On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:47 AM, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/05/2008, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
This might not be news but it was new to me. Microsoft has developed a special portal for searching for health information for its new "Live Search": https://health.live.com/, via http://www.healthvault.com/.
When you search the web through this portal, Wikipedia articles are prominently featured, along with other encyclopedic content from other sources, in their own section called "articles". For instance, run a search on "cough" at https://health.live.com; an excerpt of [[cough]] comes up. The links are live back to en:wp but the article itself is cached by Microsoft.
I was told that they had a person (along with scripts) to go though to pick out the relevant articles to load up; articles with cleanup tags were rejected, though no quality or editorial control was done. Apparently there is no provision for updating the articles over time, however. For the cough example above, the version used by MS seems to be from early January (around January 1) and includes a rather questionable paragraph that was subsequently reverted.
Particularly worrying for health content, perhaps....
-- phoebe
ok, it would surely be an issue for MS and definately not for this list. Unless you have problems with the current GFDL then this is mute. Yes I would prefer a web 2.0 enablement but otherwise they are mirroring a stable version. Flagged revision will make this kind of notice obsolete. If blog notation be true Wikipedians suffer from an inordinate number of illnesses compared to the general web 2.0 community. {{fact}}. Flagged revision will most certainly keep an eye on coughs and childhood illness.
mike
Sorry, to be clear -- I wasn't suggesting that it was our problem. My problems with the GFDL are not with the reuse clauses :) I just thought it was an interesting example of reuse, from a particularly notable source.
-- phoebe