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
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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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.
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