Hi Erik
> In order to demonstrate the
capability of our product across an entire
> encyclopaedia we have fully integrated it with Wikipedia. The
advantage for
> Wikipedia users is that each time they view an article from
the
> encyclopedia they are provided with an automatically generated list
of
> related Wikipedia articles.
Hmmm, how is this information more accurate than that provided by
the
"What links here" feature (which enumerates backlinks to an
article)?
InfoWrangler doesn't necessarily provide more "accurate" links
to related material, but it will provide a more thorough set of links
without the author having to physically construct (or maintain)
them.
In the case of the Gawain page in Wikipedia there are three entries in
the "What links here" page (as viewed on the main site, we will
have a look at generating the links for our install). They
are:
- Solar Deity
- Prince Valiant
- King Arthur
By contrast InfoWrangler has listed 20 links (which is a configured
maximum in this demonstration) that are all on topic.
- King Arthur
- Sir Galahad
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Tintagel, Cornwall, England
- Lancelot
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Arthur, Prince of Wales
- Prince Valiant
- Talk:Dubious historical resources
- Arthur of Britain
- Arthurian legend
- Arthur
- Guinevere
- Uther Pendragon
- Round Table
- Literature cycle
- Merlin
- Bodmin Moor
- Holy Grail
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail/Black Knight
The notable inclusion is the third entry "Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight". This doesn't appear in the back links page as
neither author thought to provide a link on the name Sir Gawain.
InfoWrangler generated links are not intended to replace links/back
links, but to complement them.
These links are generated automatically, without the need for any user
input. If I were to add another article related to the topic of Sir
Gawain (and didn't know that the original existed), then InfoWrangler
would notice the association and link the docs up. No human
intervention required. No maintenance issue. No
fore-knowledge required.
This issue has been under discussion recently on the
gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc list in the post "most
excellent!". This post discussed a requirement for a feature
that would show a Wikipedia author, pages related to the one they are
working on. If I am reading that post right, I think that we are
providing that kind of feature.
Incidentally, "What links
here" doesn't work on your site, probably
because the links table has not been generated.
Thanks for pointing that out, we will set it up.
In any case, do you plan to keep up
the site? A Wikipedia mirror would
certainly be nice.
We do intend to keep the demonstration on-line. Making it a proper
mirror to
www.wikipedia.org
is an option, but may require that we upgrade the hardware hosting it (and pay for more band-width as well, depending on traffic). There are also technical issue of synchronisation to be addressed. We are happy to discuss this further.
Regards - Langdon
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