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.
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