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
Anthere wrote:
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?)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2co...
Also working on google
Web definitions for capital of france Paris: the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn - Definition in context
Mathias Schindler a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
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?)
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2co...
Also working on google
Web definitions for capital of france Paris: the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn - Definition in context
No, it is not the same.
I could not find the definition of a shortcut in english. I only found it in french. http://fr.search.yahoo.com/info/fr/shortcuts.html
but doing a search on Belgique,
compare http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?p=belgique&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&fl=...
and
http://www.google.fr/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&c2coff=1&...
Ant
Mathias wrote:
Also working on google
Anthere wrote:
No, it is not the same. compare http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?p=belgique&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&fl=... and http://www.google.fr/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&c2coff=1&...
On Google, you need to include "define:" in your search.
See http://www.google.fr/search?q=define:belgique or http://www.google.fr/search?q=define:belgium.
Yahoo has the advantage of showing these shortcuts for normal searches, not only "define" ones.
Angela.
Mathias Schindler wrote:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2co...
Ah, but if you type just "capital France", you get this above the first search result:
France Capital: Paris
For some countries, it has even more information than just the capital:
Tuvalu Capital: Funafuti; note - administrative offices are located in Vaiaku Village on Fongafale Islet
Netherlands Capital: Amsterdam; The Hague is the seat of government
Timwi
Anthere wrote:
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.
Anthere is too modeset to thank herself of course so I will. She is the person responsible for these good things happening with the Shortcuts. Her work in talking to the Yahoo.fr people about it caused it to spread throughout Yahoo as a concept and it will be in many many other languages soon as a result.
--Jimbo
I thank you to say this Jimbo, though I think I did not make directly a lot. Stéphane and Caroline did a lot.
However, I might say I find very unfair that half of the people who worked on a deal are cited.
I think it would have been fair (in particular since the implication of Yahoo France was not mentionned in the english press release) that Stéphane Gigandet post on Yahoo blog be mentionned in the site announcement made on the english wikipedia.
This is not the case.
I think it is unfortunate we are selective in the information we give.
Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
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.
Anthere is too modeset to thank herself of course so I will. She is the person responsible for these good things happening with the Shortcuts. Her work in talking to the Yahoo.fr people about it caused it to spread throughout Yahoo as a concept and it will be in many many other languages soon as a result.
--Jimbo
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