[WikiEN-l] Innovative (re)uses of Wikipedia content

[Oldak Quill]

On 09/04/07, Aude <audevivere at gmail.com> wrote:
> What innovative (re)uses of Wikipedia or Wikimedia content are out there?
>
> I have looked through the Mirrors and forks page, but nothing jumps out at
> me:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Mirrors_and_forks
>
> Also, what potential innovated uses of content might there be?
>
> I'm seeking permission to license images I have of NHL trophies under GFDL
> or compatible license.  I'd like to give them examples or explanation of
> positive benefits of such licensing and reuse of content and the philosophy
> behind it.

One of my favourite reuses of Wikipedia content that is live is
dbpedia (http://dbpedia.org/docs/). The project extracts structured,
semantic information from Wikipedia (so far 91 million triples
(subject-predicate-object expressions)). I'm sure the semantic web has
many more such things in store for Wikipedia.

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Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)