[WikiEN-l] community hierararchy of the Wikipedia graph

Dmitry Lizorkin lizorkin at ispras.ru
Thu Mar 12 17:19:22 UTC 2009


Thank you for your insightful replies! Automated suggestions for categories 
and generation of 'See also' & soft links sound like very useful 
applications of the observed community structure of Wikipedia. I'll study 
these issues in more detail.

Thank you for your assistance!
Dmitry


> Sounds like it could be used as an automated 'See also' generator -
> one could write a bot that for each article, generates a list of 'top
> 10 related links', check to see whether they are all in the article
> already, and add any missing ones into the See also section (or create
> a new one).
>
> Even more work would be on-the-fly generation of related links - so
> it'd be akin to Everything2's soft links (a feature I miss dearly)




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