[Wikimedia-l] New Google interface to Wikipedia

[Oliver Keyes]

We actually hosted a couple of people from the search team who work with
Wikipedia at the office the other day. If people are interested in talking
to them about this kinda thing, drop me an email and I'll put you in touch.


On 29 September 2013 03:10, Fæ <faewik at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 29 September 2013 11:02, Anders Wennersten <mail at anderswennersten.se>
> wrote:
> > The number of accesses to Wikipedia has jumped 25-40% since July [1] and
> I
> > suspect it is related to the new interface Google has created where an
> > extract from Wikipedia resides on the right  part of search page.
> >
> > It is very neat feature and I have noticed you get it from the language
> > version you are used to, meaning it is not only using enwp as Facebook
> does.
> > It also uses some intelligent way of doing the extract as it is not 100%
> as
> > the wikiepdiatext and also find illustrations from other sources than
> > Wikipedia/commons.
> >
> > Does anyone know the background and technique/algorithms behind, or have
> > they developed this all by themselves?
> >
> > Anders
> > [1) http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
>
> I know that I'm rather impressed with my Nexus 7, which nicely speaks
> back to me aloud, explaining answers to my spoken questions using text
> from Wikipedia. My Mother, who is in her mid 70's, finds the voice
> interface intuitive and needed no training before using this as a way
> to access the 'sum of human knowledge'. :-D
>
> I can't fault the outcome of this development work, it would be
> interesting to find out how much of the code is reusable or if there
> are plans for an API so we can piggy-back some interesting apps on it.
>
> Fae
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Oliver Keyes
Product Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation