipedia, perhaps conveniently incorporating or citing the paper's contents along the way. For an example see http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/archives/2005/03/14/2003246212 (link labeled "Wikipedia" on the right).
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