[Foundation-l] Extensive Link Errors related to Proper Names - Needs Fixing

Jeffrey V. Merkey jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com
Sun Apr 1 20:02:00 UTC 2007


Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>On 4/1/07, Jeffrey V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>I have been compiling a machine compiled lexicon created from link and
>>disambiguation pages from the XML dumps.  Oddly, the associations
>>contained in [[ARTICLE_NAME | NAME]] form a comprehesive "real time"
>>thesauraus of common associations used by current English Speakers in
>>Wikipedia, and perhaps comprise the worlds largest and most comprehesive
>>Thesaurus on the planet emedded within the mesh of these links within
>>the dumps.
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>Hey Jeff, Would you mind forwarding me a copy of your extracted data?
>A long time back I extracted the same data using an instrumented copy
>of the mediawiki parser, for the purpose of creating missing redirect
>pages. I didn't save my work, and getting the data from you would save
>me from reinventing the wheel all over again.
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>Thanks.
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I'll post it today at ftp://ftp.wikigadugi.org. It's very useful.

Jeff




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