Re: Re: Re: Re: [Wikipedia-l] 80,000 - Wikipedia-l

29 Oct 2002

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  Anthere wrote:
 ah, a postal code is similar to zipcodes in the
us, or
areacode in England (except those are very very
accurate compared to ours). We have 36 679 communes.  
 [snip]  
 I believe it's probably very similar in the
usa. But
that means if you put
78000 : it is Versailles. You could have a nice
article on Versailles maybe ?
But 78001 is also Versailles, so what do you put here
?
And in the 38140, there are several villages
concerned...  
 Ah, but then what would we do when the year 38140 comes around?  ;-)
  By then Wikipedia will have long since become the core of a godlike universal AI,

able to disambiguate queries (which will be expressed not as verbal or written 
queries, but as low-level fluctuations in the post-organic brains of individuals) 
instantaneously and precisely.

Disambiguation pages are, of course, just a necessity of imperfect technology.