[Wikimedia-l] New Google interface to Wikipedia

[James Alexander]

What Oliver said,

They are really interested in finding ways to feed back into the ecosystem
where there algorithm says that there is a mistake (interlanguage links
pointing to two different subjects, contradictions between article and
infobox etc). They are probably going to reach out to wikidata (and Lydia)
first for the interlanguage links but it would be great to have some
community members helping to shepherd them and find good uses for their
data. Oliver's your man! <runs away>



James Alexander
Legal and Community Advocacy
Wikimedia Foundation
(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 7:26 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> 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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